{"id":646872,"date":"2026-01-02T01:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/646872\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:16","slug":"week-18-injury-report-for-the-bucs-matchup-with-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/646872\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 18 Injury report for the Bucs matchup with the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> are coming off losses in seven of their last eight games, and yet they still can win their division in 2025. However, they do need to defeat the Panthers<\/a> in Week 18 and rely on the Saints<\/a> to defeat the Falcons.<\/p>\n

The Thursday practice report is also going to give game designations, and with that came some positive news to look at.<\/p>\n

The injuries have piled up, as we said, but some players are making progress in their return, or have returned altogether. Here is how the injuries and practice status shook down in the report the team released on Thursday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ruled Out<\/p>\n

CB Jamel Dean (shoulder)<\/p>\n

DE Anthony Nelson (knee)<\/p>\n

Questionable<\/p>\n

DL Calijah Kancey (pectoral)<\/p>\n

No Longer on the Injury Report<\/p>\n

WR Mike Evans (rest)<\/p>\n

OT Luke Goedeke (ankle)<\/p>\n

OT Tristan Wirfs (toe)<\/p>\n

TE Devin Culp (knee)<\/p>\n

QB Baker Mayfield (knee, shoulder)<\/p>\n

CB Benjamn Morrison (hamstring)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are coming off losses in seven of their last eight games, and yet they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[247,265,6265,34250,1838,1842,210,211,4622,4625,235,260,58663,26436,2605,43888,6880,7,33920,20842,38755,7343,4623,2838,21661,1839,1458,700,330,5180,206,55,88,6,35196,676,245,338,236,397,9,266,209,704,250,2597,2596,23114,13221,23115],"class_list":{"0":"post-646872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","7":"tag-american","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-anthony","10":"tag-anthony-nelson","11":"tag-baker","12":"tag-baker-mayfield","13":"tag-bay","14":"tag-buccaneers","15":"tag-calijah","16":"tag-calijah-kancey","17":"tag-carolina","18":"tag-carolina-panthers","19":"tag-culp","20":"tag-dean","21":"tag-devin","22":"tag-devin-culp","23":"tag-evans","24":"tag-football","25":"tag-goedeke","26":"tag-hub","27":"tag-jamel","28":"tag-jamel-dean","29":"tag-kancey","30":"tag-luke","31":"tag-luke-goedeke","32":"tag-mayfield","33":"tag-mike","34":"tag-mike-evans","35":"tag-negative","36":"tag-nelson","37":"tag-new","38":"tag-new-orleans-saints","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-nfl","41":"tag-nfl-hub","42":"tag-orleans","43":"tag-overall","44":"tag-overall-negative","45":"tag-panthers","46":"tag-saints","47":"tag-sports","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-tampa","50":"tag-tampa-bay","51":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","52":"tag-tampabay","53":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","54":"tag-tristan","55":"tag-tristan-wirfs","56":"tag-wirfs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646872","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=646872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}