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Getty Images At some point after the season, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady underwent left knee surgery. He revealed on The Late Late Show with James Corden in early March that he was rehabbing from the surgery, a procedure that was not unexpected. So Brady is at least six weeks into his...

Getty Images In December, former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch told Conan O’Brien he would unretire for a contender and that teams had shown interest. Lynch shared more details during a recent interview with ESPN. “I was specifically speaking to Tom Brady and the Bucs. That’s who I was...

Getty Images Running back Giovani Bernard has been a quality receiving threat out of the backfield since he entered the league in 2012, making 342 receptions for 2,867 yards and 11 touchdowns throughout his career. Even as the Bengals went 4-11-1 last season, Bernard tied for third on the club...

Getty Images The Buccaneers haven’t lost many players. They began the offseason with 25 free agents and have re-signed 13. Only four have ended up elsewhere, with eight remaining unsigned. One of those four became a Texan on Wednesday. Former Bucs tight end Antony Auclair has signed with...

Getty Images The NFL released more details Wednesday about plans for offseason workouts. It still isn’t enough to satisfy the NFLPA. Union leaders still are advising players to skip in-person offseason workouts. A day after NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith and president JC Tretter...

Getty Images The NFL Players Association wants the rank and file to choose to not show up for offseason workouts. The NFL apparently wants to see them try. The league, we’re told, sees this as a potential win, a reminder that collective action for this specific unionized work force doesn’t...

Getty Images Add another team to the list. The Lions players announced in a statement released by the NFLPA on Wednesday morning that they will not participate in voluntary in-person offseason workouts at the team facility. The Broncos, Seahawks, and Buccaneers players made similar...

Getty Images Like their counterparts on the Broncos, Seahawks, Buccaneers, and Lions, the Patriots players released a statement regarding participation in voluntary offseason workouts. But unlike the rest of the teams, New England’s statement was not a unilateral declaration. The Patriots’...

Getty Images Another member of the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl champions has signed on for another year in Tampa. According to multiple reports, the Bucs have re-signed defensive tackle Steve McLendon. It’s a one-year deal for McLendon, who came to the team in a trade with the Jets during the...

Getty Images The NFL Players Association wants players to chose not to attend voluntary offseason workouts. Whether and to what extent this strategy works will hinge in large part on the agents who represent NFL players. Agents have a duty to each player to represent his best interests. And...

Getty Images Count free agent running back LeSean McCoy as one player who does not think Julian Edelman is heading to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Asked by Yahoo Sports if Edelman is a Hall of Famer, McCoy scoffed. “Hall of Famer? No, come on, man,” McCoy said. McCoy said Edelman’s strong...

Getty Images During the 2020 season, Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians bristled at the idea that his players dropped too many passes. On Monday, his team signed a running back who is less likely to drop passes. As explained by Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com, the Buccaneers added Gio Bernard in...

Getty Images We’re not the only ones not buying the Julian Edelman retirement. Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski estimated for TMZ.com on Monday night the chances that Edelman will land in Tampa Bay, despite his retirement from the NFL. “69 percent chance,” Gronkowski said when asked if...

Getty Images Cornerback Ross Cockrell is returning to the Buccaneers. Cockrell has signed a two-year deal with the team, Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com reports. Cockrell, 29, spent last season in Tampa, playing 12 games with two starts. He saw action on 237 defensive snaps and 156 on special...

Getty Images A year ago, Tom Brady and many of his teammates spurned the clear recommendations of the NFLPA. They continued to have offseason workouts at a local high school, even after the union advised players to stop doing so until training camp due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the...

Getty Images In the aftermath of Super Bowl LIII, the talk began of receiver Julian Edelman as a candidate for Canton. Our take at the time was that he still has more work to do to get there. Two years later, he added a 1,117-yard season in 2019 (the third of his career), a three-catch...

Getty Images Gerald McCoy wants to keep playing, but to keep playing, the defensive tackle has to find a team to want him. McCoy’s agent, Ben Dogra, told Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times that a few teams are keeping a close eye on McCoy’s rehab. Dogra doesn’t expect McCoy to get an offer...

Getty Images Before running back Giovani Bernard reached a deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was also pursued by the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks, according to Jenna Laine of ESPN.com. Bernard was released by the Cincinnati Bengals last week after eight seasons with the team...

Getty Images Giovani Bernard played eight seasons in Cincinnati and never won a playoff game. Now he’ll go to the reigning Super Bowl champions. Bernard is signing a one-year deal with the Buccaneers, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports. According to the report, Bernard was recruited by both...

Getty Images Last year, the NFL acknowledged that the one-helmet rule could change in 2021. It still could. Per a league spokesperson, there has been no resolution yet regarding the possibility that teams could be permitted to allow players to use more than one helmet during the course of a...