August 1, 2025
‘It is nearly making an attempt to get him higher, to be a more healthy participant and getting him on the sphere a bit extra,’ head coach Todd Bowles mentioned.
Desmond Watson, an undrafted NFL participant who signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in April, weighed 464 kilos earlier this 12 months, and regardless that he has misplaced a few kilos since then, the crew has positioned him on the non-football harm checklist due to his weight.
In keeping with The Related Press, the 6-foot-6 rookie defensive sort out is the heaviest participant within the NFL, and the crew is working with him to carry his weight all the way down to a snug enjoying stage. He went to the College of Florida for his collegiate profession, and Tampa Bay’s head coach, Todd Bowles, desires to offer him extra time to get more healthy so he can get on the sphere for the Buccaneers.
“It’s nearly making an attempt to get him higher, to be a more healthy participant and getting him on the sphere a bit extra,” Bowles mentioned. “That’s sort of the place I’m at proper now. He’s working at it, and we’re working with him, and that’s all you possibly can ask proper now.”
Watson has been specializing in his weight reduction and is at present working with a crew nutritionist; nonetheless, there isn’t any affirmation as to what the crew’s goal weight is for him to contemplate, which might enable him to play for the franchise.
“I don’t have a timetable on what we will get him all the way down to or when that comes,” Bowles mentioned. “He’s from Armwood, he went to Florida, so he’s used to the warmth. That’s not an enormous consider it. We’ve simply acquired to see what occurs.”
It was lately reported that the Bucs have instructed the defensive participant that he has to run 10 laps, even within the brutal warmth of Tampa Bay.
The crew appears to believe in his enjoying talents, but in addition desires to observe his well being.
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