Teddy Bridgewater expected to sign with Buccaneers after announcing plans for NFL comeback

by: Nick Geddes 28 minutes ago NickGeddesNews

Teddy Bridgewater , who stepped down as head football coach at  Miami Northwestern  to pursue a return to the NFL , is visiting with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Tuesday. He is expected to sign with the team, per Adam Schefter of ESPN.

This will be Bridgewater’s eighth stop in the NFL, and third time playing for an NFC South team after previous stints with the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers. The 32-year-old will join a quarterback room which consists of Baker Mayfield , Kyle Trask , Michael Pratt and Connor Bazelak . Mayfield missed a pair of practices last week with a hand contusion, while Pratt is currently sidelined with a lower back injury.

Head coach Todd Bowles said last Friday of the possibility of bringing in another quarterback to training camp: “Yeah, we’re looking at that.”

We’ll see if Bridgewater ultimately provides competition to Trask for the backup job. Bridgewater does have a wealth of experience, appearing in 79 games (65 starts) over the course of his career. Trask, meanwhile, has thrown just 11 passes in the regular season since entering the league in 2021.

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