Skyy Moore: Career Stats, Bio, and What He Brings to the Green Bay Packers in 2026

Skyy Moore – From Pittsburgh Kid to Two-Time Super Bowl Champion and Green Bay’s New Return Weapon

Skyy Moore signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract with the Green Bay Packers on March 13, 2026. On paper, it’s a modest deal. But the Packers, who finished dead last in the NFL in punt return average in 2025 – a stunning 5.6 yards per return – didn’t bring Moore in to run routes. They brought him in because he averaged 27.5 yards per kickoff return for the San Francisco 49ers last season, sixth in the league, and because their special teams unit was genuinely broken.

Who Is Skyy Moore

Born September 10, 2000, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Moore grew up about 20 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. He attended Shady Side Academy in Fox Chapel, where he developed into a standout receiver fast enough to earn Division I attention as a freshman. He’s 5-foot-10, 195 pounds, and clocked a 4.41 in the 40-yard dash at the 2022 NFL Combine – a time that explains everything about his current career trajectory.

The Kansas City Chiefs drafted him in the second round, 54th overall, in 2022. Three seasons with Kansas City. One trade to San Francisco. Now Green Bay, wearing number 23.

Western Michigan – Three Years, Two All-MAC Honors, One Historic Freshman Season

Moore played at Western Michigan from 2019 to 2021. His freshman year – and this part actually surprised me when I looked it up – he caught 51 passes for 802 yards and three touchdowns and earned first-team All-MAC honors. He was the first wide receiver in Western Michigan history to earn first-team All-MAC as a true freshman, and only the third MAC wideout to do it since 1982.

The pandemic-shortened 2020 season slowed things down. Five games, 25 catches, 388 yards, three scores. Not a lot to build draft buzz on. Then 2021 happened.

Against Northern Illinois that year, he tied a school record with four touchdown receptions in a single game. He finished with 95 catches for 1,292 yards and nine touchdowns, earned first-team All-MAC again, and declared for the draft. The 13.6-yard average per catch across 95 receptions is a production line that got scouts paying attention. His combine workout – 34.5-inch vertical, 10-foot-5 broad jump, 4.32 in the 20-yard shuttle – confirmed he was one of the more athletic receivers in the class.

2022 NFL Draft – Kansas City Chiefs, Pick 54

The Chiefs had just traded Tyreek Hill to Miami. They needed speed. Moore, with his 4.41 and his 95-catch season, looked like part of the answer. Second round, 54th overall. The expectation was that he’d grow into a genuine receiver option behind Travis Kelce in Patrick Mahomes’ offense.

It didn’t work out that way, and the reasons are worth understanding rather than just labeling it a bust.

Three Years in Kansas City – What Happened

Moore’s receiving numbers with the Chiefs: 48 receptions, 581 yards, one touchdown across three seasons. Around 250 yards in both 2022 and 2023. An abdominal injury shut him down in October 2024 – placed on injured reserve, missed most of the year. When the Chiefs won Super Bowl LIX over Philadelphia that February, Moore was healthy enough to be activated from injured reserve. They kept him inactive anyway. That detail lands differently than anything in a stat line.

He dealt with an IR stint in December 2023 too. The injuries compounded what was already a difficult situation: a deep receiver room, an offense built around Kelce and Mahomes’ improvisational style, not a lot of designed looks for a slot receiver who hadn’t yet forced his way into the rotation. RotoWire called him a flop relative to draft-pick expectations, and that’s fair. But there’s a difference between a player who failed and one who never got a real runway.

What Moore did show was speed the ball can’t teach. And then, in Super Bowl LVII, he showed something else.

Super Bowl LVII – The Touchdown That Made It Official

February 12, 2023. Kansas City against Philadelphia. Fourth quarter, Chiefs trailing, and Mahomes found Moore on a 4-yard catch in the end zone. The Eagles tied it. Kansas City won on a late field goal. Two rings total – Moore was also on the roster when the Chiefs beat the 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII.

For anyone paying attention to Western Pennsylvania football, the Moore touchdown in Super Bowl LVII carried extra weight. He became just the fourth player from the WPIAL (Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League) or Pittsburgh City League to score a touchdown in the Super Bowl in the past 40 years. The other three: Rob Gronkowski from Woodland Hills, Ty Law from Aliquippa, Curtis Martin from Allderdice. That’s a short list. Moore is on it.

The Trade to San Francisco and a Career Reset

August 20, 2025. The Chiefs traded Moore to the 49ers along with a 2027 seventh-round pick in exchange for a 2027 sixth-round pick. The trade value differential – a one-round swap – tells you how Kansas City valued him as a receiver at that point.

San Francisco used him differently. He was their primary return man, full stop. On offense: five catches, 87 yards, two carries for 11 yards across 17 games. On special teams: 907 kickoff return yards at 27.5 per return, 291 punt return yards at 11.6 per return. The 98-yard kickoff return at Arizona in Week 11 was his longest play as a pro and one of the better individual special teams performances of the 2025 season. He also had a 66-yard punt return against Cleveland.

Moore played all 17 regular-season games for San Francisco. That’s meaningful after two seasons of injury interruptions.

Why the Green Bay Packers Signed Him

Green Bay’s 2025 special teams numbers were bad in a specific, fixable way. The Packers ranked 23rd in kickoff return average (25.2 yards) and 32nd – last in the entire league – in punt return average (5.6 yards). Coordinator Rich Bisaccia’s unit also gave up blocked kicks, botched an onside kick, and drew multiple penalties. Bisaccia resigned late in the coaching cycle, leaving new hire Cam Achord with a unit that needed rebuilding from the bottom up.

Former All-Pro corner Keisean Nixon, who had been Green Bay’s primary return man, shifted back to playing cornerback full-time. Moore fills the vacancy. The one-year deal at $2.5 million base, with incentives that could push it to $4.5 million, is exactly the kind of contract a team offers when it needs a specific skill from a player it’s not fully committing to as an offensive contributor.

Moore’s offensive role in 2026 will be limited. The Packers’ receiver room runs Watson, Reed, Golden – second-year wideout Matthew Golden especially figures to eat into what little slot work might otherwise go Moore’s way. Analysts at Yahoo Fantasy have been explicit: they don’t expect Green Bay to rotate Moore into offensive packages regularly. Jet sweep looks, maybe. Gadget snaps when Matt LaFleur wants to create a size mismatch. But that’s situational, not featured.

Physical Profile and Pre-Draft Measurables

Moore ran the 4.41 at the 2022 combine when he weighed in at 195 pounds and measured 5-foot-9 and 5/8 inches – right on the edge of the size threshold that makes some teams hesitate on undersized receivers. His wingspan was 6-foot-1 and 5/8 inches. Arm length 31 inches. Vertical 34.5 inches. Broad jump 10 feet 5 inches. Three-cone 7.13 seconds. These aren’t numbers that scream first-round receiver. They do, however, describe exactly the physical profile of an NFL return specialist.

NFL Career Stats – The Full Picture

53 games played. 11 starts. 48 receptions, 581 yards, one receiving touchdown. Eight carries, 58 yards. 39 punt returns for 377 yards (9.7 avg). 38 kickoff returns for 1,000 yards (26.3 avg). Two Super Bowl rings. Those career receiving numbers are well below where a second-round pick should be after four years. The return numbers, particularly in 2025, are genuinely good.

Moore’s Fantasy Football Value in 2026

In standard and PPR formats, Moore has almost no value. He won’t see meaningful targets in Green Bay. The Packers have Watson, Reed, and Golden for that. Tucker Kraft at tight end is also a significant target coming off an ACL injury. Moore doesn’t enter the target-share conversation.

The one scenario where he matters: leagues that award return yardage. If your scoring format gives points per 10 or 25 kick/punt return yards, Moore’s 2025 production would have been worth something. He also has upside for a return touchdown – he didn’t score one in 2025 despite the 98-yarder and the 66-yarder, which is the kind of bad luck that tends to even out. In DFS on a week where he has a favorable matchup on special teams, he’s a low-cost dart throw.

In traditional formats, don’t bother.

Career Highlights

Two Super Bowl championships (LVII and LVIII) with the Kansas City Chiefs. Two first-team All-MAC selections at Western Michigan (2019 and 2021). Second-team All-MAC in 2020. Super Bowl LVII touchdown catch – 4 yards, fourth quarter, put Kansas City ahead against Philadelphia. The 98-yard kickoff return at Arizona on November 16, 2025 – the longest of his career and the third-best kickoff return average by a San Francisco player since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, behind Vic Washington’s 28.6 in 1972 and Ted Ginn’s 27.6 in 2011. Top-10 finish in both kickoff and punt return averages in 2025.

There’s a version of Skyy Moore’s career where the Chiefs use him more consistently on offense, the injuries don’t happen, and he becomes the slot receiver they drafted him to be. That version didn’t materialize. What materialized instead was a player who found something real in a role almost nobody scouts for in the second round – and then signed a contract to do exactly that in a city starving for a functional return game.