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Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints

Scheduled · Kickoff to be confirmed

2026 Regular season · Week 18 · Caesars Superdome

Latest game updateUpdated
Tampa Bay Buccaneers—Away
New Orleans Saints—Home

Game details

Location
New Orleans

Matchup preview

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1–4 · Road 1–1 · Streak W1 · Power Index No. 23
New Orleans Saints 1–3 · Home 0–2 · Streak L2 · Power Index No. 20
2026 regular season, per game
MetricTBNO
Points per game (TB 5 games, NO 4 games)20.023rd26.310th
Points allowed per game (TB 5 games, NO 4 games)22.415th32.032nd
Total yards per game (TB 4 games, NO 4 games)278.328th367.09th
Passing yards per game (TB 4 games, NO 4 games)190.826th300.83rd
Rushing yards per game (TB 4 games, NO 4 games)106.017th88.527th
Turnovers per game (TB 4 games, NO 4 games)2.330th2.026th
Sacks allowed per game (TB 4 games, NO 4 games)4.032nd3.025th
Penalty yards per game (TB 4 games, NO 4 games)49.811th43.34th

Highlighted values are the better side of each line; small figures are the league rank among clubs with games (1st = best). Points come from final scores; yardage, turnovers, sacks and penalties from team statistics.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: recent results

  1. W 24–16 @ DAL Week 5
  2. L 14–17 vs GB Week 4
  3. L 16–23 vs MIN Week 3
  4. L 19–23 vs CLE Week 2
  5. L 27–33 @ CIN Week 1

New Orleans Saints: recent results

  1. L 24–45 vs ATL Week 4
  2. L 27–35 vs LV Week 3
  3. W 24–17 @ BAL Week 2
  4. L 30–31 (OT) @ DET Week 1

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: season leaders

Passing
Baker Mayfield 615 yds
Rushing
Bucky Irving 406 yds
Receiving
Emeka Egbuka 192 yds
Sacks
David Walker 2.0

New Orleans Saints: season leaders

Passing
Tyler Shough 1,203 yds
Rushing
Travis Etienne 128 yds
Receiving
Chris Olave 491 yds
Sacks
Chase Young 3.5

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: injury report

  • Out Antoine Winfield Jr. FS
  • Out Baker Mayfield QB
  • Out Benjamin Morrison RCB
  • Out Billy Schrauth LG
  • Out DeMonte Capehart RDE
  • Out Luke Haggard RG
  • Out SirVocea Dennis RILB

4 on reserve lists. Latest entry Oct 8. Full report

New Orleans Saints: injury report

  • Out Anfernee Jennings WLB
  • Out Jeremiah Wright RG
  • Out Kaden Elliss LILB
  • Out Mason Tipton
  • Out Nick Saldiveri LG
  • Questionable Alvin Kamara RB
  • Questionable Barion Brown
  • Questionable Christen Miller NT

5 more listed.

10 on reserve lists. Latest entry Oct 10. Full report

Head-to-head since 1999

TB 23 · NO 28 in 51 meetings (regular season and playoffs).

  1. 2025 · Week 14 NO 24, TB 20
  2. 2025 · Week 8 TB 23, NO 3
  3. 2024 · Week 18 NO 19, TB 27
  4. 2024 · Week 6 TB 51, NO 27
  5. 2023 · Week 17 NO 23, TB 13

Full series history

From WHYNFL's results archive, which begins in 1999.

Game notes

Win probability

TB 43.6% · NO 56.0%

Matchup quality 38.3 / 100

Model estimate, updated Sep 28, 2026. Not a WHYNFL prediction.

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