Tag: Doug Martin

Bucs RB Sean Tucker named NFC Offensive Player of the Week

Headlining the team with 136 rushing yards, three receptions for 56 yards, and two total touchdowns was Bucs running back Sean Tucker.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers set a franchise record with 594 net yards of offense in Sunday’s 51-27 victory over the New Orleans Saints.

While the Saints’ defense posted a box score that showed three interceptions, they had no answer for the Bucs’ offensive attack. Headlining the team with 136 rushing yards, three receptions for 56 yards, and two total touchdowns was Bucs running back Sean Tucker, who has been named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for Week 6.

Not only did the second-year running back gash the Saints defense, averaging a sweltering 9.7 yards per carry on 14 carries, but Tucker’s 192 yards from scrimmage were also the third-highest in a single game through six weeks of the 2024 NFL season, trailing only Derrick Henry’s 209-yard and Ja’Marr Chase’s 193-yard performances.

Following Tucker’s dominating performance, he entered elite company, becoming the fourth RB in Bucs franchise history (Doug Martin x2, Warrick Dunn x2, and James Wilder) to total 192+ yards from scrimmage.

Adding further to the impressive resume that Tucker built in Week 6, this becomes the first Offensive Player of the Week award that a Bucs running back has won since Leonard Fournette against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 12 of 2021.

27 Days, 27 Picks: RB Doug Martin

Did someone say Muscle Hamster?

In 27 Days, 27 Picks, Bucs Wire will analyze the last 27 Tampa Bay Buccaneers first-round draft picks, one for each day leading up to the 2023 NFL draft. We’ll take a look at the player’s college stats, their pre-draft numbers (either via the NFL Combine or their Pro Day), their NFL stats, some player footage and analysis at the end on whether the pick itself was a good one.

The first pick from Tampa Bay in the 2012 NFL draft was safety Mark Barron, but the Bucs got to take another player at the end of the first round. That player would go on to get a first-team All-Pro with the Bucs and is still the team’s last 1000-yard rusher, but his tenure in Tampa Bay was marred with inconsistencies.

Check out the draft rundown on RB Doug Martin below:

Former Bucs RB Doug Martin named worst fantasy player of the decade

In their look at the best and worst of the NFL over the past decade, ESPN had former Bucs running back Doug Martin taking this title.

The 2020 season will kick off a new decade of NFL football, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are also hoping to put the woes of the 2010s behind them, and signing Tom Brady to lead their offense seems like a good place to start.

But before the new season rolls around, ESPN’s NFL Nation decided to take a look back at some of the best and worst from the NFL over the past decade in terms of signings, teams and even fantasy players.

And when it comes to fantasy football, it seems no player was worse than former Buccaneers running back Doug Martin.

Here is Tristan H. Cockcroft’s reasoning:

“Martin had the second-highest-scoring fantasy game by any player in the 2010s (55.2 PPR points, Week 9 of 2012), and the sixth-highest-scoring season by any rookie in the 2010s (311.6 PPR points, 2012), but Martin’s disappointments overshadowed his accomplishments. He was the No. 5 overall pick on average in 2013, and saw an 8.1-PPR-point-per game decline in production before suffering a season-ending labrum injury in October. He was the No. 8 pick in 2014 and 2016, and failed to reach the 90-point threshold in either season. From 2012 through 2018, Martin played in 84 games, and in only 10 of them did he score as many as 20 PPR fantasy points.”

While the ESPN piece is bad news for Martin, it’s good news for Tom Brady, whose New England Patriots were, perhaps not surprisingly, named the team of the decade after five Super Bowl appearances and three wins.

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