{"id":762206,"date":"2026-02-19T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:05:26","slug":"the-chris-braswell-files-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762206\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chris Braswell Files &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tThe Chris Braswell Files<br \/>\nFebruary 18th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Braswellrightlong.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-380667 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Braswellrightlong.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>The Bucs say positive things about edge rusher Chris Braswell yet he doesn\u2019t play a lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That feels like a contradiction for a team that universally gets poor grades for talent at the position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Braswell played less last season than he did as a rookie. The 2024 second-round pick somehow couldn\u2019t crack the lineup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Renowned \u201cadvanced stats\u201d and data guru Aaron Schatz, writing for BSPN, says Braswell needs a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47955391\/nfl-2026-offseason-draft-trade-free-agency-change-scenery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">change of scenery<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bucs selected Braswell with the No. 57 pick in 2024, and the linebacker out of Alabama was supposed to be a talented pass rusher with good burst and a variety of pass-rushing moves. However, Braswell hasn\u2019t had much time on the field to show off those moves. He has never started a game in the NFL and has just 2.5 career sacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last season, he played less than 25% of defensive snaps in 11 contests and more than 50% of defensive snaps in just one game. The likely departure of\u00a0Haason Reddick\u00a0in free agency might open up a starting spot for Braswell, but it is more likely that Braswell needs to go to a new team with a new coaching staff in order to get his chance to finally reach his NFL potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Is Braswell just a slow-deveoping edge rusher like, for example, Trey Hendrickson was for the Saints? Or is Braswell a bust? Joe\u2019s not 100 percent sure. It\u2019s not like the Bucs run a factory when it comes to developing edge rushers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, Joe is not seeing anything special from Braswell, especially on fourth down as a core special teams player. Perhaps, at 6-3, 250 pounds, Brawell could play inside linebacker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chris Braswell Files February 18th, 2026 The Bucs say positive things about edge rusher Chris Braswell yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478132,"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-762206","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\/116096973767023134","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762206","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=762206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}