Knee injury? What knee injury?
When asked Wednesday, Buccaneers defensive tackle Vita Vea looked as if he had never heard of such a thing — a knee, an injury or any kind of combination of the two.
“Nah,” Vea said. “There’s nothing wrong with me. I’m fine. I’m totally 100 percent.”
Coach Dirk Koetter said earlier this week that the first-round draft pick hurt his knee on the team’s first defensive play of the fourth quarter Sunday against the Bengals and that the team was concerned enough that it performed an MRI exam.
On the play, a Joe Mixon run to the right, Vea fell to a knee while he was trying to shed a block.