Buccaneers' Cody Mauch Primed for Great Year on O-Line
Cody Mauch fuels his comeback from injury with a burning desire for a dominant season on Tampa Bay's offensive line.
Cody Mauch never missed a football game dating back to his high school days, but a season-ending torn meniscus in his knee broke that streak. After months of recovering, Mauch is motivated to have a bounce-back season for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . The Buccaneers guard suffered his season-ending knee injury in Week 2's victory over the Houston Texans .
He recalled the moment when he felt his meniscus tear, but thought it was a nagging injury. Mauch toughed the injury out until he saw the doctor the following day, and the extent of his injury shocked him. "I get the MRI, and they call me back in, and they're like, 'Yeah, you tore your meniscus,'" Mauch told the Pewter Report Podcast on Monday.
"And I'm like, 'What? ' Like I mean, it hurt, and it was tough walking the next day, but I'm like, no, no, no way. " Mauch has been a consistent presence at all his football stops.
At Hankinson High School in North Dakota, at North Dakota State and his first two seasons with Tampa Bay. He played 2,374 snaps before his season-ending injury, and it halted his ascension into becoming one of the better guards in the NFL. Mauch struggled in his rookie year in 2023, finishing with a 43.