CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- This is a story about an undersized football player who wasn’t offered a college scholarship out of high school, who didn’t play football the next three years, who worked a full-time job while going to two different community colleges to improve his grades
This is a story about a player who finally walked on at a big-time college football program where he’d always dreamed of playing, with nothing promised but an opportunity to be on the scout team.
This is not the story of “Rudy."
“My story is better, because I’ve had four years in the NFL," said Carolina Panthers nickelback Javien Elliott, who is somewhat undersized by NFL standards at 5-foot-11 and 174 pounds.