They’ll both take the field as the Bucs — currently the NFC’s No. 1 seed — attempt to further distance themselves from Detroit, last season’s top-seeded team in the conference.<\/p>\n
Evans returns to the lineup with 14 catches for 140 yards and a touchdown on the season, while Ebguka looks to build on a stat line of 27-469-5, numbers that have him front and center in the AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year conversation.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay still won’t be at full strength. Chris Godwin<\/a> remains sidelined as he tends to a fibula injury, meaning the team’s terrific trio at WR has yet to take the field all together heading into late October.<\/p>\n Regardless, overcoming gaps in the lineup has been the story of the Bucs’ season thus far. Baker Mayfield<\/a> has repeatedly clicked with any and every spare part available to keep the offense running like a top.<\/p>\n Evans and Egbuka returning should make that task even easier, as should Detroit’s depleted secondary; Safety Kerby Joseph<\/a> (knee), cornerback Avonte Maddox<\/a> (hamstring) and CB Terrion Arnold<\/a> (shoulder) are all out, plus defensive back Brian Branch<\/a> is serving a one-game suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Bucs will attack those still standing for the Lions with Evans, Ebguka and other pass catchers such as Sterling Shepard<\/a>, Tez Johnson<\/a>, Kameron Johnson<\/a> and Cade Otton<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay (5-1) and Detroit (4-2) square off at 7 p.m. ET on Monday in a matchup that could prove pivotal to NFC seeding down the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They’ll both take the field as the Bucs — currently the NFC’s No. 1 seed — attempt to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5267,10799,10800,115,5265,5269,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-13030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-emeka-egbuka","10":"tag-mike-evans","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-no-minute","13":"tag-regular-season","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","16":"tag-tampa-headlines","17":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030","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=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}