For the better part of last season, when then-rookie running back Bucky Irving suited up for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his former college teammate at Oregon, wideout Tez Johnson, would text him and express how much he wanted to join him in Tampa.

When the time came around, the Bucs and general manager Jason Licht selected Johnson in the seventh round with the 235th overall pick of the 2025 NFL Draft.

"Tez used to always say when he would be watching my games or anything like that, he would say, 'Bro, I want to come down with you to Tampa,'" Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving said on the "Up and Adams Show."

"He used to say it every time we got on the phone, and I always told him, 'Just put your head down and work and God is going to take care of everything.' Then, it happened so I gue

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