The Buccaneers have enjoyed a recent return to health for a number of key offensive players. Their defense will be without a full-time starter to close out the season, however.
The Bucs had some tough and unfortunate news on Monday as the team announced that they have placed starting cornerback Zyon McCollum on injured reserve with a hip injury.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced they have placed CB Zyon McCollum on injured reserve. This will sideline him for the rest of the regular season and the first game of the playoffs if Tampa Bay advances that far.
The injury bug is not going away for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as cornerback Zyon McCollum suffered a hip injury against the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday.
We witnessed a bit of a miracle in the Bucs’ embarrassing 24-20 loss to the previous two-win Saints. No, I’m not talking about cornerback Zyon McCollum actually picking off a pass.
All NFL players enter the season with high hopes, but sometimes seasons don't go as hoped. These 20 players have been some of the biggest disappointments early in the 2025 season.
Bucs cornerback Zyon McCollum has been at the heart of several defensive issues this year. After a promising 2024 season – and a significant, three-year, $48 million contract extension in August – McCollum has regressed considerably in 2025.
Cornerback Zyon McCollum has been a microcosm of the Bucs defense this year. Tons of talent. Lots of promise. Incredibly disappointing. To say McCollum has not lived up to the three-year, $48 million extension he signed just before this season began would be an understatement-and-a-half.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were throttled by the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA 34-7 in a game they were never really in after the first quarter.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles is holding out hope that starting cornerback Zyon McCollum will be available for Sunday’s Week 6 matchup against the San Francisco 49ers, despite a recent thumb procedure.
Just when we all think the Bucs might slightly be on the mend with their injuries, another issue comes about. Tampa Bay once again had a walk through practice on Wednesday because of all of their injured players.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' injury issues are going from ridiculous to surreal, it appears, and that's particularly the case when it comes to their cornerback room.
For years, Thanksgiving belonged to the NFL, but Christmas belonged to the NBA. Occasionally, an NFL game would fall on Christmas, but it was anomalous, even avoided if possible.
The Bucs got two key extensions in just under the wire as the 2025 regular season neared. The team locked up bookend right tackle Luke Goedeke to a four-year, $90 million contract while cornerback Zyon McCollum agreed to a three-year deal worth $48 million.
Two days before the start of his fourth NFL season, cornerback Zyon McCollum reached terms on an extension with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Friday, according to multiple media reports.
On September 6, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers landed a key defensive piece. Per Pro Football Talk, the team agreed to a three-year, $48M extension ($35.4M guaranteed) with cornerback Zyon McCollum. McCollum was originally a fifth-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.
The Bucs aren't done signing players to contract extensions just yet. Just a couple of days after inking a four-year deal with Luke Goedeke, Tampa Bay has agreed to a three-year extension with cornerback Zyon McCollum, per Adam Schefter of ESPN.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will begin their 2025 regular season on Sunday afternoon against the Atlanta Falcons. On Friday, the team reportedly agreed to a contract extension with cornerback Zyon McCollum, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Buccaneers CB Zyon McCollum admitted that he wants a new contract as the two sides are expected to start negotiating soon. “I let it creep in so it can motivate me and I can continue to play with that chip on my shoulder,” McCollum said, via Tampa Bay Times.
With the final year of his rookie contract looming, Buccaneers cornerback Zyon McCollum is pushing for a long-term deal. As training camp approaches, Tampa Bay is reportedly willing to consider extending the young defensive back, keeping him anchored in their secondary for years to come.
He has developed into a mainstay in the Buccaneers’ secondary while playing out the first three years of his rookie pact. The pending 2026 free agent is eligible for an extension, and that is his target.
The Buccaneers’ safeties have taken the majority of the team’s slot snaps over the past three years, but reports out of their spring practices indicate that head coach Todd Bowles could slide one of his outside cornerbacks into the nickel in 2025.
Baker Mayfield and wide receiver Mike Evans mentioned earlier in the week that they wanted "to play for something a little bit bigger" than just a win against the rival Saints.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are gearing up to hit the field in 2024, and when they do, their cornerback corps will look a bit different. The team traded away cornerback Carlton Davis III in the offseason, sending him to the Detroit Lions to earn the pick that would eventually nab Washington wideout Jalen McMillan.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Zyon McCollum has seen his fair share of action as a rotational player his first few years, but now, he's set to take a step up in 2024.
Drafting offensive linemen in the first round is seldom sexy, but as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers know, if you draft the right one it can produce some backend sexiness in the form of wins — lots of them.