{"id":236185,"date":"2025-10-19T11:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236185\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:26:07","slug":"buccaneers-optimistic-mike-evans-and-emeka-egbuka-can-both-play-monday-night-vs-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236185\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers optimistic Mike Evans and Emeka Egbuka can both play Monday night vs. Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers wide receivers Mike Evans and Emeka Egbuka both have a good chance of playing Monday night against the Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Although they\u2019re officially being termed game-time decisions with hamstring injuries, there\u2019s optimism in Tampa Bay that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46637959\/bucs-receivers-egbuka-evans-game-decisions-lions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">both can play<\/a>, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Evans has been out since injuring his hamstring in Week Three. Egbuka, who has emerged in the absence of Evans and Chris Godwin as the Buccaneers\u2019 No. 1 receiver and one of the best rookies in the NFL this season, suffered his hamstring injury last week.<\/p>\n<p>If both can go, they\u2019ll put a lot of pressure on a depleted Lions secondary that will be missing four players on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers wide receivers Mike Evans and Emeka Egbuka both have a good chance of playing Monday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-236185","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\/236185","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=236185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}