"I was hanging out with Earl Thomas, the safety for the Seattle Seahawks, one of my idols and a guy I look up to a lot … and I had just walked into his place, this huge house in Houston, and from the moment I walked in the place he could tell from the look on my face that I was star-struck," Clinton-Dix said of a visit last offseason. "It was almost like a movie and I was at a loss for words. The first thing he said to me was, 'Ha, just do the right things.' That's it. Just do the right things. It's that simple.