by Paul Clark
2017 Waterloo (Iowa) West quarterback Devon Moore continues on the road to recovery from injury while also logging a lot of miles on the road to his future academic and football home – Iowa State.
The junior Cyclone verbal commit said he is “75 percent healed” - according to his doctor - from a broken leg injury suffered in October of last year. It not only cost Moore the latter portion of his junior football campaign, but he also sat out the basketball season and is not running track this spring. But he might be seen competing as a Wahawk again before football season rolls around.
“It’s doing a lot better,” Moore said about his injury. “I just went to the doctor on the 5th (of April) and it is good enough to start sprinting and doing cuts on it. No lower body lifts, anything like power cleans or squats or deadlifts, nothing like that. But physically, I can do sprinting and make all the cuts.
“I would have played basketball this year for the varsity team; I was looking to start this year,” he added. “I still might play baseball. Get my leg back in the swing of things, running at full sprint to try to beat out a throw or something.”
Whether or not Moore can play baseball for West this summer remains to be seen. But he’s optimistic about that, as well as about participating in some football-related activities during the summer months.
“I think I’m still going to do like the Elite 11 and challenges like that,” said Moore. “I think I will be able to participate in those. I don’t think it will be (risking) any setback. I’m going to try to go out there and compete with the best and prove that I can still throw the ball even with the leg.”
Since October, Moore has learned what every athlete knows following a serious injury – it’s a mentally and physically demanding process to get back to competition.
“It’s been really long, but it’s nice to see all of the hard working I’ve been putting in trying to get back is finally starting to pay off,” Moore said. “With all the physical therapy and all the time I’ve just kind of been sitting, letting the bone heal up. It’s finally nice to see that it’s starting to take it’s course and heal up like it should.
Moore and his high school coach – who also happens to be his father, Lonnie Moore – have been frequent travelers on U.S. Highway 20 and Interstate 35. Those two roadways make up the L-shaped route from Waterloo to Ames and that’s where the Moores plan to be again this weekend.
“Well I just went down there for a visit and I plan on going up there for the spring game,” Devon Moore said. “I try to talk to at least one of the coaches every day. I talk to Coach Campbell frequently and also Coach (Jim) Hofher and Coach (Mitchell) Moore. We all message back and forth when they can, we always try to stay in contact.”
2017 Waterloo (Iowa) West quarterback Devon Moore continues on the road to recovery from injury while also logging a lot of miles on the road to his future academic and football home – Iowa State.
The junior Cyclone verbal commit said he is “75 percent healed” - according to his doctor - from a broken leg injury suffered in October of last year. It not only cost Moore the latter portion of his junior football campaign, but he also sat out the basketball season and is not running track this spring. But he might be seen competing as a Wahawk again before football season rolls around.
“It’s doing a lot better,” Moore said about his injury. “I just went to the doctor on the 5th (of April) and it is good enough to start sprinting and doing cuts on it. No lower body lifts, anything like power cleans or squats or deadlifts, nothing like that. But physically, I can do sprinting and make all the cuts.
“I would have played basketball this year for the varsity team; I was looking to start this year,” he added. “I still might play baseball. Get my leg back in the swing of things, running at full sprint to try to beat out a throw or something.”
Whether or not Moore can play baseball for West this summer remains to be seen. But he’s optimistic about that, as well as about participating in some football-related activities during the summer months.
“I think I’m still going to do like the Elite 11 and challenges like that,” said Moore. “I think I will be able to participate in those. I don’t think it will be (risking) any setback. I’m going to try to go out there and compete with the best and prove that I can still throw the ball even with the leg.”
Since October, Moore has learned what every athlete knows following a serious injury – it’s a mentally and physically demanding process to get back to competition.
“It’s been really long, but it’s nice to see all of the hard working I’ve been putting in trying to get back is finally starting to pay off,” Moore said. “With all the physical therapy and all the time I’ve just kind of been sitting, letting the bone heal up. It’s finally nice to see that it’s starting to take it’s course and heal up like it should.
Moore and his high school coach – who also happens to be his father, Lonnie Moore – have been frequent travelers on U.S. Highway 20 and Interstate 35. Those two roadways make up the L-shaped route from Waterloo to Ames and that’s where the Moores plan to be again this weekend.
“Well I just went down there for a visit and I plan on going up there for the spring game,” Devon Moore said. “I try to talk to at least one of the coaches every day. I talk to Coach Campbell frequently and also Coach (Jim) Hofher and Coach (Mitchell) Moore. We all message back and forth when they can, we always try to stay in contact.”
