{"id":806005,"date":"2026-08-07T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806005\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:54:09","slug":"back-to-school-for-keionte-scott-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/806005\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To School For Keionte Scott &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBack To School For Keionte Scott<br \/>\nAugust 7th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/scott-0510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399103\" class=\"wp-image-399103 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/scott-0510.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-399103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rookie DB Keionte Scott.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rookie Bucs cornerback Keionte Scott played six years of college football and he turns 25 next week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is no ordinary rookie and he\u2019s not being treated as such.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As Joe has documented, Scott has been playing all over the Bucs; defensive backfield in training camp \u2014 safety, cornerback and nickel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It appears the Bucs want him to be their starting nickel. And that\u2019s a Todd Bowles thing: Tykee Smith was a rookie nickel (2024), taking over for then-rookie Christian Izien (2023). And Jacob Parrish got that done last year (2025) as a rookie. Why Bowles doesn\u2019t seem to want an experienced nickel is unclear to Joe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Scott told The Pat &amp; Aaron Show on <a href=\"https:\/\/957wdae.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WDAE radio<\/a> that practicing verywhere is setting him up to be an informed and prepared nickel. He sees it, in part, as a learning exercise to help him understand where his defensive back brothers are supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe just hopes Scott\u2019s maturity and experience makes him a great fit as a rookie nickel that can hit the ground running. There is no question in Joe\u2019s mind that Joe Burrow will be salivating thinking about testing Scott on opening day \u2014 repeatedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back To School For Keionte Scott August 7th, 2026 Rookie DB Keionte Scott. Rookie Bucs cornerback Keionte Scott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5961,5960,399,398,396,397,99,1824],"class_list":["post-806005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806005","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=806005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}