Rashād was named to the College Football Hall of Fame on May 9, 2007.

He moved to running back, where he was an All-America in 1971 - in the same backfield with quarterback Dan Fouts. Football career Īt Oregon, Rashād played wide receiver and wingback as a sophomore in 1969 and made the all-conference team. He adopted his last name from his Egyptian-American mentor, biochemist Rashad Khalifa, with whom he studied Arabic. A year later, Bobby Moore legally changed his name to Ahmad Rashād, which means 'admirable one led to truth' in Arabic. He had started to study Islam in college. In 1972, Rashād converted from Pentecostalism to Islam. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge, a misdemeanor, in early 1971. ĭuring his junior year in college, Rashād had legal issues in Portland, and was charged with felony theft in November 1970. He played football for the Ducks under head coach Jerry Frei, became a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and majored in elementary education at Oregon. Rashād graduated from Mount Tahoma High School and accepted an athletic scholarship to the University of Oregon in Eugene. He has appeared as a fictionalized version of himself as a television sports personality in several films and television shows, and hosted several non-sports related game shows and reality television shows.īorn Robert Earl Moore in 1949 in Portland, Oregon, he played high school football in Tacoma, Washington.

After being traded to the Buffalo Bills in 1974, and sitting out the 1975 season with a knee injury, he signed with the Seattle Seahawks before the 1976 season, who traded him shortly thereafter to the Minnesota Vikings (1976–1982), where he earned four Pro Bowl selections from 1978 to 1981.įollowing his retirement from football, Rashād transitioned to television, where he worked as a studio analyst, game reporter, and anchor for several sports, notably hosting the National Basketball Association weekly digest shows NBA Inside Stuff ( 1990– 2004) and NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad ( 2005– 2011). After being drafted by the Cardinals, Rashād went back to wide receiver, and played for the Cardinals for two seasons. Recruited out of high school as a wide receiver by the Oregon Ducks, he moved to the running back position and was named to the 1971 College Football All-America Team at that position. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1972 NFL Draft, taken by the St. Ahmad Rashād (born Robert Earl Moore November 19, 1949) is an American sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former professional football player.

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