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Let's be honest: This is getting a little awkward.

We believe that Rondale Moore has, for some time, dealt with a bit of a nagging injury picked up during camp, and it's my strong suspicion that Purdue's approach to it has been to keep that quiet best it can as to not create a stigma around the player among NFL folks. My other strong suspicion is that it took that approach figuring this would be a one-week sort of deal, two tops, and that the whole thing would just go away pretty quick once Moore took the field.

Here it is a month later, and No. 4 has been seen in uniform as often as our chins are seen out in public these days. It's getting weird.