Indianapolis Colts running back Zack Moss, runs the ball past the Tennessee Titans' defense during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, in Indianapolis. If someone went to their car and popped the trunk, Zack Moss knew it was time to run. Basketball was his outlet, an opportunity for him to put his mind at ease while growing up in Liberty City, a neighborhood in inner-city Miami. But for as much bliss as those concrete courts provided, the park was no safe haven.
“You got family, friends, random people kind of just betting on games,” said Moss, who was a teenager at the time. “… Personally, I think it helped me, just to kind of be in those pressure moments, which, obviously, now I’m in kind of almost every day.” “The park that I used to go to, there was always a lot of shootings,” Moss said. “I mean, it would be little league football games going on with kids 8, 9 or 10 years old, but these things was normal all of the time.Moss would hightail it home, running as fast as he could toward his biggest inspiration and greatest motivation: his mom.
They’d move three or four more times, Zack said, by the time he reached high school, including one stint at a hotel and another when he lived separate from his mom. Zack moved in with his grandma, while his mom lived a few minutes away with his aunt because “we didn’t have housing.” “Sunday twice, Tuesday nights and Thursday nights,” Zack said, laughing. “Even on school nights, that didn’t matter.”
That season-ending knee injury derailed Zack’s plan to enter the 2019 NFL Draft as a junior, but it never derailed his “mission.” He was determined to use football as a way to provide for his mom, so when he returned as a senior and broke Utah’s all-time rushing record with his mom in attendance, it felt like a movie script.
Zack Moss first caught the eye of college scouts as a linebacker and running back during his junior season at Mater Academy, committing to the University of Miami after the season ended. But it was his senior season, after he transferred to Hallandale Magnet High School and fully committed to running back, that was most memorable.
Utah is where he became the first college graduate in his immediate family. Utah is where Zack met his wife, Jesse. This past June, the two welcomed their first child, a son named Zavien. It was the first big purchase of Zack’s career, a three-bedroom, two-and-half-bathroom complex in Hollywood, Fla., that his mom and siblings moved into during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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