Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving brought new life to a very dead rushing attack last season.
In 2024, alongside then-new offensive coordinator, Liam Coen, Irving helped improve a Bucs running game from one of the worst in the league to a top-five unit.
The three-headed monster of Rachaad White, Irving and Sean Tucker led a massively improved rushing game that helped the team to a record-tying fourth straight NFC South division title.
Irving began the season splitting time with White, but quickly took over the majority of the carries. But he's not content with that effort and is ready to improve next season.
“I feel like once you always start something new, it’s going to have to slow down for you a little bit,” Irving told PewterReport.com. “When I first got thrown in, the game was moving pretty fast for me but yeah, as I just settled down and let the game – and just think about it like, ‘it’s just football.’ And not think about too many other things that are going on out there. But yeah, just always going back and looking at the film and looking at things that you can get better at and improve in and also not getting satisfied and stuck in last year, because it’s a new year. Nobody cares about what you did last year.
"It’s, ‘What can you do for me now?’ But I’ve always been that guy that pretty much never gets stuck in the past ... and work hard every day.”