The Rise Of Tez Johnson
November 12th, 2025
Blossoming.
One of the few good things to come out of the loss to New England is the continued development of wide receiver Tez Johnson.
The seventh-round pick this past spring for the Bucs is showing he’s no ordinary dice roll for the bottom of the draft.
Johnson averages 13.4 yards a catch, second to Emeka Egbuka (for receivers with more than four catches). He’s also second on the Bucs in touchdown catches with four, with two Sunday against New England. Egbuka has six.
So why is Johnson developing so well? After the game on Sunday, Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield said Johnson is going about practices the right way.
“He just continues to do what we ask of him, to be honest with you,” Mayfield said. “He is doing the little things right.
“He is coming alive, and his natural talent is showing in the scramble drill situations where he is never stopping until he finds my eyes trying to get open the whole time. He is doing a really good job of that.”
Can Johnson get even better? Who knows, he’s still a rookie learning how to play in the NFL.
Johnson just goes to show fans that you can throw away the stopwatches at the combine. Football has been, is, and always will be how you play on the football field, not how you do in indoor track practice in Indianapolis in the dead of February.
WR – Tez Johnson
The Bucs will be without Chris Godwin again in Week 11, making Johnson a fringe streamer.
He scored twice last week against the Patriots.pic.twitter.com/y5sj7bi5zx
— RotoWire (@RotoWire) November 11, 2025