{"id":1127839,"date":"2026-01-10T17:39:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1127839"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:39:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T22:39:34","slug":"the-most-intriguing-recruit-of-the-kirby-moore-era-so-far-is-a-guy-with-nfl-mini-camp-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/the-most-intriguing-recruit-of-the-kirby-moore-era-so-far-is-a-guy-with-nfl-mini-camp-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Intriguing Recruit of the Kirby Moore Era So Far is a Guy With NFL Mini-Camp Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Kirby Moore gained a flurry of transfers and re-recruits this past week, including a quarterback, a Florida receiver, Leo Pulalasi, a DB from Arizona via Stanford, an Oregon State receiver, and a defensive end from Priest River, Idaho (aka the gateway to the wilderness).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But the most interesting pickup is former professional basketball player and NFL mini-camp participant Nathaniel Salmon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p>welcome to the palouse, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natesalmon__?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@natesalmon__<\/a> \ud83d\ude24<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoCougs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoCougs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MadeOfCrimson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MadeOfCrimson<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xa6VofHYik\">pic.twitter.com\/xa6VofHYik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington State Football (@WSUCougarFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSUCougarFB\/status\/2009836605251678395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2026<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/jan\/08\/wsu-lands-commitment-from-nathaniel-salmon-a-pro-b\/\">Greg Woods of The Spokesman-Review<\/a> has all the details, and here\u2019s what stands out to me:<\/p>\n<p>Salmon is from New ZealandHe fist played football way back in\u2026..2024That\u2019s because he used his 6\u20195 body to play professional basketball down underHe only started playing football because he was invited to \u201can NFL academy in Gold Coast,\u201d according to Woods, as a tight end.He used that experience to enter the NFL\u2019s International Player Pathway, which gets kids from outside North America on the NFL radar.After 10 months at IMG Academy, he attended the Los Angeles Chargers\u2019 mini-camp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Despite all of this, he still has four years of eligibility, per the NCAA. Don\u2019t ask me how it\u2019s possible, but it is. Just nod and go along with it. He\u2019s also 21 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">He\u2019s apparently now 6\u20197 and 270 pounds, so we\u2019ll see how long he remains a tight end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And according to Woods, Salmon had offers from Utah, Arizona State, Arizona, Baylor, North Carolina and West Virginia and even visited Utah and Arizona State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Allow me to beat the drum one more time: College athletics is changing in ways many of us couldn\u2019t imagine. It probably feels weird to a lot of us, but change is often weird. Kirby Moore is adapting to the changes, and we\u2019ll see if it pays off.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/most-intriguing-recruit-kirby-moore-173934488.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/most-intriguing-recruit-kirby-moore-173934488.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirby Moore gained a flurry of transfers and re-recruits this past week, including a quarterback, a Florida receiver, Leo Pulalasi, a DB from Arizona via&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1127840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}