Is Emeka Egbuka injured? Why Buccaneers' WR isn't playing every snap on MNF

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had multiple injury question marks at wide receiver heading into Monday Night Football.

When the inactive report came out, they got good news: Mike Evans and Emeka Egbuka were both active with their hamstring injuries.

Except once the game started, something odd was happening: Egbuka wasn't on the field.

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Is Emeka Egbuka injured?

Well, yes and no on the Egbuka injury question.

He hurt his hamstring in Week 6 and was truly questionable for this Week 7 Monday night game.

Egbuka didn't practice on Thursday or Friday, then was a limited participant on Saturday.

He was viewed as a game-time decision, and his pregame workout went well, so he suited up for the game.

Egbuka was missing on a bunch of early-down snaps in the early going.

He did get into the game on third down on the Buccaneers' second drive, so he wasn't totally out of the game plan.

But it's looking a bit like Egbuka might not get as much action as he usually does as the Buccaneers monitor his hamstring injury.