Several injured players for the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are expected to be healthy for Super Bowl LV.
The Chiefs beating Le’Veon Bell (knee) and wide receiver Sammy Watkins (calf), as well as the Bucs duo of wide receiver Antonio Brown (knee) and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. (single), running back, is expected to be ready February 7, sources told Dianna Russini of ESPN.
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Watkins has played in ten games for the Chiefs in the regular season. He was injured earlier in the season and later with a calf injury, and he has not played in any of the Chiefs’ previous post-season games. Watkins finished fifth in the regular season on the Chiefs with 37 catches for 421 yards and two touchdowns.
Bell joined the Chiefs in October after being released from the New York Jets. Since his arrival, he has had a lesser impact on the Chiefs than expected. After the Chiefs lost Clyde Edwards-Helaire for a while, they overtook Bell and Darrel Williams made their award in a Week 16 game against the Hawks and in the division game against the Browns. During the regular season, Bell rushed 254 yards in nine games for the Chiefs.
Winfield suffered an ankle injury last Thursday and missed Friday’s practice. He still flew with the team to Green Bay, but after testing his ankle in warm-ups, it’s the best way to eliminate the game.
Brown, who has led the Bucs in targets for the last five weeks of the regular season, suffered a knee injury in the division against the New Orleans Saints. He did not train last week nor did he travel to Green Bay because the team felt he was not as far as they had hoped in his recovery, and they felt a plane could cause further swelling . Brown received a 36-yard drop in the game card game against Washington.
The Bucs’ other starting safety, Jordan Whitehead, who struggled two, left Sunday’s win over the Packers with a shoulder injury and did not return. Whitehead underwent an MRI on Monday, but sources told Jenna Laine of ESPN that it was too early to say whether he would be able to play in the Super Bowl, and that they would take it one day at a time to see how it’s going. .
Information from ESPN’s Adam Teicher and Jenna Laine was used in this report.