Bucky Irving rushed 17 times for 61 yards and a touchdown in the Bucs’ Week 13 win over the Cardinals, adding two receptions for 20 yards.

30 November 2025

Active for the first time since Week 4, Irving did let Rachaad White and Sean Tucker handle some drives — NextGenStats charted Irving as playing just 54 percent of the Bucs’ snaps — but the returning back was getting the ball basically every time he stepped on the field. His 13-yard touchdown run in the third quarter came one frame after a one-yard score was nullified by holding. The Bucs had clearly been waiting for this moment, and made the most of Irving’s plays even if their “snap count” warning was technically true. With Irving avoiding further injury in a critical win, we would expect the training wheels to fall off further for Week 14 against the Saints. If you held onto Irving all this time, he’s back to being a weekly must-start.