1) Mayfield looks to continue MVP-level play<\/p>\n
The MVP chatter<\/a> around Baker Mayfield is heating up and his stats to kick off the 2025 season certainly put him in the conversation<\/a> among the best quarterbacks. Even with different injuries happening to key offensive players — Bucky Irving<\/a>, Mike Evans<\/a>, Chris Godwin<\/a> and Tristan Wirfs<\/a> have each missed a game or more this season — Mayfield has captained the Buccaneers’ ship smoothly. Despite missing talented pieces on offense from week to week, Mayfield is the only QB with more than 10 pass touchdowns and one interception. The Bucs offense faces a Detroit defense that has allowed 13 pass touchdowns, which is tied for fourth-most in the league. More help for Tampa Bay could be on the way this week. Rookie star wideout Emeka Egbuka and Evans are officially questionable<\/a> for Monday’s contest. Egbuka leads all rookie WRs in receptions (27), receiving yards (469) and touchdowns (5). Mayfield has taken care of business with whomever is on the field for Tampa Bay, but if Evans and Egbuka can suit up, the Bucs QB could have a big night in prime time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1) Mayfield looks to continue MVP-level play The MVP chatter around Baker Mayfield is heating up and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10801,5267,9909,10804,10803,8731,10799,7874,10802,7470,10800,115,5265,5269,135,2964,137,136,10805],"class_list":["post-11540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-amon-ra-st-brown","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-baker-mayfield","tag-chris-godwin","tag-david-montgomery","tag-detroit-lions","tag-emeka-egbuka","tag-game-preview","tag-jahmyr-gibbs","tag-jared-goff","tag-mike-evans","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-regular-season","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tristan-wirfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}