{"id":193762,"date":"2025-07-09T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193762\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:52:09","slug":"bucs-tackle-tristan-wirfs-to-miss-start-of-season-after-knee-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193762\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs tackle Tristan Wirfs to miss start of season after knee surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__body-float article__body-float-left\">TAMPA \u2014 The Bucs will start the season without All-Pro tackle Tristan Wirfs, who underwent surgery on his right knee Tuesday and likely will miss at least the first couple of games of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body-float article__body-float-left\">Wirfs aggravated a right knee injury that forced him to miss one game last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body-float article__body-float-left\">The Bucs scheduled arthroscopic surgery Tuesday, and some additional minor damage was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body-float article__body-float-left\">Wirfs likely will begin the season on the physically unable to perform list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body-float article__body-float-left\">It\u2019s a big blow for the Bucs. Wirfs protects the blind side of quarterback Baker Mayfield, one of his closest friends on the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body-float article__body-float-left\">The Bucs signed former 49ers left tackle Charlie Heck in free agency. He is likely to replace Wirfs to start the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body-align article__body-align-center\">\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/newsletters\/sports-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up for our Sports Today newsletter<\/a> to get daily updates on the Bucs, Rays, Lightning and college football across Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Every weekday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/podcasts\/\">tune into our Sports Day Tampa Bay podcast<\/a> to hear reporter Rick Stroud break down the biggest stories in Tampa Bay sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Never miss out on the latest with your favorite Tampa Bay sports teams. Follow our coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBTimes_Sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">X<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TampaBayTimesSports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 The Bucs will start the season without All-Pro tackle Tristan Wirfs, who underwent surgery on his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,6,26394,26393,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-193762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-section-bucs","12":"tag-section-sports","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114823846410383834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193762","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=193762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}