MOORE AT A GLANCE:
• A safety who started all 37 games played at UCLA and tied for fourth in school history with 14 career interceptions.
• Named a team captain during his final campaign with the Bruins as a junior and received firstteam All-America honors by The Sporting News in addition to first-team All-Pacific-10 Conference accolades for the second consecutive year.
• Led the nation with 10 interceptions as a sophomore in 2009 (second most in Bruins history) and was the co-defensive winner of UCLA’s Henry R. ‘Red’ Sanders Award for Most Valuable Player.
• Started all 12 games in 2008, becoming the first true freshman in seven years to start a season opener on offense or defense for UCLA.
• Lettered four years as a defensive back and wide receiver at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, Calif., where he played in the U.S. Army All-Star Game and was ranked as the No. 2 safety in the country by Scout.com following his senior season.
• Selected by the Broncos in the second round (45th overall) of the 2011 NFL Draft.
Quickly: Moore is first year safety saw action in 15 games (seven starts) and recorded 31 tackles (28 solo), a fumble recovery, two pass breakups and an interception. Moore was selected by the Broncos in the second round (45th overall) in the 2011 NFL Draft.
2011 Season Highlights:
- vs. Oakland (9/12): Recorded four solo stops and recovered a fumble that set up the first score of the game, a Matt Prater field goal, in his NFL debut.
- vs. Cincinnati (9/18): Recorded a solo tackle on a third down in the third quarter forcing Cincinnati to settle for a field goal.
- at Tennessee (9/25): Made his first NFL tackle for loss.
- at Green Bay (10/2): Had his first career pass breakup and interception.
- vs. Chicago (12/11): Had a season-high five tackles.
- vs. New England (12/18): Started at free safety and finished with a pass breakup
2010: Moore started all 12 games at free safety at UCLA and was a first-team All-America selection by The Sporting News in addition to receiving first-team All-Pacific-10 Conference honors... Named a team captain as a junior and was chosen as a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award (nation’s best defensive back) after finishing third on the Bruins with 77 tackles (51 solo) to go along with one interception (42 yds.), four passes defensed and one fumble recovery.
2009: Moore received second-team All-America accolades (Walter Camp, Associated Press) and first-team All-Pac-10 designation after leading the nation with 10 interceptions (79 yds.) as a 13-game starter for the conference’s
second-ranked pass defense (191.2 ypg)... Finished second in the country with 17 passes defensed and totaled 49 tackles (36 solo) to earn UCLA co-Defensive MVP honors.
2008: Moore started all 12 games for the Bruins as a true freshman and received honorable mention All-Pac-10 honors while recording 60 tackles (32 solo) with three interceptions (5 yds.), seven passes defensed and two fumble recoveries... Helped UCLA rank second in the Pac-10 and eighth in the nation in pass defense (167.7 ypg).
HIGH SCHOOL: Moore attended Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, where he lettered four years as a defensive back and wide receiver... Invited to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl after totaling 112 tackles, eight interceptions, 18 passes defensed and three fumble recoveries as a senior... Rated as the second-best safety prospect in the nation by Scout.com.
PERSONAL: Moore majored in sociology at UCLA and was named to the Director’s Honor Roll in Fall 2009... Rahim Shaheed Moore was born on Feb. 11, 1990, in Los Angeles.
