Elijah Moore

Early life

Moore grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and attended Western High School before transferring to St. Thomas Aquinas High School. As a senior, Moore caught 28 passes for 407 yards and five touchdowns and was named an Under Armour All-American. He was rated a four-star recruit and originally committed to play college football at Georgia over 33 other scholarship offers. Moore changed his commitment to Ole Miss in December of his senior year.

College career

As a true freshman at the University of Mississippi, Moore caught 36 passes for 398 yards and two touchdowns. As a sophomore, he led the Rebels with 67 receptions, 850 receiving yards and six touchdown catches. In the 2019 Egg Bowl against Mississippi State, Moore drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for pretending to be a dog urinating in the end zone following a touchdown that drew Ole Miss to within one point. As a result, the extra point attempt went from being a 20-yard attempt to a 35-yard attempt, which was missed as Ole Miss lost 21–20. The loss led Ole Miss to fire head coach Matt Luke.

Moore entered his junior season on the watchlist for the Biletnikoff Award. In the season opener against Florida, Moore caught ten passes for 227 yards, the second most in a game in school history. He set a new school record for receiving yards in a game with 238 while also tying the Ole Miss game records for receptions with 14 and touchdown catches with three on October 31, 2020, in a 54–21 win over Vanderbilt. Moore finished the season with a school-record 86 receptions for 1,193 yards and eight touchdowns in eight games played before opting out before the Rebels' final regular season game in order to begin preparing for the 2021 NFL draft. Moore was named first-team All-SEC and was a consensus first-team All-America selection as well a finalist for the Biletnikoff Award.