It’s late on a Sunday and Joe is still drooling over the excitement of a seemingly endless sea of football games this weekend.
Joe is crazy excited for this Bucs season but would be more fired up if one certain Buccaneer was preparing to play early in the season. His name is Chris Godwin, the ninth-year player who is the second best Bucs receiver of all-time with 579 catches for 7,266 yards.
The Bucs have been tight-lipped about Godwin’s recovery for months after multiple ankle surgeries.
In March, Godwin himself told hosts Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller of SiriusXM NFL Radio [that they would see him](https://www.joebucsfan.com/2025/03/chris-godwin-talks-about-practicing-in-2025-training-camp/) “drenched in sweat, as always” on the field when the duo comes to Bucs training camp for an annual show. That show was Thursday, and Godwin has yet to practice.
Joe has been uneasy about the Godwin silence but was learning to live peacefully with it. And then Joe saw Godwin mic’d up last night at the Bucs-Titans preseason game.
The legendary JoeBucsFan.com photographer caught several photos of Godwin sporting a microphone. (One photo above)
Why would the Bucs mic up an injured player long before he was prepared to play — in a preseason game?
That sure seemed like a clue that Godwin is coming along well in his recovery and could be close to his return. It seems hard to believe Godwin would be mic’d up just for possibly a few nuggets of him propping up young receivers.
Perhaps Joe is way off base, but this is where the Bucs and Godwin have driven Joe — aching for any clue that Godwin is close to practicing and playing.
Joe is curious what other Bucs fans think.
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