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How a rocky tenure at Texas prepared Seahawks TE Tyrone Swoopes for a position switch

The Seahawks' second-year tight end endured an up-and-down college career as a dual-threat quarterback at Texas. How did those struggles actually help Swoopes reinvent himself in Seattle?

Tyrone Swoopes was serenaded with each passing step.

On Thursday morning, during the first practice of training camp, the unlikely second-year Seahawk hauled in a pass from Russell Wilson, turned and started running. As he did, the stereo system surrounding the VMAC practice fields pumped out a familiar chorus, five words and a funky beat serving as an accidentally appropriate soundtrack.

Don’t believe me? Just watch.

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