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Chris Godwin Names Smartest Receiver He Ever Played With September 3rd, 2026It’s Year 10 for iconic Bucs receiver Chris Godwin, so he’s played with a lot of guys at wide receiver, from Vincent Jackson to DeSean Jackson and Mike Evans, to Antonio Brown, Julio Jones and more. So who was the smartest player to patrol the Bucs receivers rooms? Godwin went there without being asked during his sitdown with the Green Light podcast. (Joe listened on SiriusXM NFL Radio.) Emeka Egbuka, you win the grand prize. “It’s almost like looking at like what I was like as a young guy, but like his mental capacity is so much like further than what mine was at that point [in my career],” Godwin said of the second-year Bucs receiver. “I would say he’s the smartest receiver that I’ve been around. Like he understands football from like just the overall perspective. Like, he looks at it through almost like a quarterback’s lens. “It’s like having an understanding of where to sit in zones, but also understanding what coverages they’re like defenses are in, like what tells there are — who’s supposed to be guarding or covering [specific] areas and zones, like all of those kind of things. I think he even understands some D-line plays in fronts and stuff.” Impressive stuff. Now Egbuka just needs to get his sprained foot right before opening day, preferably 100 percent.