The Giants in the fifth round of the NFL draft broke their run of taking “clean’’ players free of past indiscretions when, on Saturday afternoon, they selected Avery Moss, a pass-rushing defensive end.
Moss has what can truly be considered a checkered past. He started his college career at Nebraska and ended it at Youngstown after an incident that got him banned from campus and suspended for a full year. Moss, as a 17-year-old in 2012, was convicted of public indecency after he exposed himself twice to a 22-year-old student worker inside a residence hall. Moss appealed the ban, was denied, eventually dismissed from school and followed his Nebraska coach, Bo Pelini, to Youngstown.