The Tampa Bay Buccaneers yesterday formally announced the re-signing of defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh.
The team did not disclose terms of the contract, but reports last week put the deal at one year for $8 million.
“Ndamukong Suh has been one of the game’s premier interior defensive linemen for more than a decade,” Bucs general manager Jason Licht said in a statement.
“The toughness, durability and remarkable football IQ that Suh brings has been instrumental to the transformation of our defense over the past two seasons. We are really excited to have his presence on the field and in the locker room again in Tampa Bay.”
Suh recorded 44 tackles, six sacks and one forced fumble in 16 games last season with the Buccaneers.
The 34-year-old Suh spent his first five seasons with the Detroit Lions (2010-14) before joining the Miami Dolphins in 2015 on a six-year, $114 million contract. That was then the richest contract for a defensive player in NFL history. Suh has collected 563 tackles and 64.5 sacks in 174 career games with the Lions, Dolphins (2015-17), Los Angeles Rams (2018) and Buccaneers since being selected with the second overall pick of the 2010 NFL Draft.
Buccaneers cornerback Carlton Davis has apologised for using an anti-Asian slur on Sunday in a tweet that has since been deleted, saying he was not aware of the word’s “darker, negative connotation”.
Davis said it was not his intention to offend and the term had a different meaning in South Florida.
“I used a term that from where I come from has always meant ‘lame’ but I did not realise it has a much darker, negative connotation,” Davis tweeted.
“I have learned a valuable lesson and want to apologise to anyone that was offended by seeing that word because we need to focus on helping each other during these tough times.”
In the last year, there has been increased reports of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States.
The Biden administration has announced measures responding to rising anti-Asian violence, including deploying $49.5 million from Covid-19 relief funds for U.S. community programs that help victims.
“... I’ll retire that word from my vocabulary giving the hard times our Asian family are enduring,” Davis added.

Brady’s signed rookie card sells for record $2.25 million
The so-called “Holy Grail” of Tom Brady’s rookie cards sold
for a record $2.25 million at auction on Friday to an anonymous buyer, two months after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback picked up his seventh Super Bowl title.
The signed card from the 43-year-old’s rookie season with the New England Patriots is one of “only a handful ever offered for sale,” according to auctioneer Lelands, which called it the best Tom Brady rookie card available to the public.
The sale smashes the previous record price for a football card. Last month, another card from Brady’s rookie season fetched $1.32 million in an online auction.
“Tom Brady continues to shatter records both on and off the football field. The GOAT, Brady now holds the distinction of having the most expensive football card ever sold,” Lelands President Mike Heffner said in a written statement, calling the card “one for the ages.”
Brady, who picked up his fifth Super Bowl MVP honours in February after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs at home in the championship game, is one of just two quarterbacks to have hoisted the Lombardi Trophy with two different teams and is widely considered one of the greatest ever to play the game.