{"id":259300,"date":"2026-05-05T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:13:12","slug":"former-wahoo-qb-morris-invited-to-tampa-bay-rookie-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259300\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wahoo QB Morris Invited To Tampa Bay Rookie Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jerry Ratcliffe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jerryratcliffe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_3320.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3320-400x267.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37641\"  \/><\/a>Photo: UVA Athletics<\/p>\n<p>When Tampa Bay signed undrafted free agent Chandler Morris, the Buccaneers opened up competition for their backup quarterback job.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, who threw his hat into the ring late (April 9) for the NFL Draft after being denied a seventh year of college eligibility, was one of two QBs signed as undrafted free agents by the Bucs. Tampa Bay hasn\u2019t selected a quarterback in the last five drafts, so there will be four players battling to be the backup to starter Baker Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of this article and even more award-winning coverage on the UVA athletics department, including its nationally-ranked football and basketball programs, be sure to subscribe to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/jerryratcliffe.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cavalier Exclusive<\/a>\u201d to follow all of Virginia Sports Hall Of Famer Jerry \u201cHootie\u201d Ratcliffe\u2019s analysis and content. It\u2019s the best in the business for Wahoo Fans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jerry Ratcliffe Photo: UVA Athletics When Tampa Bay signed undrafted free agent Chandler Morris, the Buccaneers opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-259300","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\/259300","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=259300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}