{"id":178048,"date":"2025-08-26T21:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178048\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:40:10","slug":"desmond-watson-the-heaviest-player-in-nfl-history-was-released-by-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178048\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Watson, the heaviest player in NFL history, was released by Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The heaviest<\/a> player in NFL history may not get a chance to play in the league.<\/p>\n

Desmond Watson was among the players released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Watson, who played at Florida, was signed<\/a> after going undrafted in April. He weighed 464 pounds at the school\u2019s pro day and lost 25 to 30 pounds before the draft but didn\u2019t get a chance to practice with the team because he didn\u2019t lose enough weight. He spent training camp on the non-football injury<\/a> list.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still working. Job\u2019s not finished,\u201d agent EJ Gonzalez told the AP.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-6 defensive tackle had been working with a team nutritionist and the team didn\u2019t say what would be an ideal playing weight for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe door is not closed on him, but if you don\u2019t practice, you\u2019re probably not going to make this team,\u201d Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see where we are in a couple weeks and we\u2019ll circle back and we\u2019ll go from there. We\u2019re in the last week of camp. If you\u2019re not practicing, you\u2019re not going to play. He\u2019s been working hard, we had a good talk, and we\u2019ll circle back and see where he\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The heaviest player in NFL history may not get a chance to play in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100847,6064,723,9338,1232,9341,62,3528,97553,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-178048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-desmond-watson","9":"tag-fl-state-wire","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-national-football-league","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-football","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","16":"tag-todd-bowles","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097241114491521","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}