{"id":194290,"date":"2026-03-17T01:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194290\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:16:10","slug":"bucs-re-sign-te-ko-kieft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194290\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Re-Sign TE Ko Kieft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ko Kieft, who was part of the 2022 draft class and had an expiring rookie contract, re-signed with the Buccaneers on Monday. Kieft was placed on injured reserve following a season-ending leg injury in the team&#8217;s win over the New York Jets in Week Three of the 2025 slate and in his absence, Payne Durham took on an elevated role. Kieft did not have a single reception when his 2025 campaign came to an abrupt halt, but he also made his presence felt on special teams as a rancorous tackler. Regarded as the &#8220;tone-setter&#8221; by teammates and coaches, Kieft will galvanize the offensive squad in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ko Kieft, who was part of the 2022 draft class and had an expiring rookie contract, re-signed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84731,589,90323,13332,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-194290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-free-agency","tag-featured","tag-ko-kieft","tag-roster-moves","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194290","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=194290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}