{"id":221428,"date":"2025-07-20T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/221428\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:05:18","slug":"jalen-mcmillans-production-from-late-last-year-carried-over-into-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/221428\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen McMillan&#8217;s production from late last year carried over into 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McMillan generated 37 catches for 461 yards with eight touchdowns. Like many mid-round rookies, it took time for the young wideout to hit his stride. Down the stretch, the third-round pick took off. In the final five games, he generated seven touchdowns, 316 yards and 24 catches.<\/p>\n<p>Were it not for the Bucs bringing back Godwin &#8212; whose availability to open the season remains cloudy &#8212; and drafting Egbuka in the first round, McMillan would be on dang near every offseason list to make a giant leap forward in production in 2025. The wideout flashed immense upside last season when given greater opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Considering Godwin&#8217;s injury potentially lingering and Egbuka getting his feet wet, McMillan has a chance to prove he deserves reps early in camp and into the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>With Evans entering the twilight of his career, the Bucs ensured in the last two drafts that they wouldn&#8217;t fall off at receiver when he eventually walks away. If McMillan and Egbuka grow into the next great Bucs duo, it would be a gaudy feather in Jason Licht&#8217;s cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McMillan generated 37 catches for 461 yards with eight touchdowns. Like many mid-round rookies, it took time for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[1227,211,7,4080,88,6,609,4267,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-221428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jalen-mcmillan","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221428","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=221428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}