12/06/2024
Enjoy this write up about Josh Moody and shout-out to Steve Edwards for all the stats and research.
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Moody Makes History and Impacts Wildcats Football
Senior quarterback #9 Josh Moody has made a huge impact on Nitro football. His talents, along with other standout Wildcats football players have helped turn around a program that has struggled for seventeen years. Josh's talent only comes around every couple of generations.
West Virginia High School history was made by Josh, but readers will need to continue to near the bottom of this article to feel and realize the career Josh had.
Josh played his first two years of high school football at Buffalo High School in Putnam County. He played sparingly during his freshman season at quarterback. But as a freshman, you could see he had potential as he completed 25 of 35 passes (71.4%) for 315 yards and 6 TD’s, with only 1 interception. Buffalo finished 4-5 during the 2021 season.
In 2022, Josh became the starting quarterback for the Bison in his sophomore year. He completed 138 passes on 250 attempts (53.2%) for 2,222 yards and 19 TD’s. He was named to the Class A All-State Honorable Mention team on a team that had a record of 3-7.
NOTE: NSN researched Josh’s years at Buffalo. Newspaper articles & box scores, Youtube livestreams, and Hudl videos were used to rebuild his statistics. Information is partially missing from his freshman season in a game against Ravenswood.
During the summer of 2023, Josh transferred to Nitro and earned the starting job immediately. He completed 209 passes on 327 attempts (63.9%) for 3,711 yards and 49 touchdowns. He helped lead Nitro to their first post season game in sixteen years and was named to the West Virginia AA All-State 2nd Team and the Cardinal Conference 1st Team. Nitro finished the season with a 7-4 record.
This past season, Josh completed 241 passes on 345 attempts (69.9%) for 3,846 yards and 40 touchdowns. Again, under his leadership, the Wildcats advanced into the playoffs, finishing with a 10-2 record. His post season awards include Cardinal Conference 1st Team, with All-State honors to be announced shortly after the post season ends.
NITRO FOOTBALL ONLY STATISTICS
First, we will look at Josh’s Nitro statistics. He only played two years for the Wildcats, but his numbers put him at or near the top in several categories. The following numbers reflect ONLY his Nitro statistics for the Nitro record book.
Career
3rd-Career Pass Attempts with 669; JR House (1995-98) with 1,725 and Derek Midkiff (1999-02) with 704
2nd-Career Pass Completions with 450; JR House (1995-98) with 1,103.
2nd-Career Passing Yards with 7,557 yards; JR House (1995-98) with 14,457.
2nd-Career Passing TDs with 89; JR House with 145.
1st-Career Passing Completion Percentage with 67.0%; JR House with 63.9%
Season
3rd-Season Passing Attempts with 345 (2024); JR House with 610 (1998) & 458 (1996)
3rd-Season Pass Completions with 241 (2024); Jr House with 425 (1998) & 275 (1996).
3rd-Season Passing Yards with 3,846 (2024); JR House with 5,526 (1998) and Michael Scott with 4,126 (2007).
2nd-Season Passing TDs with 49 (2023) tied with Michael Scott (2007); JR House with 65 (1998).
1st-Season Pass Completion Percentage with 69.9%; JR House with 69.7% (1998).
Game
2nd-Game Pass Attempts with 58 versus Scott on 11/11/2023; JR House with 60 versus Morgantown on 12/5/1998.
1st-Game Passing Yards with 621 yards (WV State Record) versus St. Albans on 9/1/2023; JR House (previous WV State Record) with 594 versus Morgantown on 12/5/1998.
1st-Game Passing TDs with 11 (WV State Record) versus St. Albans on 9/1/2023; JR House (previous WV State Record) with 10 versus Morgantown on 12/5/1998.
FULL CAREER STATISTICS
Josh’s career statistics include his freshman and sophomore years at Buffalo High School and his junior and senior years at Nitro.
Josh completed 617 passes on 964 attempts (64.0%) for 10,114 yards and 114 TDs. Per MaxPreps.com, a website that helps teams manage schedules, rosters, statistics, recruiting and more, shows that Josh (not recognized yet) and JR House are the only two high school quarterbacks in West Virginia State history to top the 10,000-yard mark in a career. He joins a national crowd of only 182 high school quarterbacks to eclipse 10,000 yards throughout history. He joins the likes of Kyler Murray, DJ Uiagalelei, Spencer Rattler, Joe Burrow, JT Daniels, Trevor Lawrence, Taulia Tagovailoa and more in this exclusive club.
Josh will leave the Wildcats football program as one of the best quarterbacks in school history as well as the state. He played with desire, discipline and respect. He is a student of the game. He will be missed as he graduates in the spring.
https://www.maxpreps.com/news/pXWSYnQLTkqM0yX4kFXppg/high-school-quarterbacks-with-at-least-10%2C000-career-yards-passing.htm
