DeWitt’s Traverse Moore sees running style a good fit with Central Michigan football

Traverse Moore received plenty of college football interest both for his abilities carrying the ball as well as his play on defense in the secondary.

But the DeWitt junior really enjoys making things happen with the ball in his hands as a running back.

Moore will have an opportunity to keep doing that at the next level after making a verbal commitment last weekend to the Central Michigan football program and its first-year coach Matt Drinkall.

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“I just enjoy being able to run the ball,” said Moore, who has 33 rushing touchdowns over the last two seasons for DeWitt. “I enjoy contact and being able to run through people. I enjoy it.”

Those aspects are why the 6-foot Moore, who ran for 1,012 yards and 16 touchdowns as part of the high-powered DeWitt offensive attack in the fall, sees a strong fit with CMU. Drinkall most recently served as the offensive line coach for Army, which used a power-rushing attack to rank among the nation’s top rushing teams.

Drinkall’s background from the six seasons he spent in multiple capacities at Army also had big appeal.

“(It’s) definitely that mentality piece,” Moore said. “When we first met, my first question for him was what’s the biggest thing that you took from being at Army and he said just that mentality piece, that grit that comes with coaching at Army and being a player at Army. Just that mentality piece that Coach Drinkall and the whole coaching staff at Central brings to the game of football and just life outside of football really attracted me.”