The Bucs suffered their most lopsided defeat of the season on Sunday, falling 35-7 to the 49ers. In a flat-out embarrassing display of football, there weren’t too many things to be impressed by. Play calling and execution were again major reasons the Bucs lost, but penalties played a significant part in wiping out big plays on both sides of the ball.

To add injury to insult, several Bucs players suffered injuries that would see them ruled out for parts of the game, including Jamel Dean, Vita Vea and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka. Nonetheless, here are the Bucs’ most impressive players from Sunday’s loss:

Anthony Nelson

Nelson was one of the lone bright spots in Tampa Bay’s awful loss to the ‘Niners. He came up with several big stops in the run game to go with a forced fumble. He also had an interception that was negated by a weak defensive holding call on Carlton Davis.

Deven Thompkins

Bucs WR Deven Thompkins – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

Thompkins was elevated from the practice squad and the rookie receiver took over primary return duties in place of the waived Jaelon Darden. In his NFL regular season debut, he totaled 21 yards on two punts and averaged 24 yards per kick return on five kicks. That included a 54-yarder to open the second half.

Russell Gage

Gage showed incredible concentration to catch the lone score of the game for the Bucs. His touchdown grab came of a dropped pass by Chris Godwin that he caught inches from the ground and fell backwards into the end zone.