Bucs: Sean Murphy-Bunting suffers gruesome injury against Cowboys

Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting suffered a gruesome arm injury during Thursday’s season-opening game against the Dallas Cowboys.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers reached the end zone first on a touchdown pass from Tom Brady to wide receiver Chris Godwin. Yet, the Dallas Cowboys responded on the very next drive on a fake-screen that saw CeeDee Lamb beat Buccaneers cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting for the tying-touchdown.

In that very play, Murphy-Bunting suffered a gruesome-looking injury to his right elbow and immediately left the game. Warning, the photo in the above link is extremely graphic.

Later in the first quarter, the Buccaneers officially ruled Murphy-Bunting out for the remainder of the game.

Sean Murphy-Bunting ruled out after gruesome elbow injury

The injury certainly did not look good when the replay of the touchdown was shown. Hopefully Murphy-Bunting has a speedy and full recovery.

Murphy-Bunting is entering his third season with the Buccaneers as a second-round draft pick out of Central Michigan. The corner recorded three interceptions in his rookie campaign in 2019, one of which was returned for a touchdown. Then in his sophomore season, he started in 13-of-16 regular season games, and ended the season with a Super Bowl 55 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.

Last season, Murphy-Bunting recorded 70 combined tackles (three for loss), one interception, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.

We will continue to keep you posted on Murphy-Bunting’s diagnosis once official updates are revealed.