{"id":190025,"date":"2026-03-13T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:56:37","slug":"pass-rusher-al-quadin-muhammad-signs-with-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad signs with Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 12, 2026, 05:34 PM ET<\/p>\n

Free agent pass rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad<\/a> has signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

It’s a one-year deal that can be worth up to $6 million, according to NFL Network.<\/p>\n

He becomes the second Detroit Lions<\/a> defender to join the Buccaneers since the start of the free agent negotiating period Monday, joining linebacker Alex Anzalone<\/a>, who signed a two-year contract with Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Playing alongside Pro Bowler Aidan Hutchinson<\/a>, Muhammad had a breakout 2025 season for Detroit, recording career highs in sacks (11), tackles for loss (9) and quarterback hits (20) in 17 games.<\/p>\n

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He was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for Week 14 after recording three sacks in a 44-30 win over the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> on “Thursday Night Football.”<\/p>\n

Muhammad became the 11th player in franchise history to log double-digit sacks in a single season. He also joined Ezekiel Ansah (2017) and Robert Porcher (1999) as the third Lions player to have multiple games with 2.5 sacks in a single season.<\/p>\n

The Lions originally signed Muhammad to the practice squad on Oct. 7, 2024, then elevated him to the active roster a month later before re-signing him to a one-year deal last offseason.<\/p>\n

A sixth-round pick of the Saints in 2017 out of Miami, Muhammad spent his first season in New Orleans, then four in Indianapolis followed by a one-year stop in Chicago before joining the Lions.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Eric Woodyard contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 12, 2026, 05:34 PM ET Free agent pass rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad has signed with the Tampa Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-190025","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\/190025","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=190025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}