During Tuesday’s press conference, coach Bruce Arians stated that both of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ superstar wide receivers, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, whom ended the 2019 season on IR both respectively with hamstring injuries, have cleared their physicals.
Godwin finished the 2019 season with 14 games played totaling a stat line of 1,333 yards on 86 receptions to go along with nine touchdowns. Potentially even more impressive considering that Godwin finished third in receiving yards only behind the Atlanta Falcons’ Julio Jones, who played in 15 games, and the New Orleans Saints’ Michael Thomas, who was available for all 16 regular season games.
Evans finished his season a week prior with the same hamstring injury, and missed the remaining three games of the regular season. Ultimately, Evans would finish the year out with 1,157 receiving yards, 67 catches and eight touchdowns. Evans going over the 1,000-yard mark for the sixth time in just as many seasons put him in the rare company of Randy Moss as the only players ever to do so.
With the passing of their physicals, that gives the Buccaneers front office a breath of fresh air, as hamstring injuries have so many uncertainties that go along with them.