Todd Bowles Updates Vita Vea Foot Injury
September 5th, 2025
Encouraging news at One Buc Palace — to a degree.
So Vita Vea practiced today after sitting out the past two days with a mysterious foot injury.
Asked about Vea after practice, head coach Todd Bowles fueled the foot mystery. Bowles described Vea’s situation as “something he woke up with.”
Damn, doesn’t that kind of thing happen after one turns 55?
Bowles said Vea “had a good practice” and his arrow is pointing up for Sunday. “He’s looking promising. He’s trending the right way,” Bowles said.
The Bucs will face a Falcons team Sunday that is a run-first unit with a strong offensive line and a top-5 running back, Bijan Robinson. Vea on the field certainly would be a huge bonus. Joe expects Vea to play. What his total snap count will be — and how a foot issue might affect him long term — is another story.
Joe would have slept easier tonight of Bowles said Vea was in great shape and his rest was just precautionary.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Checked the Depth Chart … Bucs are Super Thin (no pun intended) at NT. VV needs to stay healthy. I’m missing Nacho big time.
2026 Draft Needs (updated):
1. MLB
2. NT
3. Swing Tackle
4. WR
September 5th, 2025 at 1:07 pm
Should have traded his fat azz to Dallas.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:08 pm
Can it, Jeff. It’s football, guys get banged up or did you forget that?
September 5th, 2025 at 1:17 pm
Great news. If sore and he is able, let him play against Atlanta and sit out the Texans and Jets. Division wins much more important. Be back for NFC game against the Eagles that could have seeding implications.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:18 pm
Sounds like gout.
That’s one of the only for injuries one can ‘wake up with’.
And gout is quite debilitating if you’re not aware, so there’s no way he could play on it if it was/is gout.
Hopefully it’s passed.
Prob too much protein/meat and fat in Vita’s diet and it caught up with him.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:19 pm
*foot injuries
September 5th, 2025 at 1:21 pm
Bucs need to trade Vita along with Chris Godwin and next years 1st round pick for Jalen Carter
September 5th, 2025 at 1:24 pm
@slypirate #1 is olb/ de
September 5th, 2025 at 1:27 pm
Jack, Aqualung, and Jeff are all the same person/AI.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:28 pm
AKA he’ll be dealing with this all season long…
Not good.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:28 pm
That can start happening way before 55.
With what Vea puts his body through each season since before high school and the shear size of said body, this happening to him before 35 is not shocking. 😆
September 5th, 2025 at 1:28 pm
As long as he can play!
September 5th, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Was thinking it’s gout as well…. No bueno if it keeps flaring up. He’ll be compensating to not put weight on those toes if he plays..
September 5th, 2025 at 1:41 pm
No Wirfs
No Godwin
No McMilan
Hoping & Praying Reddick is like 2023 version and not 2024 version
Banking on Dennis, Winfield, Dean to be healthy and hoping Todd Blows changes his soft pass defense… SMH
Bucs are banking on a LOT OF HOPE
7-10 or worse is the feeling I am getting
September 5th, 2025 at 1:43 pm
Everybody ultimately has to learn how to play hurt to survive in the NFL- Vita is a 6’4 350 pound man- he probably has been proverbially sore for years now,especially in his foot- it’s just a matter of managing it as best as possible.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Joe … ‘Vea on the field certainly would be a huge bonus.’
Respectfully Joe, Vea is not a bonus … he’s THE key cog. Without him, our DLine & pass rush is toast. Take away Vea, and Bucs must have one of the lightest DLines in the NFL.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:45 pm
Friends of Aqualung feel that Vita is an underachiever, lacking the drive and self motivation to be one of the greatest, and missing the kind of coaching he needs to trigger a self vision for the HoF. Lavonte calling him out in the preseason is a prime example. Dude is very good, but could be HoF with his talent.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:51 pm
Vita been eating too much shellfish and not staying hydrated !! Has Gout written all over it. The weight of a bedsheet can feel like a razor blade. Get some prednisone and let’s roll big fella !!
September 5th, 2025 at 1:51 pm
Does he have kids? Maybe he stepped on a Lego when he woke up?
September 5th, 2025 at 1:53 pm
very impressed with the Buc’s training & conditioning staff!
September 5th, 2025 at 1:54 pm
St. Pete Matt, not sure about aqua, but Jeff and Jack are obviously the same trolls. Some form of negativity every post, rinse and repeat. Unoriginal and stupid.
September 5th, 2025 at 1:58 pm
I came on here to say Gout but I see it mentioned a few times.
September 5th, 2025 at 2:01 pm
VV will be going overboard soon. Part time player this misses games and a large salary. Time to get young at NT, Edge and ILB.
September 5th, 2025 at 2:03 pm
Smokescreen
September 5th, 2025 at 2:10 pm
I don’t understand some of the comments posted here. A person would think that there are bucs fans that want to be prophets of doom and gloom. I consider myself a realist, but even that attitude doesn’t warrant the naysayers here.
September 5th, 2025 at 2:14 pm
@Purplebeard,
I would LOVE to be wrong about Todd Blows, the pass defense, the health/injuries on the team and the bad roster composition. I am not being a ‘Hater” or Negative, I am just being realistic
Too much working against the Bucs to win in 2025.
September 5th, 2025 at 2:19 pm
I mean it could be any number of minor painful ailments, Plantar fascitis, ingrown toe nail, turf toe, blister, bruised bone. Time for a toradol shot and rock and roll.
September 5th, 2025 at 2:20 pm
Not positive, but I’m pretty sure that Prednisone is a banned substance in NFL circles.
September 5th, 2025 at 2:24 pm
Bucs will land somewhere between 11-6 and 13-4, depending on some luck in games where they are fairly equally matched.
How’s that for the opposite of negativity? 🙂
September 5th, 2025 at 2:33 pm
@SlyPirate,
I don’t know what the plans are for Chukwuma are, but he seems to be developing fast and can be a candidate for swing tackle.
September 5th, 2025 at 3:51 pm
There are many reasons why Vita has a sore foot. The most interesting one is from stepping on a Lego piece. I did just that and it hurt for two weeks! Maybe dooming Vea to the scrap heap could wait until after Sunday’s game.
September 5th, 2025 at 4:43 pm
he’s playing… especially on first down
September 5th, 2025 at 5:33 pm
Somebody check him for gout. Easy to misdiagnose as a foot or toe injury.
September 5th, 2025 at 5:44 pm
If it is gout, eating cherries and asparagus can be beneficial.
September 5th, 2025 at 5:55 pm
Have you had gout Cricket? Because that’s nonsense.
September 5th, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Most likely plantar fasciitis. When you sleep with your toes pointed downwards all night, then get up and put all that weight on your foot the tissues on the bottom of your foot get suddenly overstretched leading to micro tears and inflammation. The trick is to stretch your calf and the bottom of the foot before getting out of bed. Also, someone his size should never go barefoot, he should be wearing shoes with good arch support the minute he gets out of bed.
September 5th, 2025 at 7:28 pm
bunch of doctors on this site Vita pay attention
September 6th, 2025 at 8:19 am
Got to the point I no longer want to hear Todd talk about injuries. It seems that there is never any real info from him. Waste of time even reading it.
Go Bucs!
September 6th, 2025 at 9:48 am
I’ll give you the Falcons RB, but their line is a little beat up too.