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Steal or fluke?
The Bucs’ signing Detroit edge rusher Al-Quadin Muhammad is a curious puzzle for Joe that keeps him up at night.
Oh, it’s fantastic the Bucs found a double-digit sack guy. Who could be mad with that?
Then again, last year in a contract year, he damn near doubled his previous career-best season sack total, ending 2025 with 11 sacks.
Additionally, Muhammad, 30, did this without starting one game. Joe just cannot figure out how any team with a guy with double-digit sacks couldn’t find a way to get him in the starting lineup.
Was Muhammad hitting on the wrong person’s daughter?
Joe has been doing some digging and from what Joe can tell, a reason Muhammad couldn’t break into the starting lineup was maybe he wasn’t good against the run.
Well then, someone tell Joe how a guy who can’t defend the run had nine tackles for loss last season — without starting one game.
Consider, Bucs edge rusher YaYa Diaby had 13 tackles for loss in 783 defensive snaps last season. Muhammad had 9 tackles for loss in 326 fewer snaps (457) than Diaby had.
Yet Muhammad couldn’t start a game?
Muhammad’s tackles for loss total was good enough to tie for 12th-most in the NFL last season. Yet he couldn’t start a game?
Either Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht got an absolute steal or Muhammad’s 2025 season was a complete fluke.