UNLV REBELS

Leon Moore

98

Class: Senior Hometown: Las Vegas, Nev. High School: Rancho HS

Height / Weight: 6-5 / 285 Position: DE Birthdate: 10/23/1982 Experience: 3L

UNLV: A physically gifted athlete who looks to live up to his full potential as a senior ... Will battle Isaac Watts for the starting spot at left end ... Squad's second leading returning tackler ... Heads into final season with 11 career sacks, which ranks in school's all-time top 10 ... Adept at disrupting the passing game as he has 10 career passes defended ... Tabbed preseason second team All-MWC by Phil Steele's and third team by Athlon ...One of the most community-minded student-athletes in school history and was the program's 2005 nominee for the AFCA Good Works Team ...

2004: Started all 11 games at one end spot and posted 49 tackles ... His eight tackles for loss included four sacks ... Recovered two fumbles and forced another ... Also broke up three pass attempts ... Named preseason First Team All-MWC by The Sporting News ...

2003: Started four games at left end ... Finished 10th on team with 35 total tackles ... Ranked second with four sacks and stood fifth with seven tackles for loss ... Scooped up a fumble and raced 25 yards for his first career score vs. Toledo ... A tall player who gets into passing lanes and tied for team lead with six pass breakups ... Also forced three fumbles ...

2002: Tabbed Fourth Team Freshman All-America by The Sporting News ... Earned his first Rebel letter by playing in all 12 games on the defensive line ... Finished ninth on team with 39 total tackles ... Emerged to finish third on squad with 11 tackles for loss, which included three sacks ... Also broke up a pass, forced a fumble and blocked a kick ...

2001: Redshirted ...

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2001 graduate of Rancho HS ... A three-sport standout for the Rams ... Lettered thrice at both DE and TE for coach John Engle ... Finished second on the school's career tackles list ... Finished with 130 tackles, 17 sacks and seven pass breakups as a senior ... Named All-Sunrise Division and second team all-state ... Also served as the starting center on the Rams basketball team and was a trackster, competing in shot put, discus, high jump and 110-meter hurdles ...

PERSONAL: Leon Rayvell Moore was born on Oct. 23, 1982, in Chicago ... The son of Dorothea Wrencher and David Moore ... Majoring in hotel administration.

MOORE'S DEFENSIVE STATS
YEAR	UT	AT	TT	TFL-YDS	SACK-YDS	PD
2004	24	25	49	8-37	4-27	3
2003	20	15	35	7-67	4-60	6
2002	15	24	39	11-36	3-23	1
TOTAL	59	64	123	26-140	11-110	10