Buccaneers center A.Q. Shipley is done for the year after injuring his neck. It’s especially serious and it appears to be a career-ender, according to head coach Bruce Arians. The Bucs placed Shipley on IR Friday.
“I feel bad because I love A.Q,” Arians told SiriusXM. “He’s one of my favorite players of all time and was playing good for us. But I think it was a previous injury that might have just got aggravated in his neck.”
Shipley entered the league as a seventh-round pick of the Steelers in 2009, but he didn’t make his regular-season debut until 2012 when he hooked on with the Colts. After that, he spent a year with the Ravens and returned to Indy before joining the Cardinals in 2015.
Shipley’s best seasons came under Arians, with Pro Football Focus grading him as one of the game’s top centers during the Cards’ 13-3 season in 2015. Last year, PFF assigned him just the 29th overall grade among snappers, a sign that his 2018 ACL tear had slowed him down. Still, Arians was happy to bring him to the Bucs, where Ali Marpet‘s injury recently opened a starting spot for him.
After 110 career games played, Arians sees the unfortunate injury as the start of Shipley’s coaching career.
This sucks
AKA I don’t won’t to play with a coach who is coaching like it was 2000 and a QB who looks like Phillip Rivers twin on any pass over 3 yards. A wounded duck.
Probably a neck injury that ended his career, also he’s played for the coach at his last 2 teams, so your message is dumb
Don’t forget 2012 with the Colts, just to really hammer in how stupid “Yep it is” little comment was. Go back to bed buddy, it’s passed your bedtime.
Really, really sad to hear. Came to the Bucs to ring chase and be with a coach he loves. Leaves due to injury. So sad.