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Getty Images The Buccaneers have agreed to terms with first-round draft choice Tristan Wirfs. The Iowa offensive lineman will receive a fully guaranteed, four-year, $16.23 million deal, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. The Bucs have agreed to terms with all seven choices, Rick Stroud of the...

Getty Images The Buccaneers are bringing a former NFL quarterback in to build some coaching experience. According to Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com, the Bucs are bringing the well-traveled Thad Lewis to camp as part of the Bill Walsh coaching fellow program. Lewis, 32, started a game for the...

Getty Images When Saints cornerback Janoris Jenkins was asked this month about the Buccaneers adding Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski, he said that any improvement is on paper at this point and that the Bucs “gotta produce on the field.” There was more discussion of how good the Bucs offense looks...

Getty Images The Buccaneers have agreed to terms with running back Raymond Calais, Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports. He is the third of seven draft choices to agree to terms, following fifth-round receiver Tyler Johnson and sixth-round defensive tackle Khalil Davis. The Bucs made...

Getty Images Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Florida’s going to forge ahead with sports, even if the medical advice points in the other direction. According to Buddy Collins of the Orlando Sentinel, the Florida High School Athletic Association voted to proceed with the current...

Getty Images There was word earlier this year that defensive lineman Michael Bennett wanted to play another NFL season, but he never signed with a team and says he won’t be doing so at some point later this year either. Bennett announced his retirement in an Instagram post on Tuesday morning...

Getty Images With rookies heading to team facilities for the first time later this week, a wave of rookie deals are coming soon. The Bucs apparently finished a pair of deals Monday, their first two of this year’s seven-man draft class. Per Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com, the Bucs have agreed...

With NFL owners meeting today to finalize plans for training camps, another team has pushed back its reporting dates for rookies. The Buccaneers just announced that rookies will arrive on Thursday, instead of tomorrow’s initially scheduled slot. No reason was given for the pushback. The team...

Getty Images Quarterback Tom Brady‘s arrival in Tampa made a lot of waves inside and outside of the organization. One of the internal reactions came from running back Thomas Jones. Jones has seen enough of the Patriots in recent years to know that Brady’s presence should mean more passes...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski had a lot of fun during his year away from the NFL and he doesn’t expect the good times to come screeching to a halt now that he’s decided to return to action with the Buccaneers. Gronkowski discussed his return during an appearance on CBS Sports Radio and said that...

Getty Images Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski is predicting a fun season in Tampa and his arrival along with Tom Brady‘s decision to sign with the Bucs has a lot of others thinking that the team can have a successful 2020 season. One defensive starter from one of the team’s divisional...

The Buccaneers have a new quarterback, and quarterback Tom Brady has a new team. Both will have to adjust. Buccaneers receiver Scotty Miller says that the adjustments have been, to date, mutual. “I think it’s been a little bit of both, honestly,” Miller told JoeBucsFan.com regarding the extent...

Getty Images Buccaneers pass rusher Shaq Barrett signed the franchise tag Wednesday, the team announced. Barrett did not get the long-term extension he wanted but still hopes to remain in Tampa long term. That’s what he said Tuesday and his agent repeated Wednesday after the deadline for a...

Getty Images David Lewis, a linebacker who played for the Buccaneers, Chargers and Rams and made the Pro Bowl in 1980, has died at the age of 65. An All-Pac-10 linebacker at USC, Lewis was chosen by the Buccaneers with the first pick in the second round of the 1977 NFL draft. Although the Bucs...

Getty Images Training camps are scheduled to open in two weeks, but there’s plenty of uncertainty about the ability to safely do so. Specifically, the NFLPA has concerns about opening in places where COVID-19 infection rates are highest. Via to Mark Maske of the Washington Post, a union...

Getty Images Chris Jones got a long-term deal from the Chiefs. Shaq Barrett and the Buccaneers would love to reach an agreement, too. But Barrett doesn’t expect a new deal from the Bucs before Wednesday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline. “I would love to get a deal done,” the pass rusher said Tuesday on...

Getty Images It’s unclear when or if there will be fans in Raymond James Stadium this fall. There will at least be a pile of their tax dollars. According to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times, Raymond James Stadium is getting $10.4 million in federal money under under the Coronavirus Aid...

Getty Images As the NFL and the NFL Players Association haggle over every detail of football in a pandemic, one key question will be whether players can and will do everything they need to do — and not do everything they shouldn’t do — from August through December (or, in the case of 12...

Getty Images Shaquil Barrett will play for the Buccaneers this year, but how much he’ll get paid remains to be seen. Barrett informed the Buccaneers today that he will accept the franchise tender the team placed on him, agent Drew Rosenhaus tells PFT. That means Barrett is willing to play this...

Getty Images Bud Dupree signed his franchise tender on April 23, but he has filed a grievance disputing what his position is, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. The Steelers want to pay Dupree as a linebacker rather than as a defensive end. The franchise tag for linebackers is $15.828 million...