Who is Myles Price, the Vikings WR ESPN showed instead of late Rondale Moore?

Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Rondale Moore died Saturday from what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 25. A few hours later, ESPN’s late-night SportsCenter tried to honor him and ended up in its own storm.During Scott Van Pelt’s segment about Moore, the graphic went up with the wrong face. Viewers saw Minnesota wide receiver Myles Price on screen while Van Pelt talked about Moore’s death. The first airing hit at 1:07 a.m. ET, and the clip was online within minutes.The mistake was first spotted by viewers watching the overnight SportsCenter. On the screen, Moore’s name and dates ran next to a photo of Price in a Vikings uniform. For anyone who knew the roster, it was obvious the network had framed the wrong player as the one who had just died.Awful Announcing’s Drew Lerner broke down the sequence. The first version of the show aired with Price’s photo. When SportsCenter re-aired, ESPN had already pulled the segment, re-taped it with Van Pelt, and replaced the image with an actual photo of Moore.Another ESPN anchor, David Lloyd, later delivered an on-air apology during a Sunday night SportsCenter, acknowledging the error and the backlash that had built during the day.The anger was loud. Commentator Dov Kleiman posted the clip and wrote, “Pathetic: Scott Van Pelt did a dedicated segment for Rondale Moore detailing his passing on ESPN and used a picture of the wrong player…ESPN used a picture of Myles Price instead of Moore. Absolutely ridiculous.”Fans called it lazy and disrespectful, saying a basic image check should be standard when you are talking about a player who has just died. One fan said it was “kind of disrespectful” that no one double-checked the photo before it went to air. Another called it “definitely a bad look” for a show that usually treats tributes carefully.Price did nothing wrong. He is a fellow Vikings wide receiver who now wears No. 4. That number used to belong to Moore. Moore played only one game for Minnesota in the 2025 preseason opener against the Houston Texans, then suffered a season-ending knee injury.In a Sunday column, Mike Florio explained how this kind of error happens behind the scenes. He pointed out that the photo services used by ESPN and other outlets had already misfiled multiple images of Price as if they were Moore. Those services feed most of the photos that TV networks and websites use when they build graphics.Producers type in a name, get a gallery of images, and pick one. If the service has mislabeled a photo, the wrong face shows up under the right name. Florio admitted he nearly made the same mistake on his own site that night before catching that Moore should not have appeared in a white Vikings jersey in any current photo. Later, he summed it up with one line: “It’s not an excuse, but an explanation.”That is the core issue here. ESPN’s staff should have caught it, and viewers do not care whether the bad tag started with an outside vendor. At the same time, this is not a one-off glitch. It is part of a broader system where mislabeled photos sit in databases until someone pulls them for a segment that suddenly matters.Price is now the unintended face of that problem. His image, dropped into a tribute that was supposed to be about his late teammate, turned a somber moment into a viral clip about ESPN’s standards. Moore’s death is still the real story. The error just shows how little margin there is when networks talk about something this serious and rely on systems that have been wrong for a while. Myles Price is a rookie wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings. He is 5’9” and weighs 183 pounds. He played college football at Texas Tech from 2020-23 before transferring to Indiana in 2024. Across 55 college games, he totaled 3,073 all-purpose yards, including 2,161 receiving yards and 585 punt-return yards.At Indiana, he recorded 38 catches for 466 yards and three touchdowns in his final season. He also returned 23 punts for 289 yards. In 2025, he appeared in 16 games for Minnesota. He did not record a reception but logged rushing attempts and touches on special teams.The broadcast error put Price’s face in front of a national audience for the wrong reason. ESPN corrected the mistake quickly. Still, the clip circulated, and the incident shows how one mislabeled photo can turn a routine graphic into a viral controversy.