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TAMPA, Fla.—After a futile attempt to accelerate progress toward a contract extension with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, linebacker Barrett Ruud is back on the practice field.
The fifth-year pro skipped all 14 of the club’s voluntary offseason workouts. But he’s participating in this week’s mandatory minicamp that wraps up the squad’s preparation for the start of training camp on July 31.
He says he was working out on his own at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he played his college ball.
Rudd is scheduled to earn about $1.6 million this fall in the final season of a contract he signed as a rookie in 2005.
He says he hopes to remain in Tampa for a long time, so he’s disappointed his contract talks haven’t progressed.
