Second Chris Godwin Fibula Injury Different Yet Related To Original One
December 4th, 2025
Chris Godwin
Receiver Chris Godwin had two surgeries on his fibula (read: ankle destroyed) last season against the Crows. He returned this season in Week 4 against Philadelphia and in the next game against Seattle had another fibula injury and gutted through 47 plays.
Godwin didn’t take the field again until Week 12 at Los Angeles. He didn’t look the same.
But Sunday against Arizona, Godwin looked like the old Chris Godwin. So yesterday when Godwin spoke with the local pen and mic club, he mentioned the fibula injury he suffered at Seattle was not the same injury for which he had two surgeries — or, one surgery and a “cleanup.”
However, Godwin said the second injury was partially caused by the first fibula injury.
“It was a different injury,” Godwin said without offering details. “The first injury impacts the next one, right? It makes things a little bit more vulnerable.
“It was unfortunate, but we don’t really control the things that life throws at us, we can only control our response to it. I take a lot of pride in being able to do that even though it’s not easy at times.”
Some fans thought it was the same injury, in part due to the Bucs’ remaining tight-lipped about injuries. The Bucs rarely offer up anything more than the most generic, generalized description of an injury (“He’s sore.”)
As the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio once famously said, “Silence invites speculation.” And with the Bucs pretending they were protecting the Enigma codes, the lone description of Godwin’s second injury as “fibula” invited fans to connect dots thinking his original injury that required two surgeries was the issue.
Thankfully, Godwin is healthy and looks to be rebounding just fine.
December 4th, 2025 at 6:15 am
going fwd i hope they don’t send him over there middle to get sandwiched by two defenders or hip dropped. he does better near the sideline. don’t throw mike evans deep ball’s when the defender is laying on him and don’t sail passed on JMac let’s keep the guys healthy for the end of the season!!
December 4th, 2025 at 6:39 am
Joe, your headline made me feel sick until I read CG14 is healthy. I thought this was another injury!
December 4th, 2025 at 7:04 am
He looks slow to me. Kind of plodding around out there. As we know, Clueless Todd destroyed Godwin’s career in a blowout loss.
December 4th, 2025 at 7:21 am
Pō-tā-tō; Puh-tah-tō
December 4th, 2025 at 7:27 am
No matter what is shared, people will talk about what’s not said. And trolls are gonna troll.
December 4th, 2025 at 8:12 am
Good for Chris talking about the last injury being different. He didn’t look the same against the Rams, but he sure looked a lot better against the Cardinals. Wishing him continuing success. Just wait until we have Chris, Mike, and Jalen fully healthy! Go Bucs!
December 4th, 2025 at 8:38 am
CG14 looked good for missing some much time….gotta get the hands back right but his route running and separation looked good imo…
GO BUCS!!!!
December 4th, 2025 at 9:50 am
This team can still score 40 a game if everyone gets back.
That headline scared me because Im used to seeing bad news.
Hopefully we can turn a corner and do what we did in 2020.
Win 9 in a row here.
December 4th, 2025 at 10:30 am
CG14 has been looking better every game. I hope this continues against the Saints!
December 4th, 2025 at 11:04 am
What a bad signing. Cut him if you can.
December 4th, 2025 at 11:06 am
Enough with the acronyms be CG14 or Rjd2
December 4th, 2025 at 12:01 pm
“Silence invites speculation.” = “if you don’t answer my question then I’m free to make stuff up.”
December 4th, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Jeff,
Your eyes are receiving you is you thought Godwin looked slow this past Sunday.
For the 2st time this year, he was every bit as fast as he’s ever been. (Which is decently fast, not an elite speed guy, but not slow at all.)
December 4th, 2025 at 12:13 pm
*deceiving not receiving
December 4th, 2025 at 12:18 pm
Suggesting cutting Godwin now shows some fans have no concept of the salary cap implications that would hamstring the franchise’s ability to improve their roster in the immediate future.
2025: Cutting Godwin would result in a negative $49.91million cap saving, because the team would be forced to absorb his large dead cap hit of $62.85 million.
2026: Cutting him would result in a negative $16.23 million cap saving, due to a dead cap hit of around $16.23 million.
2027: Releasing him would be the first time the team would save money, creating approximately $13.7 million in cap space.
If Godwin plays out his contract into 2027, he also has two void years 2028-2029: costing the team another $4,149,000 of cap space per season as his signing bonus would have been spread out into the voided contract years.
December 4th, 2025 at 12:30 pm
11 receptions this season in spot duty and 7 of those went for first downs. We’ll need Chris to help keeping drives alive.
December 4th, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Luv Godwin. But truth be told, he’s only about 4 or 5 hard hits away from hanging it up. Some guys are not built for that yr end and out beating up the body. Happens to the best of them.
December 4th, 2025 at 12:47 pm
All that right lipped action really gave them an edge this season didn’t it lmao
December 4th, 2025 at 12:50 pm
I hope he can continue to get healthy, and play the next two years injury free. That seems unlikely though with all the major injuries he’s already had. He even said himself, one lead to the other. You can only survive so many car crashes. Godwin is a cat living his 9th life. One more major hit, and it’s over.
December 4th, 2025 at 12:57 pm
fibula injuries happen all the time i really believed the bucs that was just a major coincidence