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The lost more than just a game on Thursday night. They also lost one of their best defensive players for the year. Head coach Bruce Brian Dozier Jersey Arians confirmed on Friday that defensive tackle -- who was carted off the field late in the fourth quarter -- that will end his season.Vea, the No. 12 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft, was off to a fantastic start to the Addison Reed Jersey 2020 season, with two sacks, three tackles for lo s, and three quarterback hits from his position along the interior defensive line. As we wrote in our preview of the Thursday night game, Vea ranked 14th through four weeks among interior defensive linemen in Weighted Overall Win Rating, an adjusted version of Pro Football Focus' pre sures and run stops per snap which accounts for the Phil Hughes Jersey greater importance of pa s-rushing in comparison to run defense. The strength of Tampa's team so far this season has been the defense, and specifically the front, led by Vea, , , and . Losing Vea at nose tackle will have a deleterious effect on the team's run defense, which has been fantastic since the start of last season. He's likely to be replaced at least in part by and/or , but it's also po sible that Tony Oliva Jersey the sixth-round pick could get on the field for some snaps, that Suh could slide over to the nose on occasion, and that the Bucs could use more four-man fronts than they have so far. No matter how they adjust, it's going to be difficult to replace a player who was performing at an extremely high level through the early part Michael Pineda Jersey of the season.