{"id":350167,"date":"2025-12-15T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350167\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:36:09","slug":"buccaneers-place-starting-cb-zyon-mccollum-hip-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350167\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers place starting CB Zyon McCollum (hip) on IR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"13e8b157-a75a-ff24-ae91-fa3d52ddf204\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> placed starting cornerback <a data-player-guid=\"89572d34-a399-be00-d274-26e1a84e87f2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4250392\/zyon-mccollum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zyon McCollum<\/a> on injured reserve Monday due to a hip injury he suffered in the first half of last Thursday night&#8217;s 29-28 loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"49fd392a-86fe-4df3-1b77-9bbfa18b2ad5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-falcons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Falcons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum will be sidelined for at least the Buccaneers&#8217; final three regular season games and their first playoff game, if the Buccaneers qualify for the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47283496\/todd-bowles-says-bucs-inexcusable-loss-falls-players\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1588415_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers (7-7) are tied with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"647c27bf-ab86-550e-5b83-91c29e73e4a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> (7-7) for first place in the NFC South standings. The two teams meet twice in the final three games, with the first matchup scheduled for this Sunday at Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers, who have lost five of their past six games, signed veteran linebacker <a data-player-guid=\"0534de31-ed14-2144-4278-41d2f9ea3be2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3045251\/anthony-walker-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Walker Jr<\/a>. off the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"582d14eb-da61-e505-cc40-d972a1b60ed1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indianapolis-colts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indianapolis Colts<\/a>&#8216; practice squad in a corresponding move Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McCollum, in his fourth NFL season, has 65 tackles, an interception and six passes defended in 13 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers placed starting cornerback Zyon McCollum on injured reserve Monday due to a hip injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-350167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350167","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=350167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}