{"id":852492,"date":"2026-04-04T02:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/852492\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:48:22","slug":"the-return-of-nacho-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/852492\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return Of “Nacho” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tThe Return Of \u201cNacho\u201d
\nApril 3rd, 2026 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\"Nacho\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019s ba\u2019ack.<\/p>\n

Former Bucs defensive tackle Rakeem Nunez-Roches, known affectionately by his former teammates and fans as \u201cNacho,\u201d is coming home.<\/p>\n

A member of the Bucs\u2019 2020 Super Bowl team, Nacho left after the 2022 season to chase coin and signed with the Giants. Joe can\u2019t blame him. Only so many years in a man\u2019s body to make bank in the NFL as a player.<\/p>\n

Per Jenna Laine of ESPN, the Bucs re-signed Nacho<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the 2020 season, Nacho played a critical role for the Bucs. When Vita Vea broke his ankle in Week 5 at Chicago on a Thursday night game, Nacho stepped in as the starter and held the fort down until Vea could return, which he did for the NFC Championship game in Green Bay.<\/p>\n

Joe has to figure Nacho is no longer the player he used to be. At worst, he will be a valuable depth piece who already knows Todd Bowles\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n

If Joe didn\u2019t know any better, with the signings of A\u2019Shawn Robinson and Nacho, it\u2019s like the Bucs are preparing for Calijah Kancey to get hurt again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Return Of \u201cNacho\u201d April 3rd, 2026 He\u2019s ba\u2019ack. Former Bucs defensive tackle Rakeem Nunez-Roches, known affectionately by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852493,"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-852492","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\/116344160817818052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852492","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=852492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}