{"id":59126,"date":"2019-03-16T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=59126"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T15:06:12","slug":"shaq-barrett-signs-with-the-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/03\/16\/shaq-barrett-signs-with-the-tampa-bay-buccaneers\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq Barrett Signs With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-year NFL veteran <strong>Shaq Barrett<\/strong> signed a one-year, $5 million contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>. This deal will keep him with the team until 2020. Barrett, a one-time Super Bowl champion, has spent the entirety of his NFL career with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/broncos\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Broncos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bucs agree to terms with Shaq Barrett on one-year deal for $5 million, per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1106618090157166592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Shaq Barrett Signs Deal With Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/h1>\n<p>Barrett played 13 games for the Denver Broncos in 2018 without making a start. Playing situationally, Barrett finished his season with three sacks, 28 tackles, seven quarterback hits, and one defended pass. The sack total was his lowest since 2016 while the tackle total was the lowest of his career. While his overall numbers were down, the advanced analytics website Pro Football Focus felt Barrett played adequately in 2018. He didn\u2019t play enough snaps to qualify for a league-wide ranking, but Pro Football Focus gave Barrett an above-average 75.9 grade for his 2018 efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett played college at Nebraska-Omaha and Colorado State. He initially entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent back in the 2014 season. Playing in all four preseason games, the then-rookie earned a season-long role on the practice squad after recording six tackles and two sacks in the preseason.<\/p>\n<p>The former undrafted free agent made his NFL debut in Week One of the 2015 season. Playing in all 16 games, Barrett recorded 5.5 sacks, 42 tackles, and 12 quarterback hits for the eventual Super Bowl champions. Barrett\u2019s best game of the 2015 season came in Week Six against the Cleveland Browns. Filling in for an injured <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WareDe99.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeMarcus Ware<\/a><\/strong>, Barrett recorded 1.5 sacks, nine tackles, three tackles-for-loss, and two quarterback hits. He also forced and recovered a fumble in Denver\u2019s 26-23 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett spent the next three seasons on the Broncos active roster, serving as a rotational role player. Throughout his career, the five-year NFL veteran has accumulated 14 sacks, 137 tackles, 35 quarterback hits, and seven forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"-ZnNLpTqSq5mvZDUy_KYbA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1076018896\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-ZnNLpTqSq5mvZDUy_KYbA',sig:'VYnlZBgVKQNof3xwtH0FgTCpNHhc1osTceZ1KyXWiMw=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1076018896',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing situationally, Shaq Barrett finished his 2018 season with three sacks, 28 tackles, seven quarterback hits, and one defended pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":59127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29],"tags":[266,61,40,246,4819],"class_list":["post-59126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-buccaneers","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-news","tag-shaq-barrett"],"modified_by":"Will Noltie, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}