{"id":18542,"date":"2025-07-25T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/watson-the-heaviest-player-in-the-nfl-seeks-health-and-debut-with-the-bucs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:03:31","slug":"watson-the-heaviest-player-in-the-nfl-seeks-health-and-debut-with-the-bucs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/watson-the-heaviest-player-in-the-nfl-seeks-health-and-debut-with-the-bucs\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson, the heaviest player in the NFL, seeks health and debut with the Bucs"},"content":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Desmond Watson&#8217;s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will begin with a delay.\n\nBuccaneers coach Todd Bowles reported that the most corpulent player in NFL history is day-to-day, after starting camp on the non-football injury list due to his weight.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s simply about improving his condition, making him a healthier player and allowing him to be on the field longer.<\/p><cite>Todd Bowles<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBowles added on Wednesday that they are working with Watson, and that&#8217;s all they can ask for at the moment.\n\nWatson, who played in Florida, was signed after not being selected in the April draft. On the university&#8217;s pro day, he weighed 464 pounds and lost between 25 and 30 pounds before the draft.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t have a timeline to know how much weight he can lose or when it will happen.<\/p><cite>Todd Bowles<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe 6-foot-6-inch defensive tackle has been working with a team nutritionist, and the team has not specified what his ideal playing weight would be.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; Desmond Watson&#8217;s quest to make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will begin with a delay. Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles reported that the most corpulent player in NFL history is day-to-day, after starting camp on the non-football injury list due to his weight. It&#8217;s simply about improving his condition, making him a healthier player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[6318,64,1778,3899],"class_list":{"0":"post-18542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-desmond-watson","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-tampa-bay","11":"tag-weight"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}