Julius Warmsley (73) knocks the ball out of the hands of quarterback Ryan Nassib of the New York Giants during the first half of an NFL preseason game at MetLife Stadium on Aug. 12, 2016, in East Rutherford, N.J. The Dolphins defeated the Giants 27-10. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)
Good luck trying to come up with a way things could have turned out any better for Dolphins defensive end Julius Warmsley.
Not only did he survive a tense Saturday — wondering if he was going from longshot to member of the 53-man roster — but he’s now looking at making his NFL debut in, of all places, Seattle.
As Warmsley was trying to break into the league as a member of the Seahawks’ practice squad, one person constantly telling him he had NFL talent (despite going undrafted) was former University of Miami linebacker Dan Morgan, who at the time was in Seattle’s scouting department.
Dan Morgan is his days as a Carolina Panthers linebacker, in 2005. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)
So after Warmsley made Miami’s roster, he tweeted a shout-out to thank Morgan, who now is the Seahawks’ director of pro personnel.
“He’s always been an advocate for me over there, so I just wanted to say thank you to him because I felt like he always saw something in me and he kept me around,” Warmsley said Monday.
“Me and him would communicate but he was always sending encouraging notes or saying, ‘Hey, don’t worry. Everything will be fine. You’ll be good.’ It was stuff like that, things like that. And then he was a big advocate for me with them, so I was just very thankful for them. The whole coaching staff there was great and they all liked me, but I just felt like he was an integral part of that.”
