{"id":22473,"date":"2025-07-25T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22473\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:51:10","slug":"bucs-desmond-watson-nfls-heaviest-player-placed-on-non-football-injury-list-due-to-weight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22473\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs&#8217; Desmond Watson, NFL&#8217;s heaviest player, placed on non-football injury list due to weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Desmond Watson\u2019s quest to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nfl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/313\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> will get a late start.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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>Watson, who played at Florida, was signed after going undrafted in April. He weighed 464 pounds at the school&#8217;s pro day and lost 25 to 30 pounds before the draft.<\/p>\n<p>\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>The 6-foot-6 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<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Desmond Watson\u2019s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will get a late start.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-22473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}