{"id":39955,"date":"2025-04-27T14:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/bucs-sign-464lb-unicorn-desmond-watson-as-undrafted-free-agent\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T14:33:04","slug":"bucs-sign-464lb-unicorn-desmond-watson-as-undrafted-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/bucs-sign-464lb-unicorn-desmond-watson-as-undrafted-free-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs sign 464lb \u2018unicorn\u2019 Desmond Watson as undrafted free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Florida tackle impressed teams with size and strength<\/li>\n<li>Watson would have been heaviest-ever draft pick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Florida defensive tackle Desmond Watson, a 6ft 6in, 464lb prospect, is signing with his hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Watson, who grew up in Plant City about 20 miles east of Tampa, announced the move on social media. He had been hoping to get selected in the later rounds of the draft on Saturday, where he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/11\/desmond-watson-florida-nfl-draft\">have become the heaviest pick in NFL history<\/a>. But no team gambled on the run-stopper.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/27\/desmond-watson-tampa-bay-florida-nfl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida tackle impressed teams with size and strength Watson would have been heaviest-ever draft pick Former Florida defensive tackle Desmond Watson, a 6ft 6in, 464lb prospect, is signing with his hometown Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent. Watson, who grew up in Plant City about 20 miles east of Tampa, announced the move &#8230; <a title=\"Bucs sign 464lb \u2018unicorn\u2019 Desmond Watson as undrafted free agent\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/bucs-sign-464lb-unicorn-desmond-watson-as-undrafted-free-agent\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bucs sign 464lb \u2018unicorn\u2019 Desmond Watson as undrafted free agent\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}