For Malachi Moore, the camera is not only for football highlight tapes, and “The Monster” is more than just a possible nickname if he starts piling up sacks on Rutgers defensive line.
Moore enrolled at Rutgers last week as an immediately eligible one-year graduate transfer from Boston College, where he played in 29 games over three seasons on the gridiron and earned a degree in English while discovering filmmaking as a creative outlet for the stories he writes in a personal journal.
“It’s building off everything that BC has given me over the course of four years,” said Moore, who will take graduate courses at the School of Management and Labor Relations, “as well as a breath of fresh air and saying, ‘This is where I am now, this is what I know, this is what I’ve learned.