Marble Falls grad David Morgan puts efforts into ventures, family, helping athletes play like him

CAPTION: David Morgan (right) with his wife, Langlie, and their son Moose. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography

Marble Falls High School graduate David Morgan still turns heads when he is on campus.

The former Mustang receiver was at Max Copeland Gym for the signing ceremony of cousin Noah Lyon to Schreiner University May 14.

Morgan, a 2011 graduate, made history as the first Mustang and University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunner drafted by an NFL team when the Minnesota Vikings took him at No. 188 in the 2016 draft.

He was released in 2020 because of a failed physical. But just like he used to do for the Mustangs as a football and basketball standout, the former tight end pivoted by joining the business world.

“I’m just independently pursuing real estate development investments, just kind of trying to navigate my way through entrepreneurship,” he said. 

Like his father, the late David Ross Morgan, the younger Morgan has started business ventures involving land. Before his dad became a coach at Colt Elementary School, “Big Dave” owned a landscaping business.

“We were just more in the family business that was growing,” David Morgan II said. “We’re still operating that because I’m doing a lot more on my own side of it now.” 

As for the real estate and development, Morgan said he’s turned his attention to that because of the freedom it gives. He and his wife, Langlie, whom he met in 2013 at UTSA, have a son, David Morgan III, nicknamed “Moose.”

“I’ve seen that the real estate (gives) the welfare and provides the financial freedom,” he said. “I think it’s a job where I can put in a lot of work, but also have a balance of a work-life, balance in some time with my wife and my son now. So yeah, I think it’s a very rewarding job. One that’s always been interesting to me, and it makes you think a little bit.”

He compared it to solving puzzles with harder problems and finding a solution.

“So it’s been great,” he added.

The new father, whose son is about seven months old, laughed when asked how Moose was like him.

“He’s already very, very large, so he’s very high percentile, and all in all measurements is he’s growing like a weed,” Morgan said. “He eats a ton, he loves his mama.” 

Like his father, the former pro athlete said he has been helping Texas Legacy Football Academy, based in the Georgetown and Round Rock area. It’s for middle school and high school athletes who are in private or home schools.

“Programs that don’t have football programs,” he said. “I always, obviously, loved (football). I help where I can.”

If he missed his playing days, he didn’t indicate it. Instead he sounded like a content family man. Also in attendance during the signing was his mother, Christine, sister Megan and her family along with Langlie and Moose.

“it’s been such a blessing to be able to start a family with my wife,” he said. “It’s just been so incredible, so it’s a super thankful.” 

CAPTION: Cousins Noah Lyon (left) and David Morgan. Photo by Martelle Luedecke/Luedecke Photography