Nose Tackle · Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Vita Vea

No. 50 · 9th season

Vita Vea showed up. The contract question didn't go anywhere.

He was there. Every day of the mandatory spring sessions, Vita Vea checked in with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — but he didn't practice. Showed up, didn't suit up, and the team noted the whole thing as contract-related.

Vea has been one of the best defensive tackles in football, the kind of player an offense has to plan around before the game even starts. A deal worth getting right.

Skipping all three days would have cost him just over $107,000 in fines. He avoided that. What he didn't avoid is the conversation that's clearly still waiting — because attending a practice and being happy about your contract are two very different things.

The Buccaneers have their player in the building. Whether they have a deal he's satisfied with is still an open question.

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