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Huskies Offer Stockton Speedster from Class of 2026

Kenneth Moore III regularly caught the deep ball in his first season of high school ball.
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Huskies Offer Stockton Speedster from Class of 2026
Huskies Offer Stockton Speedster from Class of 2026

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Stockton is situated on the busy I-5 corridor, 85 miles east of San Francisco, a conduit for high-speed traffic. In this California city of 320,000, you usually can find Kenneth Moore III in the fast lane. 

He's a wide receiver and cornerback from St. Mary's High School with tantalizing speed — who just completed his freshman season. 

Moore gave everyone a glimpse of what he can do last fall when he regularly found open space and left defenders in his wake for a high-powered football team that won its first 10 games before losing 51-50 to Turlock in a footrace, uh, make that the playoffs.

Last week, Kalen DeBoer's University of Washington recruiters offered this extra swift football player a scholarship, giving him six overall. He's also heard from Arizona, California, Oregon State, Northern Alabama, and Washington State.

This past season, the 5-foot-10, 165-pound Moore raced 76 yards to score on a post pattern against Tokay. He caught a 56-yarder on a deep route against Central Catholic and a 55-yarder against Lodi. Again, he was just a ninth-grader.

St. Mary's, which answers to the nickname Rams and wears helmets that resemble the NFL team, tried to cut him loose whenever and however it could.

Moore finished his first of four seasons of high school football with 26 receptions for 506 yards and 5 touchdowns.

While pass-catching was his primary role, he was even more entertaining in running a fly sweep to the left when, all of a sudden, he stopped and reversed direction after getting cut off by the defense, and zipped around the right end for a score.

Moore still has plenty of time to figure out where he's best suited as a football player. St. Mary's also used him as a cornerback near the end of the season and it was defensive-backs coach Juice Brown who made the UW offer to him, so that speed might be used for defense.

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DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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