{"id":91864,"date":"2025-08-24T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91864\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:52:10","slug":"bucs-shilo-sanders-ejected-after-punching-bills-zach-davidson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/91864\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs’ Shilo Sanders ejected after punching Bills’ Zach Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jenna LaineAug 24, 2025, 12:13 PM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jenna Laine covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN. She started covering the Bucs for ESPN in 2016, but she has covered the team since 2009. Jenna is a former cheerleader at the University of South Florida and speaks to the consistency of the program as being one of the top best in the nation.<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. — Buccaneers<\/a> rookie safety Shilo Sanders<\/a>, the son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, was ejected from Tampa Bay’s third preseason game against the Buffalo Bills<\/a> on Saturday night after an unnecessary roughness call.<\/p>\n

Sanders, an undrafted free agent out of Colorado<\/a> who is competing for a spot on the 53-man roster or the practice squad, punched tight end Zach Davidson<\/a>, who was blocking him, after some heavy pushing and shoving.<\/p>\n

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Sanders’ teammate, linebacker John Bullock<\/a>, tried to calm him. Tampa Bay coach Todd Bowles looked at Sanders as he walked back to the sideline late in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Bowles addressed the incident after Tampa Bay’s 23-19 loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You can’t throw punches in this league — that’s inexcusable,” Bowles said. “They’re going to get you every time. You’ve got to grow from that.”<\/p>\n

Sanders was not available for comment after the game.<\/p>\n

Sanders is competing for the fourth and final safety spot with Kaevon Merriweather<\/a> and Rashad Wisdom<\/a> to back up Antoine Winfield Jr.<\/a>, Tykee Smith<\/a> and Christian Izien<\/a>. Sanders was also flagged for a defensive pass interference call in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

In 2023, while at Colorado, Sanders was ejected after receiving a targeting penalty for a hit on UCLA<\/a> running back Carsen Ryan<\/a> just before halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna LaineAug 24, 2025, 12:13 PM CloseJenna Laine covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN. She started covering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-91864","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\/91864","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=91864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}