{"id":166708,"date":"2025-06-29T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166708\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T02:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:22:10","slug":"buccaneers-wide-receiver-ranked-in-nfls-bounce-back-players-for-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/166708\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers’ Wide Receiver Ranked in NFL’s ‘Bounce-Back’ Players for 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buccaneers’ Wide Receiver Ranked in NFL’s ‘Bounce-Back’ Players for 2025<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Chris Godwin was lost for the season last year in a Week 7 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking forward to his return in 2025.<\/p>\n

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Godwin was leading the NFL with 50 catches and 576 yards when he went down last season. He also had posted five touchdowns.<\/p>\n

The Bucs are hoping for a healthy return in 2025 where they can add him to a re-tooled wideout room that includes former Ohio State Buckeyes receiver Emeka Egbuka, who general manager Jason Licht grabbed with the No. 19 overall pick in the first round this year.<\/p>\n

Bleacher Report’s Moe Moton has Godwin No. 8<\/a> on his list of the top bounce-back candidates for 2025.<\/p>\n

“Before Chris Godwin dislocated his ankle in Week 7 of the previous season, he averaged 82.3 receiving yards per game, his second-highest rate in a single term,” Moton wrote<\/a>. “Some managers have concerns about Godwin because of his recovery timetable, the Buccaneers losing offensive coordinator Liam Coen and the addition of rookie first-round wideout Emeka Egbuka.\u00a0While those factors cloud Godwin’s outlook, he remains the Buccaneers’ most dynamic receiver, still in his prime. At 31, Mike Evans barely kept his 1,000-yard receiving season streak alive last year. Entering his second term, Jalen McMillan is in the early stages of development. Egbuka has to earn quarterback Baker Mayfield’s trust as a reliable receiver.<\/p>\n

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“The Buccaneers promoted pass game coordinator Josh Grizzard to replace Coen. So, they won’t go through a complete reset in the passing game. If healthy, Godwin will remain a key playmaker in what could be an aggressive aerial attack. In 2021 and 2022, he finished 15th<\/a> and 19th<\/a>, respectively, in fantasy scoring among wide receivers.”<\/p>\n

Related: Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield Compared to 3-Time Super Bowl Champ<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Buccaneers Just Miss Top 10 NFL Power Rankings Placement<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 28, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers’ Wide Receiver Ranked in NFL’s ‘Bounce-Back’ Players for 2025 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After Chris Godwin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[1842,117,211,699,702,7,4080,7778,700,22282,6,69,704,250,2597,2596,6603],"class_list":{"0":"post-166708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-baker-mayfield","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-buccaneers","11":"tag-chris-godwin","12":"tag-emeka-egbuka","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-jalen-mcmillan","15":"tag-jason-licht","16":"tag-mike-evans","17":"tag-moe-moton","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","20":"tag-tampa-bay","21":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","24":"tag-the-bucs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114764273700538428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}