The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are almost set to head into their 2026 season, with a preseason game coming up on Saturday night against the Kansas City Chiefs and one more week of joint practices with the Jacksonville Jaguars the following week.
If you aren’t a fan of Bucs rookie middle linebacker Josiah Trotter yet, you probably will be after he was featured in a new MIC’D UP video by the Buccaneers.
During an appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show," NFL insider Mike Garafolo of ESPN/NFL Network shared more information about contract talks that previously occurred involving Mayfield's camp and the Buccaneers.
The Buccaneers take on the Chiefs this Saturday and there are two key areas to monitor once kickoff happens. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers face the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday in the Week 3 of the 2026 preseason, and the biggest test for Todd Bowles’ squad centers on a position group that has been under the microscope for months.
The Bucs and Vita Vea created a win-win scenario with Vea’s contract extension, which makes Tampa Bay’s defensive line one of the league’s elite units with his return to action.
Vita Vea spoke to the media for the first time since he signed a one-year, $30 million contract extension with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after a very contentious process that saw the veteran nose tackle publicly ask for a trade to force the franchise's hand.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield didn't play in the team's first preseason game against the New York Jets, but is now lined up to see his first preseason action since 2024 when the Bucs host the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday.
The Bucs came to a resolution on one ongoing contract situation on Wednesday evening with defensive tackle Vita Vea agreeing on a new deal that goes through 2027.
The Worldwide Leader in Sports is seeing Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield eventually laughing his way to the bank with a new contract with the NFC South franchise.
Vita Vea ended his contract standoff with the Buccaneers this week, signing an extension that will pay him a fully guaranteed $48MM over the next two years, per ESPN’s Jenna Laine.
New offensive coordinator, Rachaad White is gone, and no more Mike Evans. That is what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking at, situation-wise, heading into the 2026 NFL season.
The wait was over for Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans as two-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Vita Vea and the franchise agreed to a one-year contract extension.
Be it stars returning from late-season injuries to starter-level players who missed most or all of last season, the NFL features a host of rehab odysseys to follow as training camps near.
The NFL’s shift to a passing league has been a financial boon for quarterbacks, but they’re not the only players laughing all the way to the bank. It has also inflated the compensation for the players tasked with stopping them.
Pewter Report’s Camp Diary series is back for the Bucs’ 2026 training camp in a new format with video interviews in addition to partial transcriptions.
Vita Vea is ready to hit the ground running after he and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers finally agreed to a one-year contract extension for $30 million. Having not trained the entire summer, the defensive tackle is starting to get the reps in ahead of the season opener.
The Bucs completed their fourth practice in a row during the week. With a preseason game looming on Saturday, Tampa Bay didn’t practice for too long, getting just a little bit of work in.
Since Jake Browning signed with the Bucs in free agency, the assumption was that the veteran would be Baker Mayfield’s top backup. Not so fast. With how highly the organization has viewed Jalon Daniels since signing him as an undrafted free agent, a competition for the backup quarterback job has been brewing for quite some time now.
Vita Vea is back in the fold with the Tampa Bay Bucs after signing a one-year extension, and he suggests he will stay in Tampa as long as Todd Bowles is coach.
Buccaneers wide receivers Emeka Egbuka and Jalen McMillan were both described as “day-to-day, week-to-week,” by head coach Todd Bowles on Tuesday, per ESPN’s Jenna Laine.