Trask had to re-enter the game with 1:03 left in the third quarter after Wolford was sacked by Jalyn Holmes and his head appeared to hit the turf with the Jets defensive lineman on top of him. "We were going to play Baker at the end of the half, but we wanted to see Kyle in the 2-minute period so we kind of left him in," said Bowles, who beat the team for which he was the head coach from 2015-18. Trask, listed with Mayfield as the starter on the Buccaneers’ unofficial depth chart, led two scoring drives, including a go-ahead 33-yard toss to rookie Trey Palmer that gave Tampa Bay (1-1) a 10-6 halftime lead. Mayfield rested with the rest of the starters - even after Trask was lifted and third-stringer John Wolford was carted off and taken to a hospital with a neck injury - a sign Mayfield might have moved closer to claiming the starting job.īut Bowles said he made “a decision at the last-minute” to not play Mayfield, who was 8 of 9 for 63 yards and one touchdown in Tampa Bay's preseason opener against Pittsburgh last week. “Everybody is going to play,” Bowles said. In fact, the Bucs’ QB competition could continue next Saturday night in Tampa Bay’s preseason finale at home against Baltimore. Kyle Trask started and took most of the snaps in the Buccaneers' 13-6 preseason victory Saturday night, but coach Todd Bowles declined to declare Mayfield the starter for the season. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' quarterback competition appeared to become a bit clearer when Baker Mayfield never left the sideline against the New York Jets. Backup Wolford injures neckĮAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Mayfield sits while Trask plays in Bucs' 13-6 preseason win over Jets.
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