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The Bay Bay Buyrs placed the non -recruited defensive Tackle Desmond Watson in the list of injuries that are not football due to their weight.
Watson, 22, had 6 feet 6 inches, 464 pounds when the BURs signed it after the NFL 2025 Draft. It has been reduced to about 450 pounds, but it has not lost enough weight to be clear for the training camp.
“It’s about trying to do better, be a healthier player and take it a little more to the field,” said Chief coach Todd Bowles to journalists on Wednesday.
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The defensive Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa, Desmond Watson, observes from the bank during the practice on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 in Tampa, Fla. (Ap Photo/Chris O’Meara)
“There is a bit where I am now. He is working on that and we are working with him. And that’s all you can ask right now.”
Watson has the ability to be a quality filling in the NFL. In four seasons with the Florida Gators, Watson had 63 cup and 1½ catches.
Justin Fields of Jets took during the practice of the training field after suffering apparent injuries
The defensive Tampa Bay Bucaneers Tampa, Desmond Watson, participates in Minicamp at the Adventhealth Training Center on July 10, 2025, in Tampa Bay, Fla. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn images)
“We have some things that we have in mind where we want to see it, and we will continue monitoring that and take it to where we believe it needs to be and go from there,” Bowles said.
During his time in Florida, Watson said to stop to get food while driving was one of the reasons why he had a lot of weight.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers’s defensive Tampa, Desmond Watson, works at One Bur Pace on June 11, 2025 in Tampa Bay, Fla. (Kim Klement Neitzel/Imagn images)
“Stop while driving,” Watson said when asked about the bad habits he tried to throw in his professional day. “The most important thing is to move on, get where I need to get. There are stores and many temptations. That has helped me immensely. Do not enter the service station. Pay in the pump. Because inside the snacks and all kinds of things like that. Do not stop. If you are on the road, stay on the road until it reaches where it will reach.”
If Watson made the list of 53 men and appeared in a game, it would make the story of the NFL as the heaviest player to play in the history of the League.
