Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving (toe) has emerged as one of the league's best rookies through eight games. His elite short-area quickness and ability to duck, dive, and dodge away from opposing defenders has made him very valuable to his team's offense,

The Bucs also had listed rookie safety Tykee Smith as questionable, but he cleared concussion protocol Saturday. Smith missed last week's game with his head injury. The team's oth

Irving (toe) is listed as active Monday at Kansas City, Scott Smith of the Buccaneers' official site reports. When Irving showed up on the Buccaneers' Week 9 injury report Thursday, coach Todd Bowles told Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times that the running back's toe injury was something the team will need to manage for the rest of the season.