In the moment, South Carolina’s Javon Kinlaw figured his childhood was the same as everyone else’s. Looking back, he realizes just how tough it was. That upbringing helped shape him into the man he is today, bringing him to Mobile, Alabama for the 2020 Senior Bowl.
Living in Washington DC, Kinlaw says he was essentially homeless at times growing up. Bouncing around, living in basements, his family doing anything necessary to get by.
“My mother from Trinidad and Tobago and my two older brothers,” Kinlaw said at the Senior Bowl’s opening press conference Monday. “Just growing up in Northeast Washington DC.