Bucs to find out which WRs want it most

There are 10 of them in a room for position meetings, 10 guys who know there won't be 10 of them in a few weeks. Outside the room, outside their team, there's the talk: This unit isn't much, no impact guys, a punch line at best.

They're the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' receivers, and they hear you coming.

"We're like the stepchildren," Bucs receiver Micheal Spurlock said. "Every one of us has been given up on one way or another, everyone in that room has a little chip on his shoulder, something to prove."

"We're all hungry," Bucs receiver Maurice Stovall said.

Bucs coach Raheem Morris says it's a "heartbeat" that's helping drive this team.

You're letting these guys drive?

Ten guys with something to prove. They could pass for this whole team.

There's Stovall, who has battled injuries with the Bucs; he's fighting a bad ankle right now. He wants to show he can be a consistent starter and go-to receiver.

There's rookie Mike Williams, who has quickly made his preseason star and who wants to make people pay for not going until the fourth round because of off-field stuff at Syracuse.

There's fellow rookie draft pick Arrelious Benn, who went two rounds ahead of Williams, but has yet to make a big splash.

"You just keep working hard," Benn said.

There's Michael Clayton.

Well, you know ...

There's Reggie Brown, who came over in a trade from Philadelphia, where he led all NFL rookies in receiving yards in 2005, but then came injuries and DeSean Jackson and "you kind of get shuffled along," Brown said. "If you're in the tub, you can't make the club."

There's Sammie Stroughter, who made a mark as a seventh-round draft pick last season and wants to prove it wasn't a fluke.

There's trivia answer Spurlock, the first Buc to return a kickoff for a touchdown. He returned a punt for a Bucs score at New Orleans last season. In between, he was briefly with the 49ers before joining the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League.

"It's my second go-'round with the Bucs," Spurlock said. "My chip on my shoulder is anyone thinks 'You can get to the end zone once, maybe twice, but is he a receiver?'"

There's Terrence Nunn, signed off New England's practice squad in November. There's undrafted free agent Preston Parker, a playmaker at Florida State before being dismissed after a rash of arrests. He went and kept his game alive at North Alabama.

"I want to show everyone my abilities are still there," Parker said.

There's Chris Brooks, another undrafted free agent.

"Chris Brooks, he came by way of a rookie tryout, 100 guys out here," Bucs receivers coach Eric Yarber said. "These guys all have a little something they want to show everybody."

Mo Stovall carries a football everywhere. It's on his lap when he drives, he sleeps with it at night. He's been doing it since forever.

"Just so it's always on my mind," he said.

There won't be 10 of them for long. Five or more, probably six will stick. Williams and Benn, Stroughter, Brown and probably Stovall, provided he gets healthy.

Clayton has that big contract. Spurlock has scored a touchdown this preseason. So has Nunn. Brooks had three catches at Miami. Parker has returned punts and against Kansas City made a special-teams tackle and forced a fumble.

Williams is the one sure starter, the No. 1 receiver - and he has never even played an NFL game.

Think about that.

Maybe there is no No. 1 on this team, or 2 or 3.

In the room, they hear you coming.

"We get a chance to show you," Arrelious Benn said.