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Take a ride with a big Bucs lineman who lived in his SUV

TAMPA — He didn't live in a van down by the river.

Let's get that straight.

He lived in an SUV down by the beach.

"Not homeless, just a choice," Stevie Tu'ikolovatu said with a smile.

Tu'ikolovatu — "Stevie T." to Bucs players and coaches who gave up trying to pronounce his name last weekend at rookie minicamp — is a big man (340 pounds) with a bigger dream: playing in the NFL. The former run-stuffing Utah defensive tackle and USC graduate transfer was selected in the seventh round of the draft by the Bucs.