TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Teddy Bridgewater is nearing a return to the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n
Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht said Bridgewater is visiting the team and the Bucs plan to sign him.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is visiting Tampa Bay, and the Bucs plan to sign him
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He will back up starter Baker Mayfield
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The 32-year-old signed with the Lions late last season to back up Jared Goff
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Bridgewater has played for eight teams in 12 NFL seasons<\/p>\n
The Buccaneers will be the eighth team in 12 seasons for the 32-year-old.<\/p>\n
Bridgewater coached his former high school in Miami to a Class 3A state championship last fall and then returned to the NFL in late December to serve as a backup to Jared Goff for the playoff-bound Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n
He would provide insurance for the four-time defending NFC South champions behind Baker Mayfield. The Buccaneers also have veteran Kyle Trask, who has thrown 11 passes in four seasons since he was a second-round pick in 2021.<\/p>\n
Mayfield returned to practice Tuesday after missing a couple of days because of a hand contusion.<\/p>\n
Bridgewater said last month that he was\u00a0suspended\u00a0from coaching Miami Northwestern High School because he provided players with financial benefits that he says he reported to the school.<\/p>\n
The first-round pick by Minnesota in 2014, Bridgewater is 33-32 as a starter and made the Pro Bowl after his second season, when he led the Vikings to an 11-5 record. He also spent time with the New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n
Bridgewater has completed 66.4% of his passes for 15,120 yards, 75 touchdowns, 47 interceptions and a 90.5 passer rating.<\/p>\n
Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard was an assistant coach in Miami in 2022 when Bridgewater backed up Tua Tagovailoa.<\/p>\n
Defensive line coach Charlie Strong was Bridgewater\u2019s head coach at Louisville.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay\u2019s quarterback room also includes Michael Pratt and Connor Bazelak. Pratt, a seventh-round pick out of Tulane by the Green Bay Packers in 2024, signed to the Buccaneers\u2019 practice squad last August. He has been sidelined by a back injury. Bazelak signed as an undrafted free agent out of Bowling Green, where he spent the final two of his six college seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Teddy Bridgewater is nearing a return to the NFL with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Buccaneers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[12606,1615,1613,2910,211,380,20252,7,88,6,10738,11374,9,266,209,704,250,15556,2597,2596,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-265785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-buccaneers","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-sports","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-professional-football","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-news","22":"tag-tampa","23":"tag-tampa-bay","24":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","25":"tag-tampa-bay-bucs","26":"tag-tampabay","27":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","28":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114980644742532540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265785","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=265785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}