{"id":515264,"date":"2026-03-05T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515264\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:54:10","slug":"riley-dixon-returning-to-bucs-after-they-exercise-his-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515264\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Dixon returning to Bucs after they exercise his option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Buccaneers exercised the option on punter Riley Dixon\u2019s contract, preventing him from entering free agency, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The option is for $3 million and resolves the question of who the Buccaneers will have as their punter in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon, 32, signed a two-year, $6 million deal, with $3 million guaranteed, in the 2025 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>It initially appeared his stay in Tampa would be a short one as the Bucs worked out other punters when Dixon had two punts blocked in the first four games. He ended up averaging 44.7 yards on 63 punts, with a 38.9-yard net.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon had 29 punts downed inside the 20, with four touchbacks.<\/p>\n<p>He has played for 10 seasons, punting for the Broncos, Giants, Rams, and Bucs.<\/p>\n<p>Dixon has a career average of 45.8 yards, with a 40.9-yard net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers exercised the option on punter Riley Dixon\u2019s contract, preventing him from entering free agency, Adam Schefter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-515264","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\/515264","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=515264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}