Benjamin Morrison Sits Out Practice
August 6th, 2025
Injured.
UPDATED: The old expression, ‘you can’t make the club from tub,’ is in Joe’s head this morning.
Bucs Super Bowl cornerback Jamel Dean, an injury prone player who typically stays healthy and strong every summer, surely knows all about that saying.
Dean is having a solid camp, as usual, and he’s healthy. The guy threatening Dean’s job can’t exactly say the same thing. Rookie second-round pick Benjamin Morrison sat out practice today with a hamstring injury.
Joe’s been watching Morrison and Joe sees a guy walking a bit differently than usual today and standing while leaning on his left leg often. And he’s got his shorts rolled up on only his right leg.
A rookie sitting out practice three days prior to the preseason opener is a tough look. Fellow draft pick Tez Johnson, the seventh-round receiver/returner, is also on the practice sidelines today as a spectator. That’s three consecutive missed practices for Johnson. It’s been a tough summer for the Bucs rookie class. Fourth-round pick edge rusher David Walker is out for the year after a blowing a knee in camp.
The Bucs are not required to disclose any injuries officially for another four weeks.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:40 am
This better be precautionary!
August 6th, 2025 at 10:45 am
Can’t help but to question why Licht drafted Benjamin Morrison with known hip problems to replace a CB (Dean) who has a history of injuries.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:47 am
The UDFAs has to take advantage of these guys absences
August 6th, 2025 at 10:47 am
ABF because, if healthy, the guy is a first round pick. And the guy didn’t really have injuries, he had congenital defects that were corrected. Worth the gamble.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:48 am
We need the secondary to be better and the pass rush obviously to improve this year. This is not good.
August 6th, 2025 at 10:53 am
Torn labrum on the left hip was the most recent injury. Right hip surgery in high school was the corrective surgery for a bilateral hip condition. Hope this is just Morrison being throttled down, than it is something serious.
August 6th, 2025 at 11:04 am
Hamstrings. What a surprise.
Bucs training staff = abject fail.
August 6th, 2025 at 11:08 am
Prior injuries aren’t a concern with this guy, but a hamstring means he’s out at least a week, probably longer methinks
August 6th, 2025 at 11:14 am
No one can go IR before the season opener or they are out the year. This is definitely tough. The bodies are racking up. The falcons have some injuries too but not the same amount as us man week 1 is like a playoff game and it is not looking good. Just end practice now and bubble wrap dudes. If we lose a key player during joint practices I may just avoid watching the bucs this year!
August 6th, 2025 at 11:16 am
Hamstring injuries scare the he11 out of me in this scorching summer heat. My experience playing sports when younger is that if you don’t let them completely heal, you’ll tweak it again before the season’s over. I’m convinced that’s what happened to Jamel Dean last season when he tweaked his hamstring in the 1st New Orleans game. Was out for the next game, then on IR for 3 games. Looked ‘slow’ the rest of the season IMO, and his performance pretty much reflected that.
No need to rush Morrison back onto the field. He’s having a good camp so far.
August 6th, 2025 at 11:39 am
If only they had an indoor training facility to practice in, and beat this summer heat. Four of their home games are in the back half of the season, when heat won’t be an advantage, or factor. The first 2 games are on the road indoors. Yet they insist on beating these players to a pulp in dangerous heat conditions. Stupid is as stupid does.
August 6th, 2025 at 12:02 pm
Hodad I’m with you there. Maybe one or two in the heat, practice in the cool. Go Bucs
August 6th, 2025 at 12:03 pm
Relax, week 1 means nothing.
August 6th, 2025 at 12:07 pm
@Defense Rules, with all the depth we have at CB right now, they should let him get back to 100% so that injury doesn’t have a lasting effect! Hopefully, it’s only a grade 1 injury.
August 6th, 2025 at 12:13 pm
Fire this training staff i swear. If you cant figure it out the same issues again and again
August 6th, 2025 at 12:15 pm
True hamstring injuries suck they can linger all year. Every time you think it’s better and you use that last gear it flares up again.
August 6th, 2025 at 12:20 pm
rest up kid….
time for josh hayes to step up
GO BUCS!!!!!!
August 6th, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Tweaked hamstrings are at least 2 weeks. Start of the season in four weeks should be good before then as long as it’s just a tweak.
August 6th, 2025 at 1:41 pm
Yeah I gotta agree with folks here calling for the trainers but I wonder how many other teams experience the same thing during camp? We seem to have more than our share of them. Practicing in this heat isn’t a bad thing but I’m wondering if it’s a combination of hydration,{I think they really push that}, stretching, keeping loose between scrimmages so they don’t tighten or maybe a particular players susceptibility to this, I happen to think they are random but particularly fast twitch guys like receivers and DB’s get these a lot. I also think the CBA hurts these guys in the long run and the time could be better managed during the spring and fall and kinda go old school like leaving out mini camps and report to camp as a team and work on slowly getting into shape
August 6th, 2025 at 1:59 pm
Gotta stay hydrated trainers can’t do anything about that. I’m actually ok with this to see if corners at the bottom of the roster are getting roasted
August 6th, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Wow! A lot of paranoid talk with plenty of weeks to go until the season starts.
You’d think this team has had previous injury problems or something!😉
IMO the only thing that derails the Bucs from being great this season is injuries. Do we need to overhaul the training staff?
Or at least bring in a hamstring specialist? Where’s the pliability? Where’s the TB12 method, did it go out the door with Tom?
August 6th, 2025 at 2:51 pm
The other teams in the NFCS are not having these huge hamstring problems.
August 6th, 2025 at 6:53 pm
The Buc stops at the HC’s (DC’s) desk. He is tolerating it. Assuming “it is what it is.” Too many other things to worry about with his two full time jobs he can only do half time.
Soft tissue injuries happening at this frequency rate is insanity. A leader gets on this and demands an improved conditioning program on his desk by Friday.
Not our guy.
August 7th, 2025 at 5:33 am
I heard Morrison couldn’t have surgery on both hips in highschool because he needed to wait for the latter hip to finish growing before having surgery! Not a totally different issue then the other hip !!??