Hardly anybody calls him “Javorious.” Only a handful of family members still refer to the Ravens’ fourth-round draft pick by his natural name.
To everybody else, he’s “Buck.”
Javorius “Buck” Allen earned his nickname as a freshman in high school, and the name stuck ever since. It started when the running back played on the varsity team as a freshman, and all of the older kids referred to him as the “young buck.”
“By the 10th grade, they just started calling me ‘Buck,’” Allen said.
The nickname followed him to college at Southern California, and it has already caught on in Baltimore.