{"id":309622,"date":"2026-10-19T03:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309622\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T03:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T03:56:11","slug":"bucky-irving-held-in-check-by-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/309622\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucky Irving held in check by Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa Bay Buccaneers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tampa Bay Buccaneers&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> RB Bucky Irving carried 19 times for 46 yards and caught two of three targets for three yards in a Week 6 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Why It Matters: Irving&#8217;s fantasy owners were hoping he was returning to his early-2025 form after 175 total yards and two scores against Dallas last week. Instead, he posted his lowest yards-per carry average of the season (2.4). Other than last week&#8217;s outing, Irving has 351 total yards in the other five games with just one touchdown. He&#8217;s getting his touches so he remains a RB2 option, and he could push for RB1 production in Week 7 against the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Carolina Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Carolina Panthers&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a>&#8216; leaky run defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Bucky Irving carried 19 times for 46 yards and caught two of three targets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-309622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}