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Getty Images The MRI on Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans‘ knee showed good news. Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said today that Evans is day to day after the MRI found the knee injury that knocked him out of yesterday’s game wasn’t significant. Arians said Evans had very little swelling and...

Getty Images The Buccaneers will not have linebacker Devin White back for their Wild Card game against the Washington Football Team. White was placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Friday, but the team did not announce the reason why he went on the list. Word was that he tested positive and...

Getty Images Washington defensive end Chase Young has placed Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady on notice. Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians has placed Chase Young on notice about placing Tom Brady on notice. Asked by reporters on Monday about Young’s “Tom Brady, I’m coming” line, Arians said (via...

Getty Images Home teams are usually favored in the playoffs, but in both the AFC and the NFC, the highest-seeded wild card is favored on the road against the lowest-seeded division winner. The Buccaneers opened as 6.5-point favorites on the road at the Washington Football Team, and that spread...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team is going to the playoffs after beating the Eagles and winning the NFC East on Sunday night. It is an outcome that few people predicted before the start of the season and no one changed their mind when the team opened the year with a 2-7 record. They...

Getty Images Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans went over 1,000 receiving yards for the seventh straight season on Sunday, but it wasn’t all happy news for him against the Falcons. Evans hurt his knee while trying to catch a Tom Brady pass in the end zone in the first half. He would not...

Getty Images The NFL announced the wild-card playoff schedule for next weekend. The most highly anticipated scheduling decision involved the Saints-Bears game. Saints running back Alvin Kamara is on the COVID-19 reserve list with a chance to play in the wild-card round only if his team was...

Getty Images Antonio Brown‘s contract with the Buccaneers included three $250,000 bonuses for 45 receptions, 600 receiving yards and/or six touchdowns if Tampa Bay made the postseason. The Bucs went into Sunday having already accomplished the playoff part of it, but the receiver entered with...

Getty Images The final day of the regular season is set to proceed as scheduled. NFL vice president of communications Brian McCarthy announced that all 16 games are set to go on as planned. There was no concern about 15 of the games on Sunday morning, but there was some question about the...

Getty Images The Buccaneers are playing their starters, trying to win to get the fifth seed and a trip to the NFC East winner. They are off to a good start. Tom Brady threw his fifth touchdown in five quarters and 37th of the season. That is the third most of his career. Brady went 3-for-3...

USA TODAY Sports Mike Evans went over 1,000 yards for the seventh consecutive season, but his day likely is done. The Buccaneers have to hope his season isn’t done after a scary injury in the end zone. Evans was helped off the field and carted to the locker room. He set an NFL record...

USA TODAY Sports The Buccaneers have ruled out receiver Mike Evans with a knee injury. The team surely hopes he can somehow return next week for the wild-card playoff game. Evans’ left knee buckled as the ground gave way underneath his foot with 20 seconds left in the first quarter. He left a...

Getty Images The Buccaneers hope Mike Evans can return for the postseason, but if he can’t, they still have plenty of weapons. They proved that after Evans left late in the first quarter with a left knee injury. Chris Godwin caught five passes for 133 yards and two touchdowns, and Antonio...

Getty Images The Patriots won’t be in the playoffs. Patriots practice-squad linebacker Jack Cichy apparently will be. The Buccaneers have announced that Cichy has been signed to their active roster in advance of Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Falcons. A sixth-round pick of the...

Getty Images The Super Bowl will be played early next month in Tampa, Florida. The pandemic currently is as bad in Florida as it ever has been. On Thursday, Florida set a record for single-day positive cases, with 17,192. Florida nevertheless continues to allow fans to attend pro football...

Getty Images Julio Jones‘ 2020 season is officially over. The Falcons declared the veteran wide receiver out with his hamstring injury. Jones has battled the hamstring injury year. He’ll finish with 771 yards on 51 receptions and three touchdowns in nine games. It’s the first time Jones won’t...

Getty Images The Buccaneers will be without two of their best defensive players for the regular season finale on Sunday — and possibly in the playoff opener as well. Buccaneers inside linebacker Devin White and outside linebacker Shaquil Barrett were both placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list...

Getty Images The Buccaneers announced another addition to the COVID-19 reserve list Friday. Defensive lineman Steve McLendon joins linebackers Devin White and Shaquil Barrett, who went on reserve/COVID-19 earlier in the day. None of the three will play Sunday, and it’s unknown whether the Bucs...

Getty Images Week 17 of the 2020 NFL season is a Sunday-only affair. All 32 teams in the league will be playing on Sunday as the league finalizes who is in the playoffs and what seeds they’ll get with a slate of games that culminates with Washington visiting Philadelphia. If Washington wins...

Getty Images The Buccaneers have three clear goals for Week 17. First, get to 11-5. Second, nail down the No. 5 seed in the NFC. Third, get receiver Mike Evans to 1,000 receiving yards. Evans currently has 960 receiving yards in 2020, his seventh NFL season. If it happens, Evans will become...