With the preseason over for the Buccaneers (and everyone else) Javorius Allen Jersey , the three-game suspension for quarterback Jameis Winston officially has begun. And when he officially returns, he officially has no guarantee that he’ll start the team’s Week Four game at Chicago.
Via JoeBucsFan.com, G.M. Jason Licht declined to declare during the TV broadcast of the preseason finale that Winston immediately will be re-installed as the starting quarterback when he returns on the Tuesday morning after the team’s Week Three Monday night game against the Steelers.
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The fact that the Bucs have a short week when Winston returns from more than three weeks away from the team will make it harder for him to be immediately ready to go. The fact that the Bucs play on Monday night at home and then Sunday on the road will make it even harder. Which could make the Bucs inclined to ride out their last game before a Week Five bye without Winston, ultimately giving him nearly three weeks to get ready for a Week Six showdown against the Falcons.
The Philadelphia 76ers have traded Mikal Bridges to the Phoenix Suns for Zhaire Smith in a swap of first-round draft pick.
Bridges was picked 10th overall and the Villanova standout answered questions at Barclays Center about his move down the road before he was swapped to the Suns. The Suns had picked Smith, a forward from Texas Tech, with the 16th overall pick. The Sixers also acquired an unprotected 2021 first-round pick in the trade.
Bridges had a short-lived happy homecoming. The Villanova Wildcats national championship forward played all their home games last season in the same arena as the Sixers and his mother works in human resources for the franchise’s parent company.
Smith Phil Simms Jersey , a 6-foot-4, 198-pound guard, averaged 11.3 points for the Red Raiders and worked out twice for the 76ers.