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Winston shines, Bucs beat 49ers 27-9 to end 4-game skid

San Francisco played without linebacker Reuben Foster, whom the 49ers plan to release after the second-year pro was arrested at the team hotel in Tampa and charged with one count of domestic violence

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jameis Winston threw for 312 yards and two touchdowns to help the Tampa Bay Buccaneers snap a four-game losing streak with a 27-9 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

Winston, benched last month after turning the ball over 11 times in 14 quarters, completed 29 of 38 passes without an interception.

The fourth-year pro, who's shared the starting job with Ryan Fitzpatrick, tossed scoring passes of 6 yards to Cameron Brate and 28 yards to Adam Humphries on a play he extended by scrambling to his right before throwing back toward the center of the field.

Tampa Bay (4-7), meanwhile, had four sacks and forced a turnover on defense for the first time in eight games, with Ryan Smith and Isaiah Johnson coming up with the team's first interceptions since a loss to Pittsburgh on Sept. 24.

Matt Breida rushed for 106 yards for the 49ers (2-9). Nick Mullens threw a 13-yard TD pass to Dante Pettis, but couldn't get the ball in the end zone in the second and finished 18 of 32 for 221 yards and two interceptions.

San Francisco played without linebacker Reuben Foster, whom the 49ers plan to release after the second-year pro was arrested at the team hotel in Tampa and charged with one count of domestic violence.

Foster was jailed late Saturday night and released on $2,000 bond Sunday. The 2017 first-round draft pick out of Alabama will be placed on waivers officially on Monday.

Winston, who sat out the first three games of the season while serving a suspension for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy, made his first start in a month. He was benched after throwing four interceptions in a loss at Cincinnati on Oct. 28, however Fitzpatrick was not much better protecting the ball in subsequent losses to Carolina, Washington and the New York Giants.

INJURIES

49ers: Played without injured WRs Pierre Garcon and Marquise Goodwin and RB Alfred Morris. ... S Jimmie Ward left the game in the first quarter with a forearm injury and did not return. S D.J. Reed (heel) left the game in the second half.

Buccaneers: LB Lavonte David (knee) and S Justin Evans (toe) remained sidelined for the second straight week. ... T Demar Dotson limped off with a knee/hamstring problem late in the first half and did not return. ... CB Carlton Davis II (knee) was shaken up in the third quarter and sat out the remainder of the game. ... DE Jason Pierre-Paul (knee) left briefly before returning in the fourth quarter.

UP NEXT

49ers: at Seattle, next Sunday

Buccaneers: Home vs. Carolina, next Sunday

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