Thumb update next week.
Remember when KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles, the immediate days after Baker Mayfield suffered a dislocated thumb on his throwing hand, Bowles was clear Mayfield was out a minimum of three weeks.
Bowles didn’t say three games.
So it seems, maybe, Mayfield could play a week from tomorrow when the Bucs host the Steelers it what should be an invasion of Steelers fans.
Yesterday in his day-after presser in the wake of the Bucs’ win in Dallas on Thursday night, Bowles was asked about Mayfield’s status.
> “He has a smaller grip (splint) on it,” Bowles said. “I will know more when he comes in (next week).
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> “Right now we plan on starting Jalon against the Steelers.”
Bowles sure left the door open for Mayfield to come racing out of the [black curtain](https://www.joebucsfan.com/2026/09/curtaingate/).
So should Bowles go with the hot hand, as he always references, or will the $165 million dollar man get his start back?