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January 11 Updates

With their typical practice schedule pushed back a day in the lead-up to a Monday night game, the Buccaneers held a bonus walk-through on Wednesday. They are not required to put out their first injury report until after Thursday's practice, but it appears as if that list will be less daunting than it has been in recent weeks. Or perhaps all season.

The Bucs had eight players inactive or held out of their Week 18 game against Atlanta due to injury: Vita Vea, Donovan Smith, Tristan Wirfs, Carlton Davis, Mike Edwards, Logan Ryan, Carl Nassib and Julio Jones. In addition, Mike Evans sat out the game due to illness. They may have all or most of those players participating in practice on Thursday.

"Well see," said Offensive Coordinator Byron Leftwich on Wednesday. "This is probably the healthiest we've been since OTAs. We were banged up in OTAs. So it's good to have our guys out there."

Leftwich's assessment echoed Tom Brady's words on his "Let's Go" podcast on Monday. "I believe we're going to be as healthy as we've been all year," he said. Linebacker Lavonte David also noted after Wednesday's walk-through that it was good to have most of the team's regular defenders on the field together again.

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