NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports the Buccaneers are signing QB Teddy Bridgewater to a one-year deal.
Rapoport adds Bridgewater passed his physical on Tuesday after a workout. He also mentions Bridgewater will give Tampa Bay needed depth with QB Michael Pratt still not practicing.
Bridgewater, 32, is a former first-round pick of the Vikings back in 2014. He played out the final year of his four-year, $6,849,502 rookie contract after Minnesota declined to pick up his fifth-year option.
Bridgewater signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Jets that included just $500,000 guaranteed. However, the Jets later traded him to the Saints during the preseason, and he returned to New Orleans in 2019 on another one-year contract.
The Panthers signed Bridgewater to a three-year, $63 million contract in 2020. However, Carolina traded him to the Broncos. He then joined the Dolphins on a one-year deal and had been testing the free-agent market before signing with the Lions.
Bridgewater spent the 2024 season coaching high school football and won a state championship in Florida at his alma mater, Miami Northwestern High. He signed with Detroit in December 2024 and took some snaps in the postseason when Jared Goff had to be evaluated for a concussion.
In 2022, Bridgewater appeared in five games for the Dolphins, throwing for four touchdowns and four interceptions to go along with 683 yards and a completion percentage of 62 percent.
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