Lavonte David: No timeline to decide to play in 2025

Buccaneers linebacker Lavonte David’s 2024 season ended with the Commanders’ game-winning field goal Sunday night, and he’s not ready to say whether there will be a 2025 season yet.

David played on a one-year contract and remained productive in his 13th NFL season. David had 122 tackles, 5.5 sacks, an interception, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery while starting every regular-season game and had eight tackles and a sack against Washington, but he said Monday he’s not ready to make any calls about returns for another year.

“No, not really,” David said throughly Pewter Report. “I’ll just take this right now, go home. Regroup a littlesee where my head is then and go from there. . . . There is no exact timeline. All I’m going to do is go home and take my mind off football. And if I come back, I will have a decision by then.”

Nothing in David’s play indicated that the Bucs would be in a rush to move on without him, but David will need to feel the same motivation to prepare and play another year before any new deal talks begin.