{"id":21459,"date":"2025-07-25T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21459\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:48:12","slug":"bucs-watson-the-nfls-heaviest-player-trying-to-get-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/21459\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs’ Watson, the NFL’s heaviest player, trying to get ‘healthier’"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. — Desmond Watson<\/a>‘s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> will get a late start.<\/p>\n

Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said the heaviest player in NFL history is day to day after starting camp on non-football injury list due to his weight.<\/p>\n

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“It’s just about trying to get him better, to be a healthier player and getting him on the field a little more,” Bowles said Wednesday. “That’s kind of where I’m at right now. He’s working at it, and we’re working with him and that’s all you can ask right now.”<\/p>\n

Watson, who played at Florida, was signed after going undrafted in April. He weighed 464 pounds at the school’s pro day and lost 25 to 30 pounds before the draft.<\/p>\n

“I don’t have a timetable on what we can get him down to or when that comes,” Bowles said. “He’s from Armwood, he went to Florida, so he’s used to the heat. That’s not a big factor in it. We’ve just got to see what happens.”<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-6 defensive tackle has been working with a team nutritionist, and the team hasn’t said what would be an ideal playing weight for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. — Desmond Watson‘s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will get a late start. Buccaneers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-21459","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\/21459","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=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}