{"id":907604,"date":"2026-06-02T02:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/907604\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:57:21","slug":"nfc-notes-rueben-bain-alvin-kamara-buccaneers-panthers-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/907604\/","title":{"rendered":"NFC Notes: Rueben Bain, Alvin Kamara, Buccaneers, Panthers, Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers OLB coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/F\/FootLa20.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-31_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Larry Foote<\/a> compared first-round LB Rueben Bain Jr. to former Steelers teammate and LB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HarrJa23.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-31_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Harrison<\/a>, who won the league\u2019s Defensive Player of the Year award back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in my Pittsburgh days, I played with a guy named James Harrison like that,\u201d said Foote, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48881842\/tampa-bay-buccaneers-meaner-violent-defense-turnaround-ruben-bain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>. \u201cIt was just \u2014 you couldn\u2019t block him. [Bain] has that trait, he has that ability. He plays with that attitude and mindset that you look for \u2014 he\u2019s mean, he\u2019s nasty, and he\u2019s been doing it for a long time\u2026Bigger and faster \u2014 you can collapse the pocket versus the pass. It brings a lot. You always want to go with the bigger fighters. And if you can get that, that\u2019s what you\u2019re going to choose \u2014 10 out of 10 [times].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panthers HC Dave Canales\u00a0said that LB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WallTr00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trevin Wallace<\/a> (shoulder) still hasn\u2019t been cleared for contact, via<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/josephperson\/status\/2059342594870563281\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Joseph Person.\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nPanthers DT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/J\/JackCa01.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-27_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cam Jackson<\/a> said UDFA DE Aaron Hall has been a rookie who has stood out to him so far in their offseason program: \u201cI\u2019d say Aaron Hall, for sure. I did not know he was that twitchy.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mike_e_kaye\/status\/2059420697043075144\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mike Kaye<\/a>)<br \/>\nJackson added that Hall is proving to get off the ball quickly and has a high motor: \u201cJust how he gets off the ball, for real. He\u2019s a smart player, still learning, but just his motor \u2014 he\u2019s got a high motor, for sure.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mike_e_kaye\/status\/2059420697043075144\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kaye<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the latest NFL Insider News &amp; Rumors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure to follow <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfltraderumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers OLB coach Larry Foote compared first-round LB Rueben Bain Jr. to former Steelers teammate and LB James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[103317,2825,211,2918,3838,7,2710,7166,16471,6,71731,704,250,2597,2596,10627],"class_list":["post-907604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-aaron-hall","tag-alvin-kamara","tag-buccaneers","tag-cam-jackson","tag-dave-canales","tag-football","tag-james-harrison","tag-kellen-moore","tag-larry-foote","tag-nfl","tag-rueben-bain","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers","tag-trevin-wallace"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116678272182972324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907604","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=907604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}