TAMPA — Javien Elliott is an undrafted cornerback trying to make a team deep in cornerbacks. That makes him a long shot for the Bucs' 53-man roster this season, which is nothing new to the former Florida State Seminole.
Long shot is all he really knows.
"He knows what it's like to be an underdog," Javien's father, Jay, said. "He's been through that trial, that right of passage. He's cut from a different cloth."
Bucs defensive coordinator Mike Smith smiled when asked after a recent practice for an assessment of Elliott's work during the first part of training camp.