Aaron Nagler (@aaronnagler.bsky.social)

The Other Guys: Skyy Moore This week in our “The Other Guys” Series, I wanted to go in a slightly different direction. Today, we are going to take a look at someone that has certainly had a disappointing start to his career in the NFL, but hasn't done so in a Packers uniform. The newest addition to the Packers wide receiver room (unless you count Bo Melton’s back and forth positional swaps): Skyy Moore. Moore, signed to Green Bay on March 13th, enters an ideal situation in Green Bay. With the departure of Romeo Doubs and Dontayvion Wicks, the entire wide receiver looks much more streamlined, with a clear separation of roles and responsibilities. Moore fits nicely into this situation, as a backup with versatility across the entire field. Moore is still young enough to fit squarely in with what they already have on the roster. He was a part of the same 2022 draft class as Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs. He’s 25 but will turn 26 during the 2026 season. Moore is a Pennsylvania native who played quarterback and defensive back in high school, and won both offensive and defensive player of the year awards along the way. Moore was not highly recruited out of high school due to his unclear positional status, but wound up converting to a totally new position altogether upon arriving at Western Michigan: wide receiver. It was an instant success, as Moore won a first team All-MAC in his true freshman season. In 2021, Moore ended the season with 1291 yards and 10 touchdowns, while charting an impressive total of only 4 drops on 125 targets. He built a reputation during the draft cycle as a boom-or-bust slot receiver type, with blazing speed but major questions about his size. Moore wound up selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round, the last of an extremely WR heavy round. Others taken in the 2022 second round were: Christian Watson, Wan’Dale Robinson, John Metchie III, Tyquan Thorton, George Pickens, and Alec Pierce. As a rookie, Moore appeared in sixteen games, of which he started three. He would finish the season with only 250 yards, but ended the playoffs that year with a couple of clutch plays. Against the Bengals in the AFC Championship game, Moore returned a punt 29 yards to set up a game winning field goal, and scored his first career touchdown in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. Moore’s 2023 and 2024 seasons were cut short by injuries, and he never quite lived up to his pre-draft hype. On August 21st 2025, Moore was traded from Kansas City to the San Francisco 49ers in a deal that also involved a sixth and seventh round pick swap. The trade was made as the 49ers were devastated by injuries at WR during training camp, with Jacob Cowing, Demarcus Robinson, Brandon Aiyuk and Jordan Watkins all expected to miss time at the start of the season. Even still, Moore finished the season with only 87 yards and no touchdowns. Of course, the real story of Moore’s signing was his impact on the special teams. Up until his trade to San Francisco, Moore had only returned 22 kicks in the NFL, 6 kickoffs and 16 punts (with 20/22 coming in his rookie season). Those numbers exploded in 2025! Moore had the opportunity to return 67 total kicks as a 49er, 37 kickoffs and 30 punts. While none went for a touchdown, he did have a massive 98 yard return in week 11 versus the Cardinals. He averaged an extremely solid 26.9 yards per kickoff return (997 yards total), and 10.2 per punt return (307 yards total). Those numbers blow Green Bay’s averages and total yards out of the water entirely. Now, Moore’s signing perked my ears when it was announced, because it’s actually the second time they’ve done this. Almost literally. A year ago, the Packers signed Mecole Hardman, a second round bust for the Kansas City Chiefs who found his niche in the special teams. But, I hope that is as far as the similarities will go, as Hardman never played for the Packers in the 2025 regular season. For Green Bay to make such a move two years in a row, especially after not following through on it the first time, seems to signal (at least to me) a certain appetite to keep this kind of player around in 2026. Could the Packers have had some regrets in letting Hardman go last year? It’s not hard to imagine, after watching Romeo Doubs serve as the primary punt returner and having a revolving door (at best) at kick return. Then to rub salt in the wound, Hardman ended up as a contributor for the Buffalo Bills in their postseason game against the Broncos. Now, does Moore have anything left as a wide receiver? As I mentioned, he certainly has a better chance than he would have had last year. If I had to guess right now, I think Bo Melton would probably be above Moore in the receiving pecking order, but even the sixth receiver in a modern NFL offense gets plenty of chances to see the field. Savion Williams, who was sixth last year, saw 91 total snaps on offense last year himself, about 40 less than Moore himself had on the Niners last season. Williams could be considered a special case, with MLF’s insistence to get the rookie the football in a number of creative ways. It’s clear that Moore will not be getting that same treatment in 2026. Even so, Moore will get reps. The interesting facet in this discussion comes down to body types. At 5’10” 195lbs, Moore possesses an extremely similar build to Jayden Reed (5' 11” 187lbs) and Matthew Golden (5’11” 191lbs). It’s well known how important a receiver’s blocking ability is to MLF’s offense, and so if you are trying to get too many of these guys onto the field at the same time, are you trading blocking to do that? For what it’s worth, Moore did finish 2025 with a higher run blocking grade than Reed or Golden. Heck, it was even higher than Christian Watson or Savion Williams (only Bo Melton finished with a better run blocking score in 2025, a 77.0 to Moore’s 62.6 grade. When it comes to alignment across the field, I mentioned that Moore is extremely versatile across the field, but I was surprised to find that he’s consistently played in the slot less than he has out wide. In 2025, the ratio was 95 to 32! The ratios are mostly similar from his time in Kansas City as well, his rookie season excepting which was 195-181 in favor of a slot alignment. I'll be extremely interested to see where Green Bay chooses to use him, when he does get a chance to see the field. Of course, this entire article is based on the premise that Moore will actually make the team, something that is not set in stone. We saw this last year with Mecole Hardman, when most of the fanbase (me included) assumed he would make the team for his special teams contributions, but was ultimately cut. Moore’s contract guarantees him absolutely nothing, even with $1 million of his $2.5 million dollar contract guaranteed. We saw the Packers light a million dollars on fire when they cut Brandon McManus a few weeks ago, despite having already awarded McManus a roster bonus back in March. So while I do think it’s more likely than not that Moore makes the team, he’s still got to earn his spot. He’ll have to fend off young options like J Micheal Sturdivent, or potentially even Bo Melton for that spot, depending on how many receivers actually want to keep. I hope Brian Gutekunst’s comments about investing into the special teams can ring true, and perhaps giving new special teams coordinator Cam Achord a dedicated returner is a way to make true on that. 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