Buccaneers right tackle Luke Goedeke was questionable to play in Monday Night Football, but he is active.
The Bucs and Texans released their inactive list 90 minutes before the 7 p.m. ET kickoff.
Goedeke missed two practices last week before returning to a limited session Saturday. He passed a pregame assessment by the team’s medical staff.
He injured his foot in the team’s season-opening win over the Falcons.
The Bucs’ inactives are wide receiver Chris Godwin Jr. (foot), wide receiver Tez Johnson, running back Josh Williams, safety Rashad Wisdom, left tackle Tristan Wirfs (knee) and tight end Devin Culp.
However, safety Christian Izien (oblique) and rookie cornerback Benjamin Morrison (quad) are set to make their 2025 debuts after missing Week 1.
The Texans’ inactives are running back Dameon Pierce, wide receiver Christian Kirk (hamstring), wide receiver Braxton Berrios (hamstring), quarterback Graham Mertz, center Jake Andrews (ankle) and defensive tackle Tommy Togiai. Pierce is a healthy scratch.
The Buccaneers elevated offensive lineman Michael Jordan from the practice squad for Monday Night Football, the team announced. He will start at left guard again this week.
The team elevated Jordan before the Week 1 victory over the Falcons, and he played all 58 snaps.
The Bucs signed Jordan on July 24, and although he didn’t make the roster, the team re-signed him to the practice squad.
He has one more elevation before the Bucs will have to sign him to the active roster to get him on the game-day roster.
Jordan has appeared in 68 career games, including 41 starts, for the Bengals (2019–20), Panthers (2021–22), Patriots (2024) and Buccaneers (2025). He originally entered the league as a fourth-round selection of the Bengals in 2019.
The Texans elevated fullback Jakob Johnson from the practice squad for Monday Night Football, the team announced.
It is the second consecutive week the Texans have used an elevation for Johnson to play.
Dalton Schultz and Harrison Bryant are the only tight ends available tonight, so Johnson also will serve as the third tight end.
Johnson played seven offensive snaps and eight on special teams in Week 1.
He is in his seventh NFL season, having appeared in 71 games with 35 starts for the Patriots, Raiders, Giants and Texans. Johnson has 19 career receptions for 105 yards and one touchdown. He also has 11 career tackles.
The Buccaneers are facing the Texans on Monday night and the trip is giving wide receiver Mike Evans some bad memories of their last trip to Houston.
That came in Week 9 of the 2023 season and Evans, who is from Galveston, had a lot of family in the crowd to watch the game. Any hopes of celebration were dashed when Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud threw a touchdown to wide receiver Tank Dell with six seconds left in the game.
It was Stroud’s fifth touchdown pass of the game and it made the Texans 39-37 winners in a contest that still bothers Evans.
“I was pissed, I was hurting,” Evans said, via Mark Skol Jr. of FOX13 in Tampa. “It hurt. It was one of the worst losses I’ve had in my career. Hopefully we can get some payback.”
Evans had four catches for 87 yards in that loss to the Texans and he’ll be trying to do a little extra this time around to avoid returning to Tampa with another loss under his belt.
Former Colts and Panthers head coach Frank Reich earned his first win as interim head coach at Stanford on Saturday night — by beating Boston College and former Texans head coach Bill O’Brien, whom Reich had coached against seven times in the NFL.
Stanford’s 30-20 win over Boston College was the Cardinal’s first win since Stanford General Manager Andrew Luck named Reich the school’s interim head coach. Stanford ha an ugly start to the season with losses to Hawaii and BYU but looked much better against Boston College. Both Stanford and Boston College are now 1-2.
Reich was 5-2 coaching against O’Brien in the NFL, with the Colts winning four of their six regular-season matchups against the Texans in the three years both men coached in the AFC South, and Reich’s Colts also winning once in the playoffs.
Luck was hired to rebuild Stanford’s football program, and he hired Reich, his former Colts head coach, after firing Troy Taylor in March. It’s unclear whether Reich will eventually have the “interim” tag removed from his title and stay beyond this season, but he took a first step toward righting the ship on Saturday.
