The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are bringing back a familiar face to their quarterbacks room with Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask next season.
Playing the role of NFL insider, Bucs general manager Jason Licht announced on Friday that the team had agreed to terms with veteran John Wolford on a contract with the team. He returns to Tampa Bay after spending the 2023 season on and off the team’s practice squad.
“Bucs have agreed to terms with John Wolford, per source,” Licht wrote on X, jokingly pretending to be a reporter.
Wolford is heading into his seventh NFL season but has hardly played. He started four games for the Los Angeles Rams between 2020 and 2022, going 2-2 in those games with a career completion rate of 58.7-percent. Wolford was also a backup to Matthew Stafford during the Rams’ 2021 Super Bowl season.
Last season Wolford served as the practice squad quarterback of the Buccaneers and did not see the field at all.
As a college prospect, Wolford played four seasons at Wake Forest, setting several records and earned Second-team All-ACC honors in 2017. He went undrafted in 2018 and did not play in the NFL as a rookie.
Wolford decided to give minor league football a try, joining the newly-formed Alliance of American Football as a quarterback for that Arizona Hotshots. In the league’s short-lived season, he led the league in touchdown passes with 14 in eight games.
How much longer will Wolford be able to keep up his NFL career with the Buccaneers?