Will Gholston Will Return
July 24th, 2023
He’s back!
Joe always likes to see good things happen to good people. And there are few better dudes in the NFL than Will Gholston.
And he will return to the Bucs for his 11th season.
Greg Auman of FOX Sports reports Gholston and the Bucs have agreed to terms and Joe is going to guess he will report to training camp like all veterans later today.
Drafted in the fourth round of the 2013 draft, Gholston has been damn good value for 11 seasons.
Gholston has never played with another team. Like Lavonte David and Mike Evans, Gholston played through some lean years on awful Bucs teams before finally getting a ring in 2020.
Sometime, somewhere, those three should have a plaque or something at One Buc Palace. You know, like three veterans who survived the NFL’s version of Iwo Jima or Omaha Beach. Three class acts that have lasted a long time to become champions.
Coincidence? Good guys lasting more than a decade in the NFL? Joe doesn’t believe in coincidences.
If anyone chooses to read up on Gholston’s long journey to the NFL — and you should — he got to the league the hard way growing up in Detroit. Since, Gholston has adopted Tampa as his hometown and Joe knows he wanted to continue his career with the Bucs.
So if Bucs fans are looking for a feel-good story to begin Training Camp 2023, it’s right here.
Gholston’s return just makes the Bucs interior defense all the more stronger and very deep. This, Joe believes, will make Calijah Kancey’s transition to the NFL smoother. Less weight on Kancey’s shoulders to get on the field right away.
Joe remembers during Ndamukong Suh’s first practice with the Bucs in 2019, Joe noticed how Suh took Gholston aside and you could see Suh’s mannerisms and how he was coaching up Gholston.
Joe hopes to see Gholston doing the same for Kancey this summer. Joe has a hunch that will happen from time to time. Gholston is that kinda dude.
July 24th, 2023 at 9:52 pm
good player. solid buc !
July 24th, 2023 at 10:01 pm
Excellent news! Welcome back Will! I feel a lot better about the D line now.
July 24th, 2023 at 10:09 pm
VERY GOOD CHOICE
July 24th, 2023 at 10:10 pm
Glad to have Big Will back, quality depth and can help Hall and Kancey learn the profession. Let’s not compare football to WW2 tho… kind of a lame analogy, show some respect to the Greatest Generation.
July 24th, 2023 at 10:12 pm
speaking of Suh- they should bring him back too
July 24th, 2023 at 10:13 pm
Great news!! We are looking better and better!!…..I’m telling you, just Go Bucs!!
I have a good feeling about this season. Never mind the naysayers. The season is decided on the field!!
July 24th, 2023 at 10:21 pm
Wow! So glad he is back. He belongs with us and has always done well!
July 24th, 2023 at 10:21 pm
Great News. Now bring back Carl Nassib!
July 24th, 2023 at 10:23 pm
Solid move.
Welcome back Will.
July 24th, 2023 at 10:24 pm
he is one of our top pass rushers, right behind JTS, this is good news…..
July 24th, 2023 at 10:39 pm
Will is solid…..great addition….
July 24th, 2023 at 10:45 pm
Lots of good news today. Shaq not put on PUP and Sean Tucker cleared to play just in time for training camp.
Stanglassman Says:
July 21st, 2023 at 2:30 am
I can’t wait until Sean Tucker gets cleared to play so we can stop hearing about how they didn’t draft a running back in the draft. Maybe they like most teams had a 2-3rd round grade on Tucker and thought the chances were good his heart condition would clear up. The last I heard he was expected to be cleared to practice by camp.
July 24th, 2023 at 10:56 pm
@Stanglassman
Holding Tucker out of camp was probably precautionary. No way you give out the 3rd biggest guaranteed UDFA contract in the league w/o some idea of the players’ status. The 2nd half of every preseason game should be all Brown & Tucker out of the backfield.
July 24th, 2023 at 11:03 pm
Excellent, thank you Will for coming back home!
July 24th, 2023 at 11:14 pm
Yayyyyyyyyy!! Will’s back and so is our run defense!!
July 25th, 2023 at 12:18 am
Good signing for Logan Hall. LH needs to learn how to be WG. Then, level up.
July 25th, 2023 at 12:37 am
Glad to have Gholston back, and the Bucs line has some decent depth for once.
July 25th, 2023 at 2:48 am
Awesome!! Big Will is back!!!!
July 25th, 2023 at 3:28 am
Excellent for all the reasons you state.
July 25th, 2023 at 3:55 am
Great signing Jason!
Good on you Will!
Go Bucs!
July 25th, 2023 at 5:13 am
What are they paying him?
July 25th, 2023 at 5:37 am
Awesome re-signing! Good to see that JL obviously listens to JBFers who’ve been near unanimous in support of Big Will. Ya we’ll go with that.
July 25th, 2023 at 6:22 am
@ Toad Bowles… agreed, would love to see Nassib back in the rotation, I’ve always like his game, underrated high motor guy… but is there any more room?
July 25th, 2023 at 7:23 am
@DR
We signed Gholston to a deal Worth $2.66M, but because of some weird legacy sounding loophole with Gholston being a player returning to the team after his contract expiring it only counts $1.317M against the cap, Licht & Greenberg strike again cause that’s value for a player that’s been eith the team since 2013
July 25th, 2023 at 7:59 am
Schiano Man
July 25th, 2023 at 8:05 am
Solid dependable player who gives the Bucs important depth if a starter goes down.
July 25th, 2023 at 9:40 am
Thrilled!
July 25th, 2023 at 9:41 am
Fantastic player, neighbor and friend of Tampa. Very glad to see him suit up again in a Buc uniform. Let’s cause some havoc.
July 25th, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Good for big Will
July 25th, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Awesome!
July 25th, 2023 at 4:56 pm
Yay!!!
July 25th, 2023 at 5:21 pm
So stoked. Great news.