Injury Updates On Jalen McMillan, Tristan Wirfs
August 6th, 2026
Joe hoped head coach Todd Bowles would drop the “day-to-day” description today when talking about injuries to receiver Jalen McMillan and All-World left tackle Tristan Wirfs.
Sadly, that did not come.
Wirfs is nursing a hamstring pull or tear suffered nine days ago. He has not been practicing. Joe is almost ready to call it a significant hamstring issue. Today, Todd Bowles said of Wirfs, “I do expect him back at some point during the preseason.”
That’s nice. Last year, Wirfs missed all of camp after knee surgery, and he missed the first three weeks of the regular season and wasn’t quite his usual dominant self. Obviously, a hamstring isn’t knee surgery, but perhaps Wirfs is a player who needs training camp to thrive?
Hopefully not.
Bowles also addressed McMillan’s banged up knee. The Bucs haven’t been specific on the injury. “Not sure how long,” Bowles said.
Joe hopes it’s not a deep knee bruise. Those can be nasty and take a month or more to heal.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:19 pm
Practice field turf is the best…..
August 6th, 2026 at 2:22 pm
Wirfs never practiced.. just hurt himself running, right?
August 6th, 2026 at 2:25 pm
JBF is done….
August 6th, 2026 at 2:31 pm
…..and no one’s even taken a hard hit yet………….
August 6th, 2026 at 2:32 pm
We have the worst conditioning staff in the NFL. I swear, our trainers were all rejects from a Town n Country Planet Fitness.
Franchise is worth BILLIONS. No one has a leg curl machine for our WR corps.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:33 pm
Look at any blog on any NFL team. It is all the same. The players are intercangeable. each team is doing the same thing including JBF. It is simple propaganda. All the teams are SB bound. So pathetic. Fans are like lapping it all up. Mods are watching for negative waves. Each teams 1st round pick is a HERO heading for stardom……
August 6th, 2026 at 2:34 pm
“a pull or tear….”
What’s next, amputation may be necessary?
August 6th, 2026 at 2:34 pm
Grover Says:
August 6th, 2026 at 2:19 pm
Practice field turf is the best….
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Pulled hammies can on any surface. The Rays’ Ben Williamson is on his way to the IL after pulling one on the grass at Coors Field yesterday, for example.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:35 pm
Bucs are just being cautious. I don’t think either of these guys miss time to start the season.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:35 pm
Honesty obviously too much of a stretch for the turtle. Too busy telling us how he can live without Vea.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:38 pm
Headline should have been NO injury update.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Doesn’t matter! a big boy like that ,it’ll be nagging all season
August 6th, 2026 at 2:40 pm
Give Vea a raise ,put him on the Oline! Oh wait he’s “tweaked ” to
August 6th, 2026 at 2:43 pm
LOUSY MEDICAL/TRAINING STAFF!!!!
GO BUCS!!!!
August 6th, 2026 at 2:46 pm
Watching the Buc Camp online it looks like a modern dance class. Tiptoe through the turf. Pathetic.
August 6th, 2026 at 2:49 pm
Very informative article.
August 6th, 2026 at 3:02 pm
Honestly, these guys need some Pilates classes- that’d stretch their hammies.
August 6th, 2026 at 3:12 pm
On Hardknocks all those guys were pumped on the first day of pads. Excited to actually hit.
Us? Todd told our players not to hit too hard, don’t tackle to the ground.
And yet half our young guys have missed time with soreness. Still a soft team.
August 6th, 2026 at 3:13 pm
“The best ability is availability.” Bill Parcells.
August 6th, 2026 at 3:23 pm
People on here are going out of their minds over injuries. Every NFL team is dealing with some sort of injury. Look at the Saints, Falcons and Panthers, more severe than the Bucs.
August 6th, 2026 at 3:31 pm
at least the bucs have a speed coach
August 6th, 2026 at 3:53 pm
HeartyDickerson Says:
And yet half our young guys have missed time with soreness. Still a soft team.
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Miles Garrett has missed the last 4 days with soreness, is he soft?
Hamstring tears are about a team’s emotional bearing? Try running with one sometime and see how you feel about it.
Fans like you are funny. Get down to 5% body fat while having a job that requires sprinting 100 times per day and see how muscle injuries affect you.
August 6th, 2026 at 5:01 pm
Wirfs could lose a little weight
August 6th, 2026 at 5:32 pm
There is great news on the horizon…….Carl Nicks’ toe has almost healed.
August 6th, 2026 at 5:57 pm
Grover, no one’s holding a gun to your head and forcing you to participate here dude. At least you didn’t come in with your insipid record prediction like you usually do. What a miserable life you must have.
August 6th, 2026 at 6:15 pm
It’s all that Todd Bowles’ fault. Laces out Todd!
August 6th, 2026 at 6:39 pm
Grover isn’t grounded anymore. Grandma gave him his computer back. He is back to posting gibberish
August 6th, 2026 at 6:53 pm
Wirfs clearly peaked, and is now on the downside of his career.
August 6th, 2026 at 7:11 pm
JM is injured….wow I’m so shocked.
Gotta get hurst ready. Great draft pick.
August 6th, 2026 at 7:18 pm
Jalen McMillan was hurt some last season and now this season already. Maybe he is starting to show a knack for being injury prone. And I maintain Wirfs will not ever be the same 100% healthy like he was in 2024 and prior. Remember news people talking in there reports last offseason and last preseason about him doing something to hurt himself seriously last offseason and went overseas to get additional opinions and medical treatment and then didn’t start playing until later in the season. Don’t get me wrong Tristin Wirfs is the best tackle in football even at less than 100%. But my guess is he is going to start showing more injuries this season and future seasons too. But he is still awesome! Go Bucs!
August 6th, 2026 at 7:23 pm
Every damn training camp we start off with so many soft tissue injuries? What is the league doing now that they didn’t do 20 plus years ago that is causing all these injures??? They use to 2 and 3 of days 20 plus years ago and now these players can’t even get through one practice without a soft tissue injury?? Yet they all want more money too??
August 6th, 2026 at 8:26 pm
Bobby Says:
Jalen McMillan was hurt some last season and now this season already. Maybe he is starting to show a knack for being injury prone.
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LOL, good grief. If you were an actual Bucs fan you’d know McMillan was served a hospital ball pass that caused him to land on his head at high speed and nearly rip his neck off. If that makes a person ‘injury prone’ then the entire human race falls into this category.
August 6th, 2026 at 9:24 pm
Bobby’s an idiot.
McMillan jumped high enough to du k a basketball and came down on his head.
After that, he walked off the field waving to the fans that he was okay.
He actually broke vertebratae in his cervical spine. Tough SOB… classify that as injury prone? He came back from all of that and actually played decently well towards the end of the season. The defense sucked, Baker was hurt and our Online was all busted up. McMillan probably could have played better if other things were going well.
August 6th, 2026 at 10:13 pm
Disappointing our All World left tackle can’t get through training camp’s initial conditioning test, that all players knew in advance they would have to do, without getting hurt.
August 7th, 2026 at 12:31 am
Gosh I remember starting Football Practice in High School an that 1st Week was rough body is Super Sore an you do pull things but They Ramp up slow idk why so many injuries esp from practice where guys are not supposed to be fully tackling but what do I know
August 7th, 2026 at 1:13 am
Seriously. Come-on, people… It is THE NFL. Both, the Panthers AND Falcons have ALREADY, LOST STUDS for the SEASON. And, the NINERS once again, were WITHOUT “20-PLAYERS” at Practice Today… They barely even had enough TO PRACTICE. And, yes… Mike Evans, was one of them. With a Quad.
August 7th, 2026 at 8:46 am
Steve V Says:
August 6th, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Doesn’t matter! a big boy like that ,it’ll be nagging all season
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Probably accurate, but less concerning than if it’s a WR or QB dealing with it. Tackles generally aren’t relying on speed or burst. I’d be much more concerned if it was a quad or calf injury.
August 7th, 2026 at 8:53 am
^^ My mistake… not QB… RB.