Back when David Moore was an under-recruited receiver at Gainesville High School, his mom offered up some advice before he eventually went on to a successful college career at Division II East Central University.

"Listening to my mom, she would tell me, 'it's not about where you go, it's what you do when you get there,'" Moore said. "Then when I got (to ECU), I had a good connection with my coach, and it just felt like home. The rest is history."

It turns out Angie Moore might have been onto something. Because even if her son had to go to a Division II school in Oklahoma to show what he could do on the football field, Moore's talents still got him noticed by NFL teams, including the Seahawks, who selected him in the seventh round of the 2017 draft. Moore spent most of his rookie season on the practice squad before eventually earning a late-season call-up, and now with a year of experience under his belt, he looks not just like somebody who's likely to make the team, but like a potential impact player.

"He has shown us that he really has special catching ability," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "He's got really good ability at the point of attack… At the point of attack, he's really strong. He doesn't look as studly as he is, he's about 216, 218 (pounds), and he plays to that strength and it works for him. And he's really good when the ball's contested. So, that's the thing that we like the most about and we know he can make things happen, so we really want to keep working to fit him in. He came from a program that was not at the same level that we're at, so he's been in the catch-up mode for some time. But, he's way farther ahead than he was last year at this time, and we clearly have an appreciation for what he can do with the ball. He can catch the kicks too and punts, he's ready to do all that stuff when we want him too. He's really just become a bigger factor, and now we got to see how we can use him and see if we can get him in the right spots to utilize his talent."