{"id":792157,"date":"2026-03-04T20:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:09:15","slug":"e-j-speed-part-iii-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/792157\/","title":{"rendered":"E.J. Speed (Part III) &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tE.J. Speed (Part III)<br \/>\nMarch 4th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Speed.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-394823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Speed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>Twice Joe wrote about inside linebacker E.J. Speed as a quality free agent target for the Bucs last year. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It didn\u2019t happen. Speed went to the ferocious Houston defense on a 1-year, $3.5 million contract. Instead, Bucs fans were treated to the SirVocea Dennis experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speed, 30, is a pending free agent again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was a rotational inside linebacker for the Texans (9 starts) and was lauded there for his fiery play and (gasp!) work on special teams. Speed had 62 tackles in 16 games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2024, Speed had a whopping 142 tackles as a full-time starter for Indianapolis. He spent six seasons with the Colts after being their fifth-round pick in 2019 out of the Division II ranks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe sees Speed \u2014 again \u2014 as a value-priced player who can produce. Perhaps Speed wants a team where he\u2019ll get more playing time?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If Speed was good enough to start for Houston, that\u2019s enough for Joe to hand him a Bucs helmet.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/02\/quincy-williams-the-jets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quincy Williams &amp; The Bucs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"E.J. Speed (Part III) March 4th, 2026 Twice Joe wrote about inside linebacker E.J. Speed as a quality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792158,"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-792157","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\/116172724123323943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792157","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=792157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}