{"id":20034,"date":"2025-07-25T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20034\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:29:09","slug":"bucs-desmond-watson-nfls-heaviest-player-placed-on-non-football-injury-list-due-to-weight-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20034\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs\u2019 Desmond Watson, NFL\u2019s heaviest player, placed on non-football injury list due to weight | Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Desmond Watson\u2019s quest to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> will get a late start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/11\/desmond-watson-florida-nfl-draft\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heaviest player in NFL history<\/a> is day to day after starting camp on non-football injury list due to his weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIt\u2019s just about trying to get him better, to be a healthier player and getting him on the field a little more,\u201d Bowles said Wednesday. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of where I\u2019m at right now. He\u2019s working at it and we\u2019re working with him and that\u2019s all you can ask right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Watson, who played at Florida, was signed after going undrafted in April. He weighed 464lb at the school\u2019s pro day and lost 25 to 30lb before the draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cI don\u2019t have a timetable on what we can get him down to or when that comes,\u201d Bowles said. \u201cHe\u2019s from Armwood, he went to Florida, so he\u2019s used to the heat. That\u2019s not a big factor in it. We\u2019ve just got to see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The 6ft 6in defensive tackle has been working with a team nutritionist and the team hasn\u2019t said what would be an ideal playing weight for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Desmond Watson\u2019s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will get a late start. Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-20034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}