{"id":245767,"date":"2025-10-23T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245767\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:51:10","slug":"buccaneers-face-injury-depleted-roster-ahead-of-saints-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/245767\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers face injury-depleted roster ahead of Saints game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jenna LaineOct 22, 2025, 05:08 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Jenna Laine covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN. She started covering the Bucs for ESPN in 2016, but she has covered the team since 2009. Jenna is a former cheerleader at the University of South Florida and speaks to the consistency of the program as being one of the top best in the nation.<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> wide receiver Mike Evans<\/a> has been placed on injured reserve after suffering a broken collarbone in the team’s 24-9 Monday night loss to the Detroit Lions<\/a>, the team announced.<\/p>\n

A source told ESPN that Evans will undergo surgery this week to repair his collarbone, as first reported by NFL Network. Evans also suffered a concussion during the game.<\/p>\n

The hope is that he will be back before the end of the regular season, coach Todd Bowles said on Wednesday, adding that Evans is “doing well.”<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be touch and go,” Bowles said. “We’ll see as we get toward the end of the year. It’s definitely going to be the end of the year — hopefully it’s before that — if we get to the playoffs, we go from there. It may be in the playoffs. It depends on how it heals.”<\/p>\n

Outside linebacker Haason Reddick<\/a> also sustained an injury during Monday’s game. The team is still awaiting results from an MRI, but Bowles said Reddick will miss some time.<\/p>\n

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The team will be without running back Bucky Irving<\/a> (foot sprain, shoulder subluxation) and wide receiver Chris Godwin Jr.<\/a> (fibula) in this week’s game at the New Orleans Saints<\/a>. Bowles was asked if the fibula injury being on the same leg as Godwin’s surgically repaired left ankle puts his season in jeopardy. “It’s a week-to-week thing right now,” he responded. “I don’t think it puts his season in jeopardy.”<\/p>\n

The team is also still without wide receiver Jalen McMillan<\/a>, who suffered a sprained neck in the second preseason game and has been on injured reserve. McMillan’s target has always been after the Week 9 bye, but no specific date was given then, nor is there one now. “He’s getting better,” Bowles said. “I don’t have a specific date for you either, but he’s definitely getting better. When he gets out of the [neck] brace we’ll see, but he’s definitely feeling better.”<\/p>\n

The team has signed offensive lineman Michael Jordan off the practice squad to fill Evans’ roster spot. The Bucs have also signed former Denver Broncos<\/a> and Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> wide receiver Brandon Johnson<\/a> to their practice squad to fill Jordan’s spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna LaineOct 22, 2025, 05:08 PM ET CloseJenna Laine covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN. She started…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-245767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245767","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=245767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}