{"id":84720,"date":"2025-05-28T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84720\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:24:10","slug":"sights-and-sounds-from-day-1-of-tampa-bay-buccaneers-otas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/84720\/","title":{"rendered":"Sights and Sounds from Day 1 of Tampa Bay Buccaneers OTAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a data-autotag=\"0975654b-7314-4c6a-8b1d-0052f65c0335\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>\u00a0opened their first set of organized team activities on Tuesday, and there was a lot to take in.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" data-autotag=\"0975654b-7314-4c6a-8b1d-0052f65c0335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bucs<\/a> actually had a decent turnout of veterans who showed up even though they were under no obligation to do so. It speaks to how motivated this Bucs team is after yet another early playoff exit, despite a fourth straight NFC South division title.<\/p>\n<p>Some notable names that were seen at practice include Baker Mayfield, Antoine Winfield Jr., Yaya Diaby, and Calijah Kancey. Having that many leaders on both sides of the ball sets an excellent example for the rookies that are at camp, as well as the free agents they signed, so they know what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the sights and sounds from Day 1:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just saw them at rookie minicamp a few weeks back, but undrafted Bucs like Desmond Watson (56) and Shilo Sanders (28) here at OTAs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Bi3IWYFUH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7Bi3IWYFUH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Auman (@gregauman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregauman\/status\/1927374694916804746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lining up for punt returns early in Bucs practice: receivers Trey Palmer, Tez Johnson, Jalen McMillan, Kam Johnson, Emeka Egbuka \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Auman (@gregauman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregauman\/status\/1927377800345817131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Notably absent is OLB Haason Reddick, starting OTs Tristan Wirfs. T Luke Goedeke worked with a trainer on another field.Yes Baker Mayfield IS here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLSTROUD\/status\/1927398479984210138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 27, 2025<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u00a0opened their first set of organized team activities on Tuesday, and there was a lot to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[247,265,6478,13236,1838,1842,210,211,4622,4625,23448,7,1070,4623,1839,248,267,88,6,245,537,530,9,266,209,704,250,2597,2596,19897,23447,22119],"class_list":{"0":"post-84720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-antoine","11":"tag-antoine-winfield-jr","12":"tag-baker","13":"tag-baker-mayfield","14":"tag-bay","15":"tag-buccaneers","16":"tag-calijah","17":"tag-calijah-kancey","18":"tag-diaby","19":"tag-football","20":"tag-jr","21":"tag-kancey","22":"tag-mayfield","23":"tag-national","24":"tag-national-sports","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-nfl","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-positive","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-news","32":"tag-tampa","33":"tag-tampa-bay","34":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","35":"tag-tampabay","36":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","37":"tag-winfield","38":"tag-yaya","39":"tag-yaya-diaby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114584267383208968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84720","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=84720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}