{"id":393067,"date":"2026-09-07T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393067\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:16:08","slug":"tampa-bay-bucs-name-captains-for-the-2026-nfl-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393067\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Bucs name captains for the 2026 NFL regular season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have selected their team captains for the 2026 season, with six veterans earning the honor through a vote by their teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Quarterback Baker Mayfield, tackle Tristan Wirfs, wide receiver Chris Godwin, nose tackle Vita Vea, linebacker Alex Anzalone and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. will wear the captain\u2019s \u201cC\u201d this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Mayfield, Wirfs, Vea and Winfield return as captains from the 2025 team. Godwin returns to the role after previously serving as a captain in 2023, while Anzalone joins the leadership group in his first season with Tampa Bay after serving as a captain during each of his five seasons with the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The changes come after two longtime Buccaneers captains departed during the offseason. Lavonte David retired after 14 seasons with Tampa Bay, while Mike Evans signed with the San Francisco 49ers in free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tampa Bay opens the regular season Sunday on the road against the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium for Week 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have selected their team captains for the 2026 season, with six veterans earning the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,2989,137,136],"class_list":["post-393067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393067","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=393067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}