University of Colorado Athletics
Tyler Moore Making A Name For Himself In Fall Camp
August 19, 2026 | Football
BOULDER — Every practice inside Colorado's defensive line room comes with a crown.
The game is simple. On every snap, somebody is the first one moving when the ball does. That man gets a point. The points add up all practice, and when it's over, whoever has the most is that day's Get-Off King.
Ask around the room who keeps wearing it, and one name comes back.
"Get-Off King, Tyler Moore," fifth-year defensive lineman Santana Hopper said Tuesday, when asked which teammates had made the biggest jumps since spring.
Moore, a third-year defensive lineman from Locust Grove, Ga., arrived in Boulder by way of Tennessee State and Coastal Carolina, and he's spent fall camp making sure nobody beats him off the ball.
"So every day, we got something called the Get-Off King," said Dante Carter, who works with the defensive line. "If you the first one moving off that ball, getting off that rock, you get a point. So it adds up, and whoever has the most points is the Get-Off King for the day. And T-Mo, he been in the running for winning that thing a lot in fall camp."
At 5-10 and 290 pounds, Moore doesn't look like the prototype. Carter would tell you that's the whole advantage. In a sport where the low man wins, Moore never has to get low.
"Man, since he's been here — T-Mo, get off that rock," Carter said. "So he got two superpowers. I always tell him about getting off the rock and his leverage. He already this tall. So ain't no way he should be taller than somebody 6-3, 6-4. Use your leverage to your advantage."
Pair that natural pad level with the quickest first step in the room — "T-Mo probably is one of the ones with the quickest get-off in the room," Carter said — and you get a player whose name keeps surfacing when teammates talk about who has taken the biggest leap in camp.
It didn't start that way. By Hopper's telling, Moore's first spring in the program was a grind before it was a breakthrough.
"He's impressed me a lot this summer," Hopper said. "It was a rough start for him during the spring, and towards the end of the spring he started getting it together. But when he came back in the summer, it's like he was a whole nother person."
That kind of jump matters in this particular room. Colorado's defensive line is being built on rotation — rep charts, not depth charts, as edge rushers coach George Helow puts it — and daily competition is the currency. In a group where the coaches insist the gap between the top of the rotation and the sixth or seventh man is razor thin, being first off the ball every day is how reps get earned.
For Moore, the daily crown is the proof of concept. For his coach, it's the reward for a player who kept working when the buzz was still only inside the building.
"But man, I'm super excited for him," Carter said, "and proud of him also."
The game is simple. On every snap, somebody is the first one moving when the ball does. That man gets a point. The points add up all practice, and when it's over, whoever has the most is that day's Get-Off King.
Ask around the room who keeps wearing it, and one name comes back.
"Get-Off King, Tyler Moore," fifth-year defensive lineman Santana Hopper said Tuesday, when asked which teammates had made the biggest jumps since spring.
Moore, a third-year defensive lineman from Locust Grove, Ga., arrived in Boulder by way of Tennessee State and Coastal Carolina, and he's spent fall camp making sure nobody beats him off the ball.
"So every day, we got something called the Get-Off King," said Dante Carter, who works with the defensive line. "If you the first one moving off that ball, getting off that rock, you get a point. So it adds up, and whoever has the most points is the Get-Off King for the day. And T-Mo, he been in the running for winning that thing a lot in fall camp."
At 5-10 and 290 pounds, Moore doesn't look like the prototype. Carter would tell you that's the whole advantage. In a sport where the low man wins, Moore never has to get low.
"Man, since he's been here — T-Mo, get off that rock," Carter said. "So he got two superpowers. I always tell him about getting off the rock and his leverage. He already this tall. So ain't no way he should be taller than somebody 6-3, 6-4. Use your leverage to your advantage."
Pair that natural pad level with the quickest first step in the room — "T-Mo probably is one of the ones with the quickest get-off in the room," Carter said — and you get a player whose name keeps surfacing when teammates talk about who has taken the biggest leap in camp.
It didn't start that way. By Hopper's telling, Moore's first spring in the program was a grind before it was a breakthrough.
"He's impressed me a lot this summer," Hopper said. "It was a rough start for him during the spring, and towards the end of the spring he started getting it together. But when he came back in the summer, it's like he was a whole nother person."
That kind of jump matters in this particular room. Colorado's defensive line is being built on rotation — rep charts, not depth charts, as edge rushers coach George Helow puts it — and daily competition is the currency. In a group where the coaches insist the gap between the top of the rotation and the sixth or seventh man is razor thin, being first off the ball every day is how reps get earned.
For Moore, the daily crown is the proof of concept. For his coach, it's the reward for a player who kept working when the buzz was still only inside the building.
"But man, I'm super excited for him," Carter said, "and proud of him also."
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