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Getty Images In 2017, Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz was the favorite to win the league MVP award until a December ACL tear ended his second season. In 2018, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes won the MVP as in his second season. In 2019, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson won the MVP in his...

Getty Images After a year out of football, Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski is healthy. He has shed the giant elbow brace. He’s feeling great. He’s moving well. By all appearances, he’ll be able to play like he used to play. So how often will he play? Peter King guessed in this week’s...

Getty Images Running back T.J. Logan is likely out for the season for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after leaving practice on Thursday with a patella tendon injury, according to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. Logan was injured while being tackled by linebacker Quinton Bell in what was supposed...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers traded for tight end Rob Gronkowski, it was believed that the Bucs would trade tight end O.J. Howard or tight end Cameron Brate. When the Bucs didn’t, another possibility emerged: Gronk would have limited snaps early in the year, with more playing time as the...

Getty Images One of the players vying for a role in Tampa’s backfield needed assistance getting off the field at Thursday’s practice. Running back T.J. Logan was carted off after being tackled from behind by linebacker Quinton Bell. The injury came a play after the offense and defense did some...

Getty Images A year of retirement may have done Rob Gronkowski some good. Gronk, who retired from the Patriots last year but came out of retirement to join Tom Brady on the Buccaneers this year, has healed up and looks like he’s moving the way he did four or five years ago, head coach Bruce...

Getty Images For the first time in his NFL career, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is dealing with training camp in a hot, humid climate. A climate conducive to a condition known in the medical journals as “swamp ass.” It results in perspiration from the center’s undercarriage getting on the...

Getty Images Tom Brady wants things, well, a certain way. So if you’re Buccaneers center Ryan Jensen, you do what it takes to drain the swamp. Via Eduardo Encina of the Tampa Bay Times, Jensen said he’s happy to adapt to a few extra steps so his new quarterback can have a dry football. Since...

Getty Images With no preseason games to evaluate players, teams are forced to adjust their camp routines. For the Bucs, that means a pair of chances to simulate game action. Bucs coach Bruce Arians told reporters after Wednesday’s practice that they’d hold a pair of intrasquad game situations...

Getty Images Ultimately, Donovan Smith decided the risk was worth it, or at least less of a risk than he was worried about initially. The Buccaneers left tackle said in July he had concerns about COVID-19, and that playing “does not seem like a risk worth taking.” That was largely because he...

Getty Images It didn’t take Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady long to make an impression on wide receiver Mike Evans. Evans says he and Brady are building a great rapport, and that Brady is a “living legend,” who is “trying to turn me into a living legend as well.” “He’s the GOAT, on and off...

Getty Images Antoine Winfield Jr. didn’t go as high in the draft as his father, but he may make a faster trip to the starting lineup. Winfield Sr. was the 23rd overall pick by the Bills in 1999 and Buffalo gave him a pair of starts at cornerback after drafting him in the first round in 1999...

Getty Images The Saints haven’t had much of a chance to get to know Jameis Winston. But what they’ve seen of him so far, they’ve liked. Via Luke Johnson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Saints coach Sean Payton said he’s been encouraged by the way Winston has performed so far. “I’ve been...

Getty Images Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is 43 years old, but he doesn’t look it when he’s throwing the football in camp. Peter King observed in his Bucs camp visit documented in this week’s Football Morning in America that Brady’s arm looked stronger than it did a year ago, and others in...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski is getting used to playing football again after returning from a one-season retirement to join Tom Brady with the Buccaneers. That effort took a step forward on Monday with the start of padded practices in Tampa and head coach Bruce Arians gave an update on how the...

Getty Images The Buccaneers are signing another former Patriot. They agreed to terms with defensive lineman Kyle Love on Saturday, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports. Love, 33, spent the past six seasons as a backup in Carolina. He made 9.5 sacks for the Panthers. He entered the NFL...

Getty Images The Buccaneers, of course, didn’t have an offseason with their new quarterback, though Tom Brady led his own workouts. The offense goes against the defense for the first time in Friday’s practice, giving Brady and the Bucs a month to figure it all out. Coach Bruce Arians isn’t...

Getty Images The Saints won’t have fans in the stands for their season opener Sept. 13 in what will mark Tom Brady‘s debut with the Buccaneers. The team announced the decision Wednesday night. “Mrs. [Gayle] Benson has appointed an internal management team that oversees all elements of our...

Getty Images The Broncos brought in former Buccaneers tackle Demar Dotson for a visit earlier this week. They signed Dotson on Tuesday, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. The Broncos needed help at right tackle after Ja'Wuan James opted out of the 2020 season because of COVID-19 concerns...

Getty Images With COVID-19 changing the way nearly everything in the world of football is done, NFL officials are intent on keeping the Super Bowl on schedule. In discussing plans with Tampa officials and media Tuesday, NFL executive vice president Peter O’Reilly said the Feb. 7 Super Bowl 55...