The Tampa Bay Buccaneers used last week's mini-bye after Thursday night's loss to the Chicago Bears to get a few key players closer to full strength before Sunday's matchup against the undefeated Green Bay Packers. So we'll have to look ahead to next year. Ronald Jones and Peyton Barber have plenty to worry about now that Vea’s gotten a taste for the end zone. The 6-foot-7, 364-pound blocker tallied a 5.11 40-yard dash at the 2020 Scouting Combine, blowing the Internet's mind in the process. Vea is just the second defensive player in the Buccaneers' 44-year history to score an offensive touchdown. Before he was a 347-pound monster running faster than anyone his size should ever be able to, Washington defensive lineman Vita Vea was striking fear into the hearts of high school … https://draftwire.usatoday.com/2018/03/04/vita-vea-high-school-running-back-videa/, You want your team to pick Shaquem Griffin in the 2018 NFL draft, Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa goes 2-for-2 in NFL debut. Tampa Bay's 276.8 yards allowed per game is third worst in the NFL. I bring up DVOA because it's a good, quick way to show that, yes, the Bucs' defense has improved over the course of the season, which is what Mike is asking me to add to his own 2019-over-2018 analysis. What's going on with him? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have elevated defensive lineman Jeremiah Ledbetter from the practice squad to their game-day roster for Sunday's Week 6 matchup against the Green Bay Packers. DVOA is a percentage, so a team with a DVOA of 10.0% is 10 percent better than the average team, and a quarterback with a DVOA of -20.0% is 20 percent worse than the average quarterback. in week 3â¦. And, yes, the Bucs got Nick Foles benched, but he does have a pretty good track record, especially against Tampa Bay. After that, however, the results have been pretty uniformly good. And who knows if there will be any further additions at safety between now and the next round of spring practices. Vita Vea (50) Defensive Lineman - 2017 Second-Team All-America (USA Today, Sports Illustrated, SB Nation and TheAthletic.com) 2017 All-Pac-12 First Team 2017. (Okay, I'm kidding, but that is an actual verifiable number.). Thanks from a displaced Bucs fan in Arizona! If you haven't seen the footage of Vea as a high school running back, do yourself a favor and check it out. But any quarterback in the league can tear up a bad pass defense if he has time to throw, as we saw in the last couple years. I'm not specifying saying that he's specifically heavier or lighter than that, just that it's probably not exactly 347 pounds. - Victor N., via email to tbbsocial@buccaneers.nfl.com. “It’s a long, long list," Bucs head coach Bruce Arians told the media Friday of his game-time decisions for Sunday. " Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. For now, let's hope he comes back fully healthy from his foot issues and can jump back into the safety competition at full speed. One of those games was against the Lions' David Blough, an undrafted rookie making his first NFL start. What Vea did was impressive precisely because it wasn't all that gimmicky, like the note about his weight is. Here are my picks for the best combine performers at every position from this year's event: More importantly, weights can change throughout a player's career, even during the course of a single season. Several coaches called the pass to Vea a "reward" for the awesome work he's done as a lead blocker, such as his taking out of three Cardinals in rapid success on Peyton Barber's game-winning touchdown run in Week 10. He played college football at Washington. I encourage you all to watch 87 seconds of Vea looking like a nearly 300-pound Barry Sanders in the backfield at Milpitas (chase-down tackle at the 0:40 mark). The smooth route and silky hands displayed on his catch were just more examples of his rare talents, which are rarely doted on by the television cameras the way a touchdown pass will be. Tyree Jackson | QB | Buffalo. The first round of the 2019 NFL draft was a whirlwind of epic proportions, thanks to a deep class of defensive talent and a truckload of trades during the second half. © 2005-2020 CBS Interactive. There's a handful of other non-skill-position players who have scored offensive touchdowns for the Buccaneers, most notably tackle Donald Penn, who did it twice. But as we saw last Sunday in Detroit, those plans can go awry in a hurry with injuries. 250+ three-page scouting profiles - advanced stats, 3-year grades, player comps, combine data and Senior Bowl grades - for the 2021 draft class. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The biggest, strangest job interview in professional sports has concluded, as the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine wrapped up earlier this week in Indianapolis. The other was Warren Sapp, who caught two touchdown passes in a similar way to how Vea scored, and you probably would not have guessed that he finished his Buc tenure with more scores on offense than defense (one).
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