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Jenna Laine, ESPN staff editor
TAMPA, Fla. – The Buccaneers placed cornerback Jamel Dean on injury hold with trauma to his right hamstring before Monday night’s game against the Baltimore Ravens.
The Bucs also placed rookie wide receiver Kameron Johnson on injured reserve with ankle trauma, meaning both players will be unavailable for at least four weeks, per NFL regulations.
The staff activated defensive lineman Earnest Brown IV due to injury and punter Trenton Gill from the enforcement team.
Dean, the Bucs’ most talented outside cornerback with 57 regular-season starts, suffered the trauma in the Game 6 win over the future Untouched Orleans Saints, prompting a tackle by wide receiver Bub Way, with his right leg bending. clumsily beneath him. He didn’t move again.
The Bucs are already without additional cornerback Bryce Hall, whose season ended and then suffered a broken fibula and dislocated ankle on Game Day 1. The team is expected to turn to rookie cornerback Tyrek Funderburk, who saw his first defense in the NFL. Closing time action on the Saints and Josh Hayes, one of the artists of the management group.
This is Gill’s 1/3 straight lift, and a decision looms on whether the Bucs will make the most of him or third-year punter Jake Camarda, who struggled earlier this season averaging 45.3 during the first 4 video games. Camarda ranked fifth in the NFL at the end of the year with a 50.1 average.
