{"id":325510,"date":"2026-04-28T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=325510"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:41:10","slug":"buccaneers-exercise-dl-calijah-kanceys-fifth-yr-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/buccaneers-exercise-dl-calijah-kanceys-fifth-yr-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers Exercise DL Calijah Kancey&#8217;s Fifth-Yr Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Calijah Kancey<\/strong> missed most of last season, clouding his fifth-year option call. However the 2023 first-round pick\u2019s lengthy injury-driven absence also reduced his option price, creating an interesting decision for the Buccaneers.<\/p>\n<p>The team will bet on the Pittsburgh alum, announcing Monday it&#8217;ll exercise Kancey\u2019s option. This can bring a $14.48MM guarantee for the 2027 season. Kancey, who missed two games as a rookie and five in 2024, has not been especially reliable in Tampa. But he has impressed when on the sphere. The Bucs will hope for higher health moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>That 2024 12-game season brought 7.5 sacks and 11 tackles for loss; Kancey\u2019s rookie yr featured 4 sacks and 10 TFLs. The Bucs, who lost 2022 second-round pick <strong>Logan Hall<\/strong> to the Texans in free agency, still have loads of Kancey stock. While the team did re-sign <strong>Rakeem Nunez-Roches<\/strong> and add <strong>A\u2019Shawn Robinson<\/strong> in free agency, Kancey still profiles as <strong>Vita Vea<\/strong>\u2018s top sidekick on this defensive position.<\/p>\n<p><em>More to return.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calijah Kancey missed most of last season, clouding his fifth-year option call. However the 2023 first-round pick\u2019s lengthy injury-driven absence also reduced his option price, creating an interesting decision for the Buccaneers. The team will bet on the Pittsburgh alum, announcing Monday it&#8217;ll exercise Kancey\u2019s option. This can bring a $14.48MM guarantee for the 2027 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[7986,51099,8231,8344,51100,2483],"class_list":["post-325510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-buccaneers","tag-calijah","tag-exercise","tag-fifthyear","tag-kanceys","tag-option"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325513,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325510\/revisions\/325513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}