{"id":209872,"date":"2025-09-08T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209872\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:37:10","slug":"emeka-egbuka-accomplishes-rare-feat-in-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209872\/","title":{"rendered":"Emeka Egbuka accomplishes rare feat in debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers receiver Emeka Ebuka had a debut to remember on Sunday in Tampa\u2019s 23-20 win over the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 first-rounder caught four passes for 67 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The second touchdown was the game winner, with 59 seconds to play. Per the NFL, that makes Egbuka only the second player since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to score a game-winning touchdown catch in the last minute of regulation or overtime in his first career game.<\/p>\n<p>The only other player to do that was former Jaguars receiver Ernest Wilford, who caught a seven-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Byron Leftwich with no time left for a 13-10 win over the Bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers receiver Emeka Ebuka had a debut to remember on Sunday in Tampa\u2019s 23-20 win over the Falcons.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-209872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115168008312821996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209872","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=209872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}