{"id":353293,"date":"2025-09-09T04:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/353293\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T04:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:17:12","slug":"buccaneers-rookie-wr-emeka-egbuka-called-his-game-winning-td-catch-before-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/353293\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers Rookie WR Emeka Egbuka Called His Game Winning TD Catch Before It Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" Todd Kirkland. Getty Images.<\/p>\n

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers got a 4th Quarter comeback win over a division opponent in Atlanta yesterday and their rookie Wide Receiver predicted the future before it happened.<\/p>\n

With the Bucs down 20-17 and driving for a go ahead TD or game tying field goal when the first round pick out of Ohio State decided to speak up in his first ever NFL game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cRight before he caught that last touchdown, he like called it,\u201d Evans said of Egbuka. \u201cHe wanted a post route. He said, \u2018I\u2019m about to game one.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in the huddle and [Egbuka] said we need to run this certain play and I\u2019m going to game [the cornerback],\u201d Evans said. \u201cAnd I was just like, \u2018Maybe we do need to run it.\u2019 And then literally he runs the post and touchdown, next play.\u201d – via JoeBucsFan.com<\/p>\n

But not only speaking up, he did what he said he was gonna do.<\/p>\n

This rookie is special and I can’t wait to watch him again next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Kirkland. Getty Images. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers got a 4th Quarter comeback win over a division opponent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[63205,63202,657,211,3334,63203,6880,32495,3174,7,853,9205,63200,63206,6,63201,63204,704,250,2597,2596,63199],"class_list":{"0":"post-353293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-4th-quarter-comeback","9":"tag-atlanta-yesterday","10":"tag-barstool-sports","11":"tag-buccaneers","12":"tag-cornerback","13":"tag-division-opponent","14":"tag-evans","15":"tag-field-goal","16":"tag-first-round-pick","17":"tag-football","18":"tag-game","19":"tag-go","20":"tag-last-touchdown","21":"tag-next-play","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-post-route","24":"tag-rookie-wide-receiver","25":"tag-tampa-bay","26":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","27":"tag-tampabay","28":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","29":"tag-td-catch"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115172412344239266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353293","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=353293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}