{"id":245669,"date":"2026-04-25T02:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:47:11","slug":"tampa-bay-buccaneers-select-georgia-state-wr-ted-hurst-with-the-84th-pick-in-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245669\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers Select Georgia State WR Ted Hurst with the 84th Pick in Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have traded their third-round pick (No. 77) in the 2026 NFL Draft to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for their third-round pick (No.84), additionally gaining a fifth-round selection (No. 160).<\/p>\n<p>Following the trade, the Bucs have selected Georgia State wide receiver Ted Hurst with the 84th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. One of the league&#8217;s best wide receiver rooms just got even better. Standing at 6-foot-3, Hurst is a sizable receiver who thrives downfield. In 2025, he was a first-team All-SBC selection after going for 1,004 receiving yards and six receiving touchdowns. Hurst is a big play waiting to happen, securing 34 catches of 20-plus yards over the past two seasons. He teams up with Chris Godwin Jr. and Emeka Egbuka with the goal to terrorize opposing secondaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have traded their third-round pick (No. 77) in the 2026 NFL Draft to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54521,108113,107601,589,135,137,136,89573],"class_list":{"0":"post-245669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-2026pick84","10":"tag-draft-tracker-card","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-ted-hurst"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245669","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=245669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}