{"id":113869,"date":"2025-08-27T13:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113869\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:55:09","slug":"desmond-watson-the-heaviest-player-in-nfl-history-released-by-tampa-bay-bucs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113869\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Watson, the heaviest player in NFL history, released by Tampa Bay Bucs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-edd729\" class=\"body-graf\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The heaviest player in NFL history may not get a chance to play in the league.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-82e2a9\" class=\"body-graf\">Desmond Watson was among the players released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ba4c1f\" class=\"body-graf\">Watson, who played at Florida, was signed after going undrafted in April. He weighed 464 pounds at the school&#8217;s pro day and lost 25 to 30 pounds before the draft but didn&#8217;t get a chance to practice with the team because he didn&#8217;t lose enough weight. He spent training camp on the non-football injury list.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/250827-desmond-washington-buccaneers-mn-0850-a6e91c.jpg\" alt=\"Defensive lineman Desmond Watson\" height=\"1200\" width=\"1800\"\/>Defensive lineman Desmond Watson warms up during a Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie workout in May.Cliff Welch \/ Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-41370f\" class=\"body-graf\">&#8220;He&#8217;s still working. Job&#8217;s not finished,&#8221; agent EJ Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e34b69\" class=\"body-graf\">The 6-foot-6 defensive tackle had been working with a team nutritionist and the team didn&#8217;t say what would be an ideal playing weight for him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-1d738c\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">&#8220;The door is not closed on him, but if you don&#8217;t practice, you&#8217;re probably not going to make this team,&#8221; Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see where we are in a couple weeks and we&#8217;ll circle back and we&#8217;ll go from there. We&#8217;re in the last week of camp. If you&#8217;re not practicing, you&#8217;re not going to play. He&#8217;s been working hard, we had a good talk, and we&#8217;ll circle back and see where he&#8217;s at.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The heaviest player in NFL history may not get a chance to play in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-113869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}