{"id":862108,"date":"2026-04-09T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:06:36","slug":"jason-licht-names-5-young-bucs-he-expects-to-improve-significantly-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862108\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Licht Names 5 Young Bucs He Expects To Improve Significantly – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tJason Licht Names 5 Young Bucs He Expects To Improve Significantly
\nApril 8th, 2026 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Buccaneers Ring of Honor Jason Licht has put the NFL on notice.<\/p>\n

Licht always seems high on all his players. Heck, if he\u2019s not, then who would be? But Licht always has favorites he can\u2019t wait to see on the field.<\/p>\n

During a sitdown last week with Kevin Clark of BSPN, Licht was asked to name a Buccaneer \u201cwho would make a leap in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Licht squirmed and said he couldn\u2019t name just one because \u201cthere are a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Licht spit out five: receivers Emeka Egbuka and Jalen McMillan, running back Bucky Irving, edge rusher YaYa Diaby and safety Tykee Smith. Maybe Licht would have named more but he was interrupted by Clark.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of good young players I feel like that have a lot to prove and will prove a lot of people wrong,\u201d Licht said.<\/p>\n

Licht didn\u2019t offer many specifics but said he\u2019s confident Egbuka will build on his strong rookie year, and he called McMillan \u201ca young rising star\u201d and said Irving \u201cis ready to shine again and show what he is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Licht Names 5 Young Bucs He Expects To Improve Significantly April 8th, 2026 Buccaneers Ring of Honor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2599,2598,7,6,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-862108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116373251522389079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862108","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=862108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}