{"id":47116,"date":"2025-08-05T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T13:37:08","slug":"report-qb-teddy-bridgewater-expected-to-return-to-nfl-sign-with-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47116\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: QB Teddy Bridgewater expected to return to NFL, sign with Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teddy Bridgewater is going straight from high school back to the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran quarterback is expected to sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers following a visit on Tuesday, ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1952705817615949891\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1952705817615949891\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bridgewater, 32, last appeared in the NFL during the 2024 playoffs as a member of the Detroit Lions, his second straight with the organization.<\/p>\n<p>He then left the league to turn to high-school coaching in Miami, but was suspended in July for allegedly providing impermissible benefits to his players.<\/p>\n<p>The Louisville alum entered the NFL as a first-round pick (32nd overall) of the Minnesota Vikings in 2014. He&#8217;s gone on to play 79 games (65 starts) over 10 years with the Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins and Lions.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers have Baker Mayfield locked in as their No. 1 QB with Kyle Trask No. 2 on the depth chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teddy Bridgewater is going straight from high school back to the NFL. The veteran quarterback is expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-47116","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\/47116","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=47116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}