The Emeka Egbuka Catch

August 12th, 2026

Sweet one-hand grab.

Between all the fights and the Luke Goedeke helmet-toss, there was a play pretty much not noticed or was mostly ignored at the Bucs-Jets practice yesterday in New Jersey.

Emeka Egbuka had a sick catch in warmups. OK, Joe’s not getting ahead of his skis. It was warmups — in walk-throughs. For those unaware, walk-throughs are when players go slow motion to practice a play so they get it right. They’re maybe going 20 percent, if that.

(Joe will recount a great Antonio Brown story, and it came from Lavonte David: If Brown was upset or mad or pouting, he didn’t believe in going through walk-throughs. So while everyone else was going maybe 20 percent speed, Brown was going all out, full blast, 110 percent. LOL He could have hurt someoe, including himself.)

So Mayfield tossed a pass to Egbuka in warm-ups, in walk-throughs, against air, and rather than using both hands to catch it, Egbuka just reaches out with one hand and plucks the ball out of mid-air. Palms the ball like some do with a basketball.

Egbuka was so nonchalant about this it’s crazy. Yet that catch showed his serious ball-catching skills. Yet Egbuka almost looked bored. No big deal. Been there, done that. Routine day at the office.

The ball was clearly way over Egbuka’s head and it appeared when Egbuka grabbed it, the ball was past him.

Egbuka looked like he was picking an orange off a tree.

The Twitter video by FOX Sports NFL columnist Ralph Vacchiano got a lot of run. Vacchiano even said when he posted it he was out in the sun and never noticed what he had until later in the day indoors.

Joe sure would love to see Egbuka pull that off in a game.

4 Responses to “The Emeka Egbuka Catch”

  1. ATLBuc Says:

    Joe says:
    Joe sure would love to see Egbuka pull that off in a game.
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    He did. I forgot who we were playing against but he had a beautiful one hander on the sidelines.

  2. Darealist727 Says:

    @ATLBuc…yeah that was the catch were Baker joked and told him not to disrespect his passes like that🤣

  3. MelvinJunior Says:

    Cam Coleman sure did have one for himself, the other day!!!!

  4. Erik with Clean Athletics™ Says:

    It’s weird how he can make tough/amazing catches once in awhile, but drop so many balls in the 2nd half of the season that Baker basically had to stop targeting him because his hands were so unreliable in the 2nd half of the season.

    Hopefully he catches the ball more consistently. 💯

    He’ll be a good WR3, WR4, or WR5 behind Godwin, Hurst, McMillan, & maybe even Tez.

 

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