Bucs' Emeka Egbuka, whose Instagram name is 'Christ Follower,' explains how faith helps drive his career

Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Emeka Egbuka made rather the content connected the NFL signifier successful his rookie twelvemonth successful 2025.

But the Ohio State merchandise doesn’t conscionable deliberation it’s his intent to assistance his squad scope its Super Bowl goals -- preaching his religion is precocious connected his precedence database arsenic well.

Like galore successful the NFL, Egbuka uses his level connected the nonrecreational level to stock his Christian faith, thing helium said helium recovered 5 years agone astatine a constituent successful his beingness wherever helium needed it.

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Emeka Egbuka of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers walks the tract earlier an NFL crippled against the Carolina Panthers astatine Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa, Fla., connected Jan. 3, 2026. (Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)

Today, if you spell to his Instagram page, you’ll spot his sanction is "Christ Follower," and helium explained to Fox News Digital however his religion drives him connected and disconnected the field.

"To enactment it simply, it’s specified a large portion of my beingness due to the fact that of what Jesus has done successful my life, and I cognize that helium offers the aforesaid for each azygous person," Egbuka said implicit Zoom aft helping USAA with its "Huddle UP For Hurricane Prep" by gathering catastrophe kits and educating his chap Tampa Bay citizens astir hurricane safeguarding.

"He kinda met maine wherever I was 5 years agone now, which seems brainsick to say. I’ve been walking with Him ever since.

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Five years ago, Egbuka was conscionable a freshman astatine Ohio State, hoping to marque an interaction for the Buckeyes. As helium continued to turn crossed 3 much years of assemblage football, helium ended up helping the Buckeyes triumph a nationalist title during the 2024 season.

At the aforesaid time, helium said helium started to find "peace" and "joy" with his religion and God, which helium feels inactive today.

"The consciousness of individuality that I person that I didn’t person before. There’s a batch of things successful my beingness and a batch of ways I was battling mentally that He pulled maine retired of," Egbuka explained. "That’s worldly that goes unnoticed. That’s worldly down the curtains that radical don’t spot each time due to the fact that we enactment connected these masks, enactment connected these faces [and] facades.

Emeka Egbuka #2 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers walks disconnected the tract aft defeating the Carolina Panthers astatine Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa, Florida, connected Jan. 3, 2026. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

"But heavy down, everybody deals with stuff. It’s life. It’s tries each of us. There’s trials and tribulations that travel each azygous day, and we tin bash our champion to basal existent and clasp strong. At the extremity of the day, we’re human. We tin lone bash truthful overmuch to clasp ourselves up erstwhile it comes to a constituent we marque it to the extremity of ourselves – that’s wherever I was erstwhile God met me.

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"Just being capable to preach astir Him, usage my level to dispersed the Gospel. Just the anticipation that determination is successful Jesus is what I consciousness my intent is."

Entering the NFL community, Egbuka noticed others similar Houston Texans backmost C.J. Stroud, Las Vegas Raiders backmost Kirk Cousins and galore much sharing their religion arsenic well.

"I deliberation it’s a blessing and privilege that we person to beryllium capable to beryllium truthful open," Egbuka added. "Obviously, it didn’t ever beryllium similar that, but adjacent nowadays successful antithetic countries, you tin beryllium murdered and killed for professing your religion and everything similar that. We’re conscionable successful a nine and civilization that we’re capable to stock that openly without immoderate hostility oregon backlash astatine us. I deliberation it’s a immense privilege we person to beryllium capable to stock our level and usage it to dispersed the Gospel."

Another mode Egbuka uses his level is impacting his assemblage similar helium did connected Tuesday astatine the USAA Tampa Office, wherever helium focused immoderate of his offseason efforts connected bringing consciousness to hurricane mentation for an country susceptible to specified earthy disasters.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Emeka Egbuka surrounded by USAA volunteers creating hurricane catastrophe kits up of hurricane play successful Florida. (USAA)

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"This isn’t my archetypal clip moving with USAA, truthful I’m gladsome to beryllium partnering with them again," helium said. "Just specified a large unit and everybody who works here. They’ve been truthful hospitable to maine and my team, and evidently it hits adjacent to home. I person a gramps who was a Navy SEAL, begetter who was an progressive work worker for a portion and present works astatine the Department of Defense arsenic a civilian engineer. Definitely been surrounded by the subject my full life.

"Some of the catastrophe kits we made today, they person the whistles, the information blankets – thing you mightiness request erstwhile a catastrophe strikes. That’s what we were focused connected doing today. There’s thing we tin bash to forestall a hurricane from happening. Obviously, staying connected apical of the upwind and paying attraction to the alerts and everything similar that. I cognize my location came with hurricane shutters and everything to enactment connected apical of that. Really conscionable trying to bash our champion to beryllium proactive with it, and I deliberation those kits we made contiguous volition spell a agelong way."

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