Week 12: Buccaneers DT Vita Vea
With 40 seconds left in the first half of Tampa Bay’s 35-22 win over the Falcons, Jameis Winston threw a one-yard touchdown pass to his 347-pound nose tackle, and Vea became the heaviest player in NFL history to score on a reception. Given Winston’s knack for throwing the ball to defensive players this season, this play should not have come as a surprise.
Vea lined up at fullback, and nobody on Atlanta’s defense had any clue what to do with the “F-Drag” concept.
“I scored? I thought it was a dream,” Vea said after the game.
“He’s been waiting for this opportunity,” head coach Bruce Arians said earlier in the year of his fullback on just two snaps this season. “We might throw him a pass one of these days if he keeps blocking like that.”
And thus, the dream became reality.