The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have to start their season against the Chicago Bears without defensive end Jacquies Smith, despite not listing him on the injury report this week. Apparently he’s not fit enough or acclimated enough to play yet, as he’s barely rehabbed from an ACL injury that kept him out of action for over a year.
The Buccaneers are almost entirely healthy, though, and the only injury-related inactive on the list is linebacker Devante Bond, who has been out since the middle of preseason. Bond’s absence means Kendell Beckwith got the starting strongside linebacker position more or less without having to win a competition.