Chris Godwin on Franchise Designate: ‘I will Play on It and Dash Support to War’ with Bucs
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Huge receiver Chris Godwin is commence to returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers if the team of workers feeble the franchise assign on him.
“A franchise assign isn’t very something that I will be able to adjust. If that is what keeps me right here, then that is what it is,” Godwin suggested NFL Network’s MJ Acosta (h/t Grant Gordon of NFL.com). “And I will play on it and trot serve to war with my guys. Treasure I acknowledged, I luxuriate in it right here in Tampa, I luxuriate in what now we hold constructing and I’d earn to stop.”
His most modern assertion is an a lot like what he acknowledged all by procedure of the lead-up to the Natty Bowl, when he acknowledged that he preferred the team of workers nonetheless that free company used to be “positively something I’m indubitably brooding about.”
Godwin used to be the Bucs’ second-absolute top receiver all by procedure of the extraordinary season, with 840 yards and 7 touchdowns to accelerate Mike Evans’ 1,006 yards and 13 rankings. A third-round take in 2017, Godwin is coming off the rookie deal he signed when the team of workers drafted him out of Penn Verbalize.
The 24-year-archaic has expressed his need for a elevate on his next contract after incomes $3.3 million on his rookie deal. Alongside with his consistent production—coming off of a 1,333-yard 2019 season—he’s attributable to form roughly 5 instances that wage on a recent deal.
If he does stick round, that can provide a significant different for the Bucs to shuffle it serve in 2021. Quarterback Tom Brady, Evans, main operating serve Ronald Jones II and linebacker Devin White are amongst gamers who’re beneath contract for the upcoming season.
The closing date to discipline the franchise assign on gamers is March 9.