After the Buccaneers selected Ohio State receiver Emeka Egbuka with the 19th pick in the 2025 draft, some assumed that the Bucs were concerned about veteran receiver Chris Godwin’s availability for the start of the season.

If the team has such concerns, those concerns didn’t make their way into the three-year, $66 million contract Godwin signed with the Buccaneers in March.

PFT has obtained and reviewed the contract. There’s no language regarding the injury. Nothing that, for example, conditions any of the $20.745 million 2025 roster bonus on passing a physical. (The second and final installment is due in six days.) Nothing that creates an exception for any aggravation of the injury or related condition.

Maybe the Bucs had no choice, given that Godwin had a better financial offer on

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