TAMPA, Fla. -- After what seemed like an eternity, right guard J.R. Sweezy finally got to make his debut with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday against the Chicago Bears. Nobody was happier about that than Sweezy himself, who missed all of last season with a lower back injury.
Coming off the field and into the locker room, his menacing stare was replaced by a huge smile. He could barely contain his excitement. It had been exactly 20 months since he'd last played a football game.
"I forgot how fun it was, honestly," said Sweezy, whose last game was with the Seattle Seahawks, when they lost the NFC divisional game to the Carolina Panthers following the 2015 season.