{"id":758023,"date":"2026-02-17T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/758023\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:15:16","slug":"tremaine-edmunds-and-the-bucs-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/758023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tremaine Edmunds And The Bucs – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tTremaine Edmunds And The Bucs
\nFebruary 17th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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Could Bears really cut him?<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know if Bucs icon Lavonte David will return for a 15th season. Even if he does, the Bucs need to be proactive in bringing in a quality off-the-ball linebacker.<\/p>\n

(Sorry, SirVocea Dennis is not a starting NFL linebacker.)<\/p>\n

As we saw yesterday with the Dolphins shaving contracts from their roster, it\u2019s cap season where teams are trying to clear cap space to either go get a free agent or two or trying to get under the salary cap.<\/p>\n

Currently, the Bears are well over their cap which leads Matt Okada of NFL.com to think Chicago may turn loose<\/a> middle linebacker Tremaine Edmunds, even though he is a quality player.<\/p>\n

Edmunds remained a solid and consistent linebacker in his eighth NFL season (and third with the Bears), extending his unbroken streak of seasons with 100+ tackles along with four interceptions and a fumble recovery. If he was making solid starter money \u2014 say $10 million a year \u2014 there\u2019d be little to no reason to move on (except that Chicago is $5.3 million over the cap right now). Unfortunately, that\u2019s not the case. Edmunds\u2019 AVV of $18 million is third-highest at his position, and his cap hit of $17.4 million is fourth-highest. Most importantly, the Bears can save a monster $15 million against the cap by letting him go, with just $2.4 million in dead money.<\/p>\n

Last summer in his annual poll of NFL suits, coaches and scouts, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN had Edmunds at the sixth-best<\/a> off-the-ball linebacker, right ahead of David, who was No. 7.<\/p>\n

Edmunds will enter his ninth NFL season this fall and the Virginia Tech product has never not had 100 tackles in a season.<\/p>\n

If somehow the Bears deem Edmunds expendable due to the salary cap, Bucs AC\/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht needs to be all over Edmunds to come to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Edmunds has only known frigid weather, having played for the Bills and Bears in his career. Time for him to enjoy some decent weather for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tremaine Edmunds And The Bucs February 17th, 2026 Could Bears really cut him? We don\u2019t know if Bucs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-758023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116085452890843944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758023","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=758023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}