{"id":96242,"date":"2025-06-01T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96242\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T18:16:14","slug":"looking-forward-to-making-the-most-of-my-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/96242\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Looking forward to making the most of my opportunities’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buccaneers’ veteran leadership in the WR room was also a source of knowledge that could inspire confidence in McMillan. Mike Evans<\/a> and Godwin, the team’s top two wideouts before Godwin’s injury, have 19 combined NFL seasons between them, 15 of which have gone for 1,000-plus receiving yards. When Godwin went out, McMillan could lean on their collective experience, and he made the most of his opportunities as an every-down receiver for quarterback Baker Mayfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, heading into his second campaign with a full, true offseason to prepare, McMillan has an idea of what part of his game he would like to improve on.<\/p>\n

“Just be where my feet are, [have] intent with all my actions,” McMillan said. “Definitely [to] get stronger, get faster, get smarter, just keep my circle tight. I think I was on a great run last year so just continuing that and not falling off.”<\/p>\n

McMillan has used organized team activities to work on his craft. The Buccaneers have also used the offseason to strengthen their WR corps. Tampa Bay re-signed<\/a> Godwin, brought back veteran Sterling Shepard<\/a> and used its first-round pick on Emeka Egbuka<\/a> out of Ohio State. They also took a flyer on Oregon’s Tez Johnson<\/a> in Round 7.<\/p>\n

With Evans and a healthy Godwin sitting atop the depth chart, the WR3 role has competition in offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard’s first year. Despite the return of Shepard and two rookies being selected in April’s draft, McMillan is focused on what he can control, which is to continue taking advantage of his chances this summer and throughout the regular season.<\/p>\n

“I’m just looking forward to making the most of my opportunities,” he said. “I’m not really worried about any three, four, five, six spots. I’m just worried about when the ball comes my way — make the play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers’ veteran leadership in the WR room was also a source of knowledge that could inspire confidence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[1227,211,7,4080,88,6,609,4267,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-96242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jalen-mcmillan","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-offseason-news","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114609480393284295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96242","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=96242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}