Bucs wide receiver Paris Warren is trying to come back from a terrible ankle injury suffered as he scored the winning touchdown in last year's final preseason game.

Last year, Paris Warren was the talk of the Bucs preseason. So impressive was the wide receiver that he may have won a starting job. Certainly Warren would have played a key role in the Bucs offensive scheme.

But in a cruel twist of fate, Warren, scoring the winning touchdown in the final preseason game, collapsed on the field with a grotesque left ankle injury, which pointed his foot the direction feet are not supposed to point.

Now, Warren is hoping he can bounce back from the injury that was so nasty, it left many Bucs veterans shaken. In fact, a number of the Bucs, including linebacker Derrick Brooks, rushed on the field to Warren’s aid.

The gesture touched Warren, as he told the Bradenton Herald’s Roger Mooney:

“It just shows how much respect I have from the other guys”