Packers give up on drop-plagued Moore

The Green Bay Packers have given up on receiver J’Mon Moore, a fourth-round pick last year who got buried on the depth chart because of inconsistent hands.

The source said the Packers probably would not ask Moore back for the practice squad, which means a potential fresh start for a talented player who could use one.

Moore simply was not ready for prime time in his year-plus with the team. On Family Night as a rookie in 2018, Moore dropped a touchdown pass. A week later, in the preseason opener against Tennessee, Moore dropped two passes. A week after that, he dropped another pass. Because of his horrendous training camp, Moore was a total nonfactor with just two catches and 74 offensive snaps last season. In this year’s preseason opener, he dropped one touchdown pass and barely held onto another.

While he had some good practices, his inability to perform when the lights were on put him behind fellow draft picks Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Equanimeous St. Brown as well as undrafted players Jake Kumerow, Allen Lazard and Darius Shepherd.

“I feel like a lot of people are frustrated with me, and I’d be frustrated, too, especially me knowing what I can do and what they brought me here for,” Moore said during training camp. “It’s God’s plan. It might not be pretty from the star, but I know, when it’s all said and done, it will be what everybody wanted. I’m just trying to take it day by day. I’m trying to grow and, with this process, God’s been teaching me patience and humbling me, and I’m just going to continue to better myself every day.”

Moore put up back-to-back 70-catch seasons at Missouri but also dropped 24 passes during his collegiate career, according to ProFootball Focus. Before the draft, he worked on catching passes with slick gardening gloves. On the practice field, he’s used receiver gloves and gone without gloves.

Nothing worked. Because of his consistent inconsistency, Moore finds himself very much on the roster bubble in a potentially deep receiver corps. He’s been thoroughly outplayed by Jake Kumerow, Allen Lazard and Darrius Shepherd, all of whom went undrafted.

“I think I just kind of worry about things that I shouldn’t even worry about, and my mind just be all over, instead of me just relaxing and slowing the game down like I can,” Moore said. “I kind of just be anticipating too much, being too antsy, too ready to make something happen, instead of letting the game just come to me. So that’s something that I’m working on, and when I can master that skill on this professional level, I’ll be dangerous.”