Roland Moss

Roland Moss
Positions: running back , tight end	Jersey numbers: 38, 40, 44, 86
born on September 20, 1946
Career information
Active : 1969 - 1971
NFL Draft : 1969 / Round: 7 / Pick: 181
College : Toledo
Teams
Baltimore Colts ( 1969 ) Buffalo Bills ( 1970 ) San Diego Chargers ( 1970 ) New England Patriots ( 1971 )
Career statistics
captured passports	11
earned yards	155
Touchdowns	1
Stats at NFL.com
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards
No notable successes

Roland Moss Jr. (* 20th September 1946 in St. Matthews , South Carolina ) is a former American American football poker players in the position of running backs and tight ends . He played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL).

Career

Moss played college football as a running back at the University of Toledo for the Toledo Rockets from 1966 to 1968 . In his junior year, he ran 833 yards , helping the Rockets to gain a championship in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) for the first time . He was elected to the First-Team All-MAC for this. In his senior year, he got 1,145 yards, eleventh best in the country that year, and 84, the second best of the year. He became the first Rockets player to run more than 1,000 yards in one season. He was therefore re - elected to the All-MAC first team. In total, he ran 2,421 yards, the Rockets' best at the time, 32 touchdowns and had eleven games in which he ran for more than 100 yards. For the Rockets' 100th anniversary in 2017, Kennedy was voted 27th on the All-Century Team.

In the joint draft of the NFL and AFL in 1969, Moss was selected in the seventh round as the 181st player by the Baltimore Colts . Before the beginning of the 1970 regular season , Moss was released from the Colts. After brief stints with the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills in the 1970 season , where he also moved to the position of tight end , Moss was signed by the New England Patriots in 1971 . In the game against the Oakland Raiders he caught both the first pass and the first touchdown from Jim Plunkett .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} John Robinson Block (Ed.): 100 Years of Toledo Football . Toledo Blade Company , 2017, ISBN 978-0-692-94023-5 , pp. 61 .
2. ↑ Dave Hackenberg: Golden era for backs at Toledo. The Blade , November 6, 2013, accessed April 6, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 1969 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE / AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DRAFT. Pro Football Hall of Fame , accessed April 6, 2018 . 
4. ^ Moss, Cole Among Colts' Final Cuts . In: Buffalo Courier-Express . September 16, 1970, p. 43 .
5. ^ Jim Baker, Bernard M. Corbett: The Most Memorable Games in Patriots History: The Oral History of a Legendary Team . Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60819-073-7 , pp. 98, 100 f .