Rookie safety Tykee Smith will return to action after missing one game due to a concussion as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night, and his veteran teammate, Antoine Winfield Jr., will avoid missing time due to a foot injury.
While the Buccaneers' secondary got some good news on Monday night, the team's receiving corps continues to get hit hard by injuries. Mike Evans will miss his second straight game due to a hamstring injury suffered in Week Seven against Baltimore, and Chris Godwin is already on injured reserve. Rookie wideout Jared McMillan is also inactive on Monday night after aggravating a hamstring injury at the end of the week of practice.
Rookie running back Bucky Irving and veteran wide receiver Sterling Shepard were also listed as questionable on Saturday's injury report, but both are active for Monday's game.
The Buccaneers and Chiefs submitted their list of inactives at 6:45 p.m. ET on Monday, 90 minutes before the scheduled kickoff of their Week Nine game at Arrowhead Stadium. After elevating wide receiver Marquez Callaway and linebacker Vi Jones from the practice squad earlier in the afternoon, the Buccaneers had 55 available players and thus had to name seven inactives to get down to the game-day limit of 48.
BUCCANEERS INACTIVES
- TE Devin Culp
- WR Mike Evans
- DL Greg Gaines
- LB Antonio Grier
- WR Jalen McMillan
- G Royce Newman
- OLB Jose Ramirez
Evans, Gaines and McMillan are out due to injury.
CHIEFS INACTIVES
- DE Michael Danna
- T Ethan Driskell
- OL C.J. Hanson
- RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire
- S Nazeeh Johnson
- WR JuJu Smith-Schuster
- DT Marlon Tuipulotu
Danna, Johnson and Smith-Schuster are out due to injury.
