{"id":915273,"date":"2026-10-04T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915273\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:58:09","slug":"bucs-elevate-qb-easton-stick-from-practice-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915273\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs elevate QB Easton Stick from practice squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buccaneers elevated linebacker Caden Fordham and quarterback Easton Stick from the practice squad for Sunday\u2019s game against the Packers, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first elevation for both Fordham and Stick.<\/p>\n<p>Stick will serve as the backup to rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels, who is set to make his NFL starting debut in place of Baker Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Mayfield will miss at least three weeks with a dislocated right thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Stick signed with the Buccaneers\u2019 practice squad on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Fordham signed with the Buccaneers as a rookie free agent in May and initially made the team\u2019s 53-player roster. The Bucs, though, waived him Sept. 2 after claiming cornerback Kevin Knowles off waivers from Kansas City. Fordham then signed back to the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers elevated linebacker Caden Fordham and quarterback Easton Stick from the practice squad for Sunday\u2019s game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-915273","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\/915273","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=915273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}