Javien Elliott - Former NFL player on being an "UNCONQUERED WALK-ON"
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Javien Elliott played 4 seasons in the NFL with the Buccaneers and Panthers. He was undrafted after a college career at Florida State, where he went from walk-on to scholarship player.
His new book "UNCONQUERED WALK-ON" is out now.
Today on the podcast, Javien Elliott shares his journey of faith, purpose, resilience, spiritual growth. Javien shares abut his experience being baptized by Matt Forte at a Christian conference for NFL players and the significance of relying on God during life's transitions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.5 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.2 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.3 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.3 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.6 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:26.6 | What's up, Sports Spectrum? |
| 0:30.6 | It's Matt Forte here with my man, Jason Romano, as always. |
| 0:33.6 | And we have Javion Elliott on the podcast today who played for a few years, undrafted into the NFL, but played for a few years for the Buccaneers and also for the Carolina Panthers. It played a little bit in CFL as well. But man, he has an amazing testimony and a story. And a little bit to not to pat myself on the back, but I helped to baptize this young |
| 0:55.2 | man at a P-A-O conference. And it was amazing. So he's also an author. We have three authors |
| 1:02.0 | on this podcast right now, which hasn't, I don't think we've ever had that. We've had two. |
| 1:06.9 | Well, no, no, maybe we have had three. I get a couple guys had books coming out. But, |
| 1:13.5 | you know, Jason has wrote a few books. |
| 1:15.5 | I have, you know, written a book. |
| 1:18.7 | I actually have one that's going to be coming out in 2025 as well. |
| 1:20.0 | But Jayvian's book. |
| 1:20.9 | Great news here, Matt. |
| 1:21.5 | I didn't know. |
| 1:22.3 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:25.9 | But yeah, I got a book coming out, another one. |
| 1:32.0 | And I did the children's book, and I've got to do something that's, you know, more for our community as far as pro athletes and also, you know, adults as well. |
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