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Getty Images Tuesday’s PFT Live featured a three-man draft for one of the top individual awards eventually to be named after the NFL season ends. Defensive player of the year. Won in 2019 by Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore, who will win it this time around? Peter King, Chris Simms, and I...

Getty Images The Saints and running back Alvin Kamara continue to negotiate a new contract. Which means that they continue to not get a new contract done. Which means that the clock continues to tick toward Week One. Wednesday becomes an important day in the tick-ticking to Tampa Bay’s visit...

Getty Images Longtime cornerback Aqib Talib announced his retirement Wednesday morning, despite what he said was an attractive job offer. The 34-year-old Talib went on IR for the Rams last October, and was then traded to the Dolphins to not play there. But he said that he got a call from “my...

Getty Images Running back Leonard Fournette hasn’t been a member of the Buccaneers for long, but that won’t keep him from contributing to the team’s offense in the first game of the regular season. That was the word from Bucs head coach Bruce Arians on Tuesday. Arians said, via multiple...

Getty Images Getting released three years after going fourth overall in the draft generally isn’t seen as a good thing, but Leonard Fournette doesn’t seem to be looking at his departure from Jacksonville that way. Fournette was released by the Jaguars last week and didn’t have to wait long...

Getty Images If Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady starts all 16 games this season, he’ll break a little-discussed but quite impressive NFL record. Brady has started 283 games in his career, putting him 15 games from tying and 16 games from breaking Brett Favre’s all-time NFL record of 298 games...

Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians said last week that the team would “play it by ear” when it comes to tight end Rob Gronkowski‘s snaps in the season opener against the Saints, but the club has settled on one thing about his spot in the offense. Gronkowski is listed as a starter...

Getty Images Last year, Teddy Bridgewater served as the primary backup to Saints starting quarterback Drew Brees. This year, Taysom Hill has been installed as No. 2 on the team’s depth chart. Hill has leapfrogged Jameis Winston, the first overall pick in the 2015 draft. Winston signed with the...

Getty Images Running back Dare Ogunbowale was one of the Buccaneers’ cuts as they dropped to 53 players on Saturday and didn’t get claimed on waivers, but he may not be out of work long. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Ogunbowale will visit the Raiders. The Raiders traded Lynn Bowden...

Getty Images Quarterback Josh Rosen won’t be leaving Florida. Rosen went unclaimed on waivers after being dropped by the Dolphins, but NFL Media reports that he will be signing onto the Buccaneers practice squad. Per the report, Rosen had offers to join active rosters but took what he felt was...

Getty Images Buccaneers quarterback Josh Rosen had options. Those options included opportunities to join a team’s active roster. So why did he pick the Tampa Bay practice squad? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Rosen saw the Buccaneers as giving Rosen a shot a stability — after...

Getty Images The Titans cut kicker Greg Joseph last week. He soon will have a new home on the Buccaneers’ practice squad. Joesph’s agent, Brett Tessler, tweeted the news Sunday. “Multiple teams offered Greg Joseph p-squad opportunities and he’s currently in the testing protocol with the Tampa...

Getty Images We’ve known for a short while that running back Leonard Fournette will be a member of the Buccaneers, but the signing did not become official until Sunday. The Buccaneers announced Fournette’s signing and he had some company on the team’s transaction report. They also re-signed...

Getty Images The Buccaneers have done plenty of shopping this year. They now have some cap space that will allow them to do more, if they want. According to PewterReport.com, receiver Mike Evans has restructured his deal to create $9.625 million in cap space. Evans was due to earn a base...

Getty Images The Buccaneers announced 26 roster moves Saturday, getting their active roster to the regular-season limit of 53 players. The moves included the waiver of kicker Matt Gay, a 2019, fifth-round choice who was beaten out by veteran Ryan Succop. The only vested veteran the team...

Getty Images Buccaneers running back LeSean McCoy hasn’t played with Tom Brady yet, but he says Brady is already the best quarterback he’s played with. McCoy was asked to name the best quarterback he has played with and said it’s Brady, the greatest of all time, followed by Patrick Mahomes...

Getty Images The Buccaneers announced earlier this week they’d go without fans for their first two home games. If it was up to the head of their state government, they’d have thrown the doors open. Via Steve Contorno of the Tampa Bay Times, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed disappointment...

Getty Images A year after spending a fifth-round draft pick on him, the Buccaneers are saying goodbye to kicker Matt Gay. Gay is being waived and Ryan Succop will be the Buccaneers’ kicker in Week One, NFL Network reports. The decision to draft Gay was a bad one, and it’s compounded by the...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers signed Leonard Fournette, we knew a running back was going to be on the way out. Now we know who that running back is: Dare Ogunbowale. Ogunbowale was a solid player in Tampa last season, catching 35 passes and serving as a special teams captain. But the Bucs...

Getty Images Dare Ogunbowale isn’t the only running back being dropped from the Buccaneers roster in the wake of Leonard Fournette‘s arrival. Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com reports that the team is also waiving Raymond Calais. Calais joined the Buccaneers as a seventh-round pick in April and...