{"id":387491,"date":"2026-09-01T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387491\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:10:08","slug":"lingering-issues-for-emeka-egbuka-jalen-mcmillan-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/387491\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lingering Issues&#8221; For Emeka Egbuka, Jalen McMillan &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\u201cLingering Issues\u201d For Emeka Egbuka, Jalen McMillan<br \/>\nSeptember 1st, 2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-401081 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/RobinsonMcMillan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"236\" \/>Joe puts this in the \u201cbad news\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sara_Walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sara Walsh of NFL Network<\/a> is reporting today that receivers Emeka Egbuka (sprained toe) and Jalen McMillan (knee bruise) have \u201clingering issues\u201d and aren\u2019t locks to play in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Walsh says McMillan is running routes and is \u201cgetting there,\u201d and there\u2019s optimism he and Egbuka could play Week 1. Then Walsh started talking about how rookie receiver Ted Hurst is a favorite at One Buc Palace because he\u2019s been \u201cincredibly consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe isn\u2019t in a panic, but the Bucs very likely will need 28 points to beat the high-flying Bengals on the road in 12 short days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the loss of Mike Evans and Sterling Shepard (39 catches), Egbuka and McMillan are key components to a Bucs offense that terrifies other teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Egbuka and McMillan were not practicing in the part of today\u2019s session open to media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cLingering Issues\u201d For Emeka Egbuka, Jalen McMillan September 1st, 2026 Joe puts this in the \u201cbad news\u201d category.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10998,10997,135,2964,137,136],"class_list":["post-387491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387491","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=387491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}