{"id":184953,"date":"2026-03-10T00:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184953\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:27:23","slug":"sources-bucs-reach-deals-with-kenneth-gainwell-alex-anzalone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184953\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Bucs reach deals with Kenneth Gainwell, Alex Anzalone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> have reached two-year deals with ex-Steelers<\/a> running back Kenneth Gainwell<\/a> and former Lions<\/a> linebacker Alex Anzalone<\/a>, sources told ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n

Gainwell agreed to a $14 million deal, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. Anzalone reached a $17 million deal with the Bucs, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n

Contracts can be finalized when the new league year begins Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Gainwell earned team MVP honors for the Steelers last season after leading the team with 73 receptions on 85 targets. He racked up a career-high 1,023 yards from scrimmage and scored eight touchdowns.<\/p>\n

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Gainwell, 26, initially joined the Steelers on a one-year, $1.79 million contract after spending the first four years of his career as a backup with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though he split backfield snaps with running back Jaylen Warren<\/a>, Gainwell had a significant impact on the offense as a pass-catching back. He played 50% of offensive snaps, while Warren also played 50%. Gainwell was also one of the team’s primary kick returners and averaged 24.3 yards in 26 returns.<\/p>\n

Initially selected in the fifth round of the 2021 draft by the Eagles, Gainwell has 21 career touchdowns and a career average of 4.4 yards per carry and 6.9 yards per reception. He was also part of the Eagles’ Super Bowl LIX-winning team.<\/p>\n

The nine-year veteran has been a starter since joining the Lions in 2021 and has 490 total tackles, 9.0 sacks and three interceptions in four seasons with the team.<\/p>\n

Anzalone started in all 16 games that he appeared in for Detroit last season and logged the team’s second-most tackles (95), including four for loss.<\/p>\n

After he expressed disappointment last offseason with how contract negotiations with the Lions had gone, Detroit adjusted Anzalone’s contract for the 2025 season, adding $250,000 to his base salary, boosting it to $6.25 million, which Detroit also guaranteed. He then was voted a team captain for the fifth straight year.<\/p>\n

Anzalone spent his first four seasons with the New Orleans Saints<\/a>, who took him in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Brooke Pryor and Eric Woodyard contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have reached two-year deals with ex-Steelers running back Kenneth Gainwell and former Lions linebacker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-184953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184953","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=184953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}