{"id":789764,"date":"2026-03-03T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/789764\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:00:16","slug":"akheem-mesidor-and-the-bucs-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/789764\/","title":{"rendered":"Akheem Mesidor And The Bucs – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tAkheem Mesidor And The Bucs
\nMarch 3rd, 2026 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Joe knows a sect of Bucs fans wants the team to draft the best available edge rusher and hope for the best.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an understandable thought process. Come the draft in late April, the Bucs will be desperate for an edge rusher if they don\u2019t sign one in free agency.<\/p>\n

Current Bucs edge rusher YaYa Diaby is good but not close to great. At 29, Anthony Nelson is career backup. Chris Braswell is invisible and second-year edge rusher David Walker has never played in a preseason or regular season game.<\/p>\n

That collective reality represents a problem for a 2026 Bucs team with a goal of postseason glory.<\/p>\n

Among the various draft mavens, Joe is a fan of longtime NFL.com film guru Lance Zierlein. The son of a renowned former NFL offensive coach, Zierlein is all about the film and he breaks down hundreds of prospects each year for the NFL in great detail.<\/p>\n

In his post-Combine mock draft yesterday, Zierlein placed University of Miami edge rusher Akheem Mesidor in the Bucs\u2019 lap at No. 15 overall.<\/p>\n

No surprise, Zierlein went to the tape<\/a> and says Mesidor can hit the ground running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akheem Mesidor And The Bucs March 3rd, 2026 Joe knows a sect of Bucs fans wants the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-789764","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\/116167024884156316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789764","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=789764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}