NFL WAG Breaks Down 'Tough' Realities of Her Husband Being Traded 10 Times in 11 Seasons (Exclusive)

NFL wide receiver Phillip Dorsett has played for 10 different teams complete nan people of 11 seasons. He's been traded to teams connected other coasts astatine various points successful nan year, sometimes only spending a mates of months pinch 1 franchise earlier being pointed successful different direction.

He's made his sanction connected fields crossed nan country, and acknowledgment to his family — woman Moriah Dorsett, their girl Payton, 3, and 6-month-old boy Micah — he's besides been capable to make each caller metropolis a home.

Moriah, 34, met Phillip, 32, 1 twelvemonth aft nan Indianapolis Colts selected him successful nan 2015 NFL draft. She was moving arsenic a wellness coach astatine nan clip while studying to get her master's degree. At nan time, she was a lifelong Indiana resident, having gone to undergrad astir 45 minutes distant from her hometown.

She was conscionable getting fresh to commencement her 2nd and last twelvemonth of her master's erstwhile Phillip sewage nan telephone successful September 2017: he had been traded to nan New England Patriots. Fortunately, Moriah's programme was afloat online, truthful she didn't person to extremity pursuing her dreams successful bid to travel love.

They spent 3 seasons pinch nan Patriots earlier Phillip was traded again successful 2020, this clip to nan Seattle Seahawks. It was a spot wherever Moriah tells PEOPLE she ne'er expected to live; small did she know, astatine nan time, it was nan first of galore moves she couldn't person predicted for herself.

"Some of nan places that we lived, I'm like, 'I would've ne'er moreover dreamed of moreover reasoning astir surviving there,' truthful it's bully to research nan cities," she admits. Even looking backmost connected their first move from Indianapolis to New England, Moriah remembers that initially jarring emotion of nan unknown.

"I had heard astir nan Patriots, but I was like, 'Where is that at?' I was freaking out. I'm like, 'Where's New England at? Where is Boston? Oh my God,'" she recalls pinch a laugh. "I ne'er would person imagined surviving there. I didn't moreover cognize wherever nan squad was at, astatine first."

In March 2021, aft wrapping his one-year statement successful Seattle, Phillip signed pinch nan Jacksonville Jaguars, but he wasn't tied to Florida for long. That September, he returned to nan Seahawks for a 2nd stint successful Seattle, only to beryllium moved to nan Houston Texans 3 months later.

The shot pro nabbed a statement pinch nan Texans that extended into nan 2022 season. He and Moriah welcomed their first kid there, but nan family wasn't agelong for nan state. In March 2023, Phillip signed pinch nan Las Vegas Raiders, past he was redirected to nan Denver Broncos earlier nan play started.

He signed pinch nan Atlanta Falcons for 2024, but earlier this year, he made his measurement backmost to Nevada and is presently connected nan Raiders' believe squad.

"I for illustration to see myself a master mover astatine this constituent now," Moriah tells PEOPLE. "The first clip erstwhile we moved from Indy to New England, nan squad had handled it for us. And past aft that, each nan different moves, that was each maine trying to get everything together."

As breathtaking arsenic it's been to research nan country, she's besides learned to unrecorded without putting down roots. That manner wasn't truthful challenging erstwhile it was conscionable nan 2 of them and their Yorkshire Terrier, Moriah notes, but having kids added immoderate challenges.

Luckily, she and Phillip aren't unsocial successful nan process erstwhile a move happens. "His parents are very progressive arsenic well, and they're ever my backbone and helped me," says Moriah. "They alert successful wherever we're astatine and thief maine get everything together."

Over a decade in, nan seasoned WAG has developed a strategy to header pinch nan anticipation of speedy shifts astatine immoderate point, since they've seen really trades tin hap pinch small announcement and conscionable months apart. Moriah explains that she doesn't move "as quickly" these days. Instead, she waits for a amended consciousness of really imperishable each alteration will be.

"Once he gets connected a team, I hold and spot really nan play is going to go, really he's feeling, and past usually we'll make nan move and travel down a small spot later," she shares. "Because nan past clip we were present successful Vegas, we moved, we sewage settled in, and past virtually 5 days earlier nan play started, he sewage traded to nan Denver Broncos."

At that point, she adds, they had already moved each their furnishings into a Las Vegas location for which they signed a year-long lease.

"I was like, 'What are we going to do? We conscionable sewage this house,'" Moriah recalls, though she sorted retired a coagulated crippled scheme that didn't time off her nor her girl emotion wholly displaced. They stayed successful Las Vegas until Thanksgiving and opted to rent an Airbnb successful Denver, since astatine that constituent nan play was almost over.

"That's nan difficult part, particularly erstwhile you're renting," nan mom of 2 adds. "We rent wherever he plays, but astir of nan clip they want you to do twelvemonth leases, which is tough."

(The family does person a location guidelines successful Florida, wherever Phillip is from. They bought a location location successful 2019, giving them a spot to enactment permanently successful nan off-season.)

Moriah is presently a full-time, stay-at-home mom, which is surely an perfect vocation for personification who can't support tight ties to immoderate 1 city. It didn't return agelong for her to recognize that reality aft entering into her narration pinch Phillip.

"It was difficult to support a job," she shares. "It's not for illustration I tin show nan job, 'I only tin activity present for six months and past I request nan different 4 months off.'"

Since Payton is getting to beryllium schoolhouse age, Moriah and her hubby person started strategizing really they'll motorboat her acquisition without settling into 1 neighborhood. The dedicated mom says she wanted her girl to commencement schoolhouse this year, truthful she decided to homeschool her pinch immoderate family help.

"My small sister has a inheritance successful societal work, and past she's besides getting her master's correct now," says Moriah. "She's worked successful a batch of schoolhouse settings, truthful we moved her successful pinch america this year, and she's for illustration our live-in nanny, but she's besides homeschooling my daughter.

From what Moriah has seen, 10 moves successful 11 years is connected nan higher broadside for NFL families, but it's not uncommon. Fellow partners of players person shared their ain experiences pinch moreover much turbulent trades.

"When we were pinch nan Patriots astatine nan clip — that was only our 2nd squad — I retrieve 1 woman telling maine that she had moved 4 times successful 1 season," Moriah tells PEOPLE.

Ultimately, Moriah says she's focused connected providing arsenic overmuch stableness arsenic imaginable for their family. Part of that has been building an NFL family wherever they are, moreover knowing that 1 spot whitethorn not beryllium location for excessively long. Plus, arsenic Moriah has experienced, they could ever extremity up coming backmost to that squad down nan line.

"It's a community, because astir of nan clip we're distant from our family and friends during shot seasons," she says of her chap WAGs from each team, galore of whom she's remained adjacent pinch moreover aft trades and moves. "It's really bully to person conscionable that organization of ladies who are surviving nan aforesaid life."