• Buccaneers OT Tristan Wirfs has been dealing with a knee injury and could miss Week 1. Tampa Bay HC Todd Bowles said Wirfs won’t be placed on an injured list and will still open the season on the active roster, via Greg Auman. • Buccaneers’ seventh-round WR Tez Johnson said he’s up to 160 pounds and is feeling good physically entering his rookie season, per Auman.

Panthers WR Xavier Legette is entering the second year of his career after being a first-round pick in 2024. Legette reflected on some costly drops he committed last season against the Eagles, Chiefs, and Bengals, saying he tries to avoid letting bad plays get into his head.

“Those were the main ones, the bad ones,” Legette said, via David Newton of ESPN. “It affected me in a way; how it made me feel. Just how we lost those

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