A backup running back on last year’s worst rushing team in the NFL may have carried his last football for the Bucs.
Chase Edmonds did not make the 53-man roster for this afternoon’s 4 p.m. cutdown deadline. He has missed virtually all of training camp and preseason with an undisclosed injury.
Teams are not obligated to disclose injury information until the week of Game 1 of the regular season (next week).
Ben Levine of Pro Football Rumors points out if a player is kept on the initial 53-man roster and is then placed on injured reserve, he could be brought back after four games.
Instead, the Bucs placed Edmonds on injured reserve before allowing him to stay on the 53-man roster by today’s 4 p.m. deadline, thus effectively ending his season, per Greg Auman of FOX Sports.
Edmonds is in the final year of a two-year contract with the Bucs.
The only way the Bucs could retain Edmonds for this season is if the Bucs buy him out of his contract with an injury settlement and then the team could bring him back.
But what would Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen do with him? Edmonds has barely worked with Coen on the field. He didn’t have one padded practice this summer before getting injured.
So Joe has a hunch that Edmonds’ days with the Bucs are done.
According to multiple reports, the @Buccaneers got their homework done a day early.
Here is what you need to know about the 53-man roster and the upcoming pursuit of practice squad members.#WeAreTheKrewe | #GoBucs | @10TampaBay pic.twitter.com/drad0gNZAN— Evan Closky (@ECloskyWTSP) August 27, 2024
