{"id":385721,"date":"2026-08-31T02:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385721\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T02:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:18:13","slug":"buccaneers-make-cuts-get-roster-down-to-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385721\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers Make Cuts, Get Roster Down to 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are all the moves Tampa Bay made on Sunday to get their roster from 91 down to 53 active spots:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 TE Kenny Fletcher Jr.<\/p>\n<p>TERMINATED CONTRACT (vested veterans) (3):<\/p>\n<p>PLACED ON INJURED RESERVE (eligible to return) (2):<\/p>\n<p>Many of the players the Bucs put on waivers will be prime candidates to return to the team&#8217;s practice squad if they are not claimed by another team. NFL practice squads can accommodate a lot of returning players with 16 spots; in the Bucs&#8217; case specifically, they can carry 17 players on the practice squad this season if they bring back tackle Paul Rubelt, a German native who carries a roster exemption thanks to the International Players Pathway program.<\/p>\n<p>As has been the case the past\u00a0three\u00a0seasons, game-day elevation options allows the team to utilize\u00a0those players frequently throughout the season.\u00a0Though some of those spots could be filled by players from other teams, the Buccaneers&#8217; initial practice squad of the season is usually made up largely of players the team cut the day before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are all the moves Tampa Bay made on Sunday to get their roster from 91 down to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[589,13332,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-385721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-featured","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\/385721","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=385721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}