The Seahawks were Taliese Fuaga 's favorite team growing up in Tacoma, Wash., a city just 30 miles south of Seattle. He wanted to play in the NFL partly because he wanted the chance to to finally play at Lumen Field.

He remembers visiting only once, for a Seahawks-Raiders game. And while select area high school games are played at Lumen Field — the Seahawk's home stadium — the Mount Tahoma Thunderbirds weren't successful enough to earn an appearance during Fuaga's tenure.

"I probably won, like, three, four games in high school," Fuaga said, smiling. "Four years there, [we] only won maybe four games. We were pretty bad at the time."

Still, he earned a scholarship to play at Oregon State and was good enough that the New Orleans Saints made him a first-round draft pick, No. 14 overall, i

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