Bucs’ Desmond Watson, Nfl’s Heaviest Player, Placed On Non-football Injury List Due To Weight

Desmond Watson’s quest to make nan Tampa Bay Buccaneers will get a precocious start.

Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles said nan heaviest subordinate successful NFL history is time to time aft starting campy connected non-football wounded database owed to his weight.

“It’s conscionable astir trying to get him better, to beryllium a healthier subordinate and getting him connected nan section a small more,” Bowles said Wednesday. “That’s benignant of wherever I’m astatine correct now. He’s moving astatine it and we’re moving pinch him and that’s each you tin inquire correct now.”

Watson, who played astatine Florida, was signed aft going undrafted successful April. He weighed 464lb astatine nan school’s pro time and mislaid 25 to 30lb earlier nan draft.

“I don’t person a timetable connected what we tin get him down to aliases erstwhile that comes,” Bowles said. “He’s from Armwood, he went to Florida, truthful he’s utilized to nan heat. That’s not a large facet successful it. We’ve conscionable sewage to spot what happens.”

The 6ft 6in protect tackle has been moving pinch a squad nutritionist and nan squad hasn’t said what would beryllium an perfect playing weight for him.