The topic “Rondale Moore” is currently trending due to the shocking news of his death at the age of 25. Moore, an NFL wide receiver and former college star at Purdue University, was well-known in the sports community. His untimely passing has generated significant search interest, exceeding 1 million searches, as fans and curious individuals look for information surrounding the event.
Recent reports indicate that the cause of Moore’s death is under investigation by the coroner, prompting further inquiries and searches from the public. The uncertainty surrounding the circumstances of his passing has led to increased attention, as many seek to understand the details of this unexpected tragedy.
As news outlets like WLKY and USA Today cover the situation, they provide updates that continue to fuel interest. The combination of Moore’s prominence in the NFL and the unexpected nature of his death contributes to the high search volume, as many sources of information are being sought by those affected by his loss or interested in the story.
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Reportedly suicide, sad
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I was reading on his wiki and saw he had two season ending injuries over the last two years, both in the preseason. And the injuries were almost exactly a year apart. One on August 8th 2024, the other on August 9th 2025. That absolutely can put you in a terrible state of mind on its own
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Hearing Smitty talk about this on the Tyreek Hill segment about rehab, every day he was doing PT, he wanted to stop playing, to quit. It’s an unhealthy place to be mentally.
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Pat McAfee talks about how terrible rehab is, as well. Just grinding and pushing your body to its absolute limit to do what? Do it all again tomorrow. And the next day. And the next day.
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Look at what it did to Andrew Luck! Look what it’s done to Joe Burrow! He went from a bright eyed, young QB phenom who just orchestrated the greatest offense in college history to the state he is today; full on Edgar Allen Poe mode… Constantly rehabbing injuries over and over and over is definitely one of those things most of us casual fans don’t really factor in when we discuss these super athletes… I snapped my arm in half snowboarding and it was an absolutely MISERABLE next few months to a year just trying to get it to baseline again, and that’s not even a LOWER body injury… Rehabbing lower body injuries sounds like a truly hellish experience, especially when you have to do it multiple times, and your entire athletic career depends on you returning to the mobility level you were previously at… It’s pretty gnarly stuff
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When Derek Carr retired everyone was going on about how he must really love the Saints if he was willing to give up millions guaranteed of dollars when he would be out for a full season anyway. And while I’m sure that was some part of it, in interviews he’d always say the more coach-speak version of “I’ve made enough money that I can give up a few mill to never go through NFL rehab again.”
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Yet there’s lots of chatter of Derek coming out of retirement this season, so I’m not really sure what to make of all of that. He might have just wanted out of New Orleans
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As far as rehabbing goes I understand what he was going through. I’ve had 3 gruesome knee injuries in my life and it has ruined me mentally and I’m not even an athlete. Doing all the work rehabbing and pushing through the pain just to have it happen again. It’s awful and I’ve definitely felt like committing suicide myself because of my injuries. The constant and unrelenting pain day in and day out. You can’t escape it. Whether you’re watching tv or going out for a walk, you feel it. There is no peace from pain.
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The worst part of starting PT/ Rehab after my surgery for me and I assume a lot of people, was I was also in opiate withdrawal. For the first month post surgery they give you enough Percocet to not really mind sitting around doing nothing. Then the cast comes off and your feeling everything and off the pills and realize you can’t walk it was such a colossal mind fuck I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for guys that are having multiple surgeries I’m not sure I would have made it.
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That’s so brutal man. I know these guys get paid millions to do their jobs and that helps, but it’s definitely an extremely brutal career path that usually requires many many months of rehab. Hope you’re doing well too bro
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Same. Before I got my knees injured I was running marathons and had a mentality that I could do anything another human could do. Years later, I still can’t run and that mindset is gone. Just depression that I can’t even fucking walk without my knees hurting. This guys livelihood and everything he worked his life for depended on his physical health and he didn’t even get to experience his dream due to injuries.
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I broke my ankle in 3 places when I was 18. I’m 41 and I’m in pain every single day of my life. Probably should have had surgery but the doc said to cast it and rehab and I’d be good. Out of morbid curiosity I looked him up recently and he’s a fucking shoulder specialist. Mans making bank, and he ruined my life. I was in great shape and athletic, and now I limp for a week if I walk more than a mile.
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Might be worth exploring surgery now. Perhaps they can go in and clean stuff up.
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Not really an option, the ankle is fine now, but the tendon that holds my arch up is spaghetti. I have an arch, but it’s in the wrong direction. I have the flattest foot in the world, and at my age now it’s reflecting in back aches and knee aches. Also just randomly shrieking pain where my it just gives out. I’m not looking for sympathy either, Im just bitter and venting. My wife and I have an 18 month old after years of trying, and I just wish my shit wasn’t broken so badly so I could run around with her. Just knowing that doc specializes in shoulders after leaving my fucking my foot and ankle like this kills me. To be fair, he probably thought he was doing the right thing, but I’ve never been in a financial state where I can fix it.
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Rehab is clearly ***brutal*** for professional athletes. They spend their entire lives building up skills to be elite in a particular sport. Getting hurt badly enough to require serious WORK just to be able to do basics – like walking, running, and jumping – has to be especially crazy for them. Andrew Luck’s retirement damn near broke me. Then last summer, I relived many of those same feelings after Tyrese Haliburton tore his Achillies in G7 of the NBA Finals. Right when it happened, I turned the game off & went on a several hour bike ride. Then I was stunned into ignoring all sports until my Colts season tickets forced the issue, and even then I struggled to enjoy myself at games because of what happened over the summer. I know professional athletes are rich and famous – bla bla the whole 9 – but it’s hard not to feel for them. Just as a fan, player injuries get in my head. I cannot imagine just how bad it is to actually be a the hurt professional athlete. \_\_\_ Funny enough, Tyrese Haliburton moved onto my street last summer after the Finals. For a few months, I almost felt guilty every time I passed his house for not helping him rehab. Really bizarre and hard to describe feeling… Thank God I have the bare minimum self awareness/common sense to know that he doesn’t want my help or I might’ve put a really embarrassing letter in his mailbox.
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Damn you live next to a mansion? You must have one yourself lmao. Jokes aside, Andrew Luck at least has a great head on his shoulders. He’s GM of a team, getting (or got already?) masters in education. Guy like that can go many different directions.
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Regarding the house: 1. It’s been in my family since the 1970s, when my late grandpa – a doctor – bought the house. Property values in the area have outpaced inflation & doctor salaries since then. There is no way that a doctor married to a stay at home wife would be able to buy a house in this neighborhood today. Let alone me. I’m definitely in a privileged situation. 2. While the house is on the bigger side, it’s one of the smallest houses left in the neighborhood. People buy perfectly fine houses that are between 3k square feet & 6k square feet for over a million dollars, then tear them down to build 10,000+ square foot monstrosities. It’s insane. 1. The neighbor behind me bought the house & spent 2 years deciding whether to renovate or build new. They tore the existing house & built new because they wanted a bigger backyard. The existing house was too far from the street for their liking. 2. One neighbor on my street just bought the house adjacent to them for $1M, only to tear it down for a garage + basketball/pickleball court. 3. There are two adjacent houses down the street that were in A+ condition & went on the market at around the same time. A billionaire bought each of them for millions, tore down, & combined them into one huge lot that he sold. 4. I think there are only 3 houses on my street that have not been rebuilt or otherwise significantly expanded, and one of them is mine. \_\_\_ Yeah, Andrew has a great head on his shoulders and he was smart to get out before all of those hits started to add up.
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Your property taxes must be brutal.
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it’s like $1400/month & that’s lower than it should be. fukn power bill was somehow $1500 in December though, despite geothermal heat + great insulation + triple pane windows. gotta figure that out. but no mortgage
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Haliburton personally destroyed the Knicks in the ECF. Thats Reggie/Trae shit. I’m sure it’s a difficult journey back, but there’s something to be said about the *will* to do something like that
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I remember Kyle Schwarber talking about this on the 2016 Cubs. Cubs don’t have rehab facilities at home so he tore his ACL and they shipped him to Scottsdale for the season. He said it was miserable. Greatest season in franchise history and he had to watch it from his couch on the other side of the country
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How in the world dont they have rehab facilities at home in Chicago? That’s crazy
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They very well could now, but keep in mind it’s Wrigley Field: they only updated the clubhouse in either 2015/16 thanks to a massive restoration project(there’s a vid on YT that documented the whole process, I as a Cub fan enjoyed it immensely). So could they have built on since that time? I’d sure hope so, but doesn’t take away the insane process to get back to 100%, or in Schwarbs case even 80 to play in the WS.
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Baseball teams don’t really have practice/training facilities like football teams do since they don’t practice. Your practice happens 3 hours before you play and you do that where you play Chicago is especially bad cause they play in a 110 year old stadium in the middle of a city neighborhood. Even with the remodel mentioned they only improved game day experiences for the players
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Retired goalie Roberto Luongo decided to hang it up when he realized that even though he wasn’t *currently* injured, he had to do so much work to get his body game-ready that he just didn’t want to deal with it anymore.
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There was a defensive lineman that said he didn’t get out of bed until Tuesday after every Sunday 1 o’clock game. He laid in bed and pissed in a bottle he was so beat up. He was basically getting in a minor motorcycle crash every week during the season.
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LTIR stuff is different because those guys are basically retired and just need to try a physical every year. Lu wouldn’t even want to do that anymore. How bad must it be that you won’t even do a physical?
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Luongo wasn’t LTIR – he was medically cleared to play – but he needed *so much* physical preparation before every single game that he just said fuck that.
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Reminds me of Forsberg doing everything he could to prepare, insane stuff for his ankles. When he would play he was still GOAT level, but his ankles were held together with rubber bands. So shitty.
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Bobby Lu! Normalize therapy for these dudes
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Honestly its not really something he needed therapy for. He really had a healthy realization that it was getting way too much for him physically to keep a healthy mentality about continuing to play and chose to retire instead. The only thing he really didn’t accomplish as a player was a Cup win and he got one soon after he retired as an executive
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And this is why LeBron is the goat. Dude does insane shit to actually be able to play. It has to fucking suck.
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One of my favorite race car drivers is in his mid 40’s and he’s spoken the amount of workouts he needs to do just to get race ready each week. It’s basically spending 2 days recovering and 2 days prepping.
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After having been in one or two minor collisions it blows my mind how these guys just keep going in nascar and f1
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Part of it has to be how violent football is, and going through all that rehab just for the chance of it happening again. Rondale dealt with that. QB’s Penix and Shough had brutal college careers before getting to the NFL and are lucky to be starting. Football is unforgiving
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Rehab can be mentally devastating for athletes at all levels because a huge part of their identity and daily life is sports. Thinking or knowing you won’t be the same player anymore is always a lingering feeling. It’s bad enough for middle schoolers, I can’t imagine how much worse it is when you’re in the NFL and your livelihood and the goal you’ve worked towards your whole life is at stake.
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I was huge into sports in high school. I was never going D1 or anything but so much of my identity was as an athlete until I had to sit my last two years of high school because of injury. Best thing that every happened to me. I feel for these guys who never see there is more to life than sports.
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Same thing happened to our TE Brevin Jordan these past 2 seasons. I can’t imagine what that puts you through mentally.
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Also klay getting injured in the finals then in the offseason of the next season
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Yeah but now he’s dating Megan the Stallion and living his best life. Proof it always gets better fellas, keep your heads up no matter what you may be going through and you’ll always find yourself thriving again eventually
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This reminds me of Tim Patrick. Same thing, back to back season Enders in preseason. Thought his career might’ve been done, but he was able to revive it with Detroit and Jacksonville
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love that guy
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Yea oftentimes you do hear stories of how lonely and depressing the cycle of rehab and getting hurt again is.
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Yep. I just had a slight meniscus tear and it never got completely right. I did the PT, stretches and rest and still couldn’t jump or run without pain. I will never forget the feeling of when I officially gave up. I kicked the ball hard as shit and just sat and stared at the hoop while crying because this thing I’ve loved since 14 hurts me so much physically and that hurts me so much deeper than the pain. I’m tearing up thinking about it. And I never had real athletic dreams. You just feel like life is robbing you of the only thing you care about.
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I am a spreadsheet monkey, not an athlete, and a high ankle sprain absolutely tanked my mental health last year. I didn’t fully grasp how much movement helped manage my anxiety until I was injured and couldn’t go hiking. If my career depended on my physical abilities, and knowing how small of a window you have to compete in the NFL, that would have been such an added stressor. A year out from “graduating” PT and I’m still not myself. I’m so cautious now, avoiding a lot of activities I would have tried before, because I know just how awful it is to be injured.
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He was 25 man, just an absolute tragedy.
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Puts so much into context as someone a few months younger than he is. Never know what someone is going through. Never know how quickly things can go south R.I.P.
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It feels even sadder once you’re older. I’m only 29, but I look back now and realize just how damn young 25 really is. My gf would say he was just a baby. Reach out to your loved ones, that’s all I can really say. RIP, Rondale.
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It’s extra sad when you’re a bit older because you know how much things can possibly change. You can be a whole different person with a whole different perspective between 25-30. But when you’re that 25 year old, you could feel completely trapped and doomed.
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Devastating. Ended life when it had barely gotten going.
Additional Sources:
WLKY – NFL wide receiver, local stand out Rondale Moore dies at 25
USA Today – Rondale Moore’s cause of death under investigation by coroner
