Calijah Kancey’s Regular Season Begins Today

For defensive tackle Calijah Kancey, the regular season sort of starts today against the 49ers.

The Bucs’ first-round pick in 2023 has been playing solid ball, getting better by the week. That’s basically because Kancey just finished his preseason and training camp.

Kancey got hurt in training camp (again) and injured a calf (again). This put him on the shelf for a chunk of training camp, all of the worthless preseason and the first five games of the regular season.

So basically, Kancey is now ready to roll.

“I definitely feel good now that I’ve had my fourth game played,” Kancey told Joe. “It’s football now.”

Kancey admitted in his first game back facing the slimy Saints, he was on a pitch count. The next three games he was not. Now he feels his training camp and preseason are over.

Kancey admitted the Bucs’ strong offensive line has helped him get back to 100 percent and prep him for games. So much so that Kancey admits if something works in practice for him, he believes it will also work in a game.

“Big difference when you go against those guys in practice,” Kancey said. [Difficult moves] “becomes natural. Everyone else you go against, it kind of makes it easy.”

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