{"id":273013,"date":"2025-08-09T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/273013\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T01:00:17","slug":"stunning-nfl-reporter-goes-viral-ahead-of-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/273013\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Stunning’ NFL Reporter Goes Viral Ahead Of Preseason Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Stunning’ NFL Reporter Goes Viral Ahead Of Preseason Opener<\/a> originally appeared on The Spun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Buccaneers reporter Aileen Hnatiuk is turning up the heat for the NFL’s first full week of preseason games.<\/p>\n

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Hnatiuk started her career at NBC29 WVIR in Charlottesville, Virginia. She then moved to Louisiana to cover the New Orleans Saints and LSU for FOX44 WGMB. After the 2022 season came to an end, she shared a photo of herself<\/a> at the team’s facility that received over 40,000 likes and 19.2 million views on social media. That led to her becoming a very popular reporter in the NFL community.<\/p>\n

Although she enjoyed her time in New Orleans, Hnatiuk decided to head over to the Sunshine State to cover the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for WFLA News.<\/p>\n

“Aileen Hnatiuk is ecstatic to be back home,” her bio for WFLA states. “She grew up in Weeki Wachee Springs and has moved all over the southeast region of the country. Hnatiuk went to college at ECU in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was a member of the Women\u2019s Volleyball team and Chi Omega Rho Zeta.”<\/p>\n

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Before the Buccaneers stepped on the field for their preseason opener, Hnatiuk shared a photo on X that immediately went viral.<\/p>\n

Plenty of NFL fans offered their thoughts on Hnatiuk’s training camp photo. Most of them had kind things to say about her appearance.<\/p>\n

“The hottest reporter award goes to…,” one fan commented.<\/p>\n

“Aileen you rock,” a second fan wrote.<\/p>\n

“Wow! reason to follow the Bucs this season,” another fan said.<\/p>\n

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Hnatiuk will be at Raymond James Stadium this Saturday to cover the Buccaneers’ preseason opener against the Titans.<\/p>\n

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

‘Stunning’ NFL Reporter Goes Viral Ahead Of Preseason Opener<\/a> first appeared on The Spun on Aug 8, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Aug 8, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Stunning’ NFL Reporter Goes Viral Ahead Of Preseason Opener originally appeared on The Spun. Tampa Bay Buccaneers reporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[52897,211,7,52898,896,55,6,17686,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-273013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-aileen-hnatiuk","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-hnatiuk","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-preseason-opener","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114996106436996828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273013","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=273013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}