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Getty Images The Packers’ selection of Jordan Love in the first round last year was not met with enthusiasm from starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Buccaneers expect a different response from their starting quarterback after they drafted Kyle Trask in the second round Friday. Tom Brady...

Getty Images Eight quarterbacks have been selected so far in the 2021 NFL draft, the most through three rounds since the NFL began the “common draft” era in 1967. Friday night saw three quarterbacks selected, when Kyle Trask went to Tampa Bay at the end of the second round and Kellen Mond went...

Getty Images If there’s a strategic benefit to be gained by linebackers wearing single digit numbers, the newest member of Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady‘s defense will be taking advantage of it. The Buccaneers have announced that linebacker Joe Tryon, the last pick in round one, will wear...

Getty Images It wasn’t Davis Mills. It wasn’t Kellen Mond. The sixth quarterback taken in the 2020 draft is Florida’s Kyle Trask. The Buccaneers took Trask with the last pick in round two. He gives them a player who can develop behind Tom Brady over the next year or two or three. Brady, for...

Getty Images The NFL supplements its on-air draft coverage with an online draft-a-thon. Last night’s session included Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and retired Patriots receiver Julian Edelman, among others. When pressed by Deion Sanders about letting Edelman retire before trying to get him...

Getty Images After winning Super Bowl LV, Tampa Bay had the longest wait for its first-round pick. But in selecting edge rusher Joe Tryon out of Washington, the Buccaneers apparently got just who they wanted. “We had a pretty good sense of who was going to come off and who was going to be...

Getty Images Winning the Super Bowl means picking last in the next NFL Draft. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers put a wrap on the first night of the NFL Draft by selecting Washington pass rusher Joe Tryon with the 32nd overall pick. Tryon opted out of playing the 2020 season for the Huskies and entered...

Getty Images Buccaneers running back Leonard Fournette is the latest player to take advantage of the NFL’s new jersey number rule. The Bucs announced today that Fournette will wear the No. 7 jersey. This season, for the first time, running backs can wear any number from 1 to 49. Previously...

Getty Images The final piece of the Buccaneers band jumped back on board this week. Wide receiver Antonio Brown was the lone free agent left from the core group that helped the team win the Super Bowl in February, but he signed a one-year, $3.1 million deal to return to the team. Shaq Barrett...

Getty Images Antonio Brown is back in the fold. The Buccaneers and Brown agreed to a new contract early this morning. Brown’s agent told NFL Network that it’s a one-year deal with $3.1 million guaranteed and the opportunity to make up to $6.25 million. Tampa Bay has now brought back every...

Getty Images Wednesday’s PFT Live included, as it always does, a draft. Today’s draft, as it usually does at this time of year, looked at a subject related to the draft. With Simms’ mock draft projecting a Justin Fields free fall to No. 32 (the PFT mock has Fields going No. 3), we had an...

Getty Images Winning the Super Bowl is hard. Keeping a Super Bowl winning team together is harder. But the Buccaneers have done it. They’ve re-signed not some or most of their key free agents but, with receiver Antonio Brown agreeing to terms, all of them. From receiver Chris Godwin (franchise...

Getty Images In New England, Tom Brady had sold a generation of Patriots jerseys and other gear. He’s now selling Buccaneers gear to a new generation of fans. The NFL Players Association has announced that Brady finished No. 1 on the union’s top 50 player sales list for the year ending...

Getty Images The Buccaneers re-signed wide receiver Antonio Brown on Wednesday and tweaking the contract of one of his teammates helped make space for Brown under the salary cap. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the team has reworked tight end Cameron Brate‘s deal. They cleared $4.69 million...

Getty Images With the Buccaneers returning all 22 of their Super-Bowl winning starters, this year’s draft is essentially an opportunity to add depth, especially on the defensive line. Although defensive ends William Gholston and Ndamukong Suh are returning this season, they will both be free...

Getty Images NFL teams will be adding first-round picks to their roster this week and some of them will then turn their attention to first-round picks from 2018. Fifth-year contract options for players selected in the first round that year need to be exercised by May 3 and some teams have...

Getty Images Former NFL linebacker Geno Hayes has passes away after a battle with liver disease at age 33, according to WCTV in Tallahassee, Fla. Hayes was moved into hospice care last week as part of an ongoing two-year fight against the disease. He had been hospitalized over 20 times in the...

Getty Images Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht announced earlier this month that the team would pick up the fifth-year option on the contract of defensive tackle Vita Vea. They made if official Monday. Vea was the 12th overall choice in the 2018 draft. He will make $7.638 million under...

Getty Images The 27th anniversary landed on Saturday of the memorable moment between former Colts G.M. Bill Tobin and longtime ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper. Roughly a week before that, the player Kiper believed the Colts should have taken shared with Ryen Russillo a story that, if true, makes...

Getty Images Eleven days ago, the Patriots announced that “many of us” won’t be attending offseason workouts. For the first week of Phase One, however, many of them did. Mike Reiss of ESPN.com reports that a “significant group” of Patriots players showed up for the start of the voluntary...