Building a Super Bowl Champion Through the Draft? By TarkentonToJones on May 11, 2021, 6:26pm EDT +
The Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers are favored once again to at least get to the Super Bowl if not win it again. How did they do it? Obviously signing Brady and Gronk the previous off-season made a huge difference, and to a lesser extent AB. But you need 53 guys, so the rest have to come from somewhere. Quietly, the Bucs must have been building a Super Bowl supporting cast under the radar over the years, right?
I used the Pro Football Reference Approximate Value (AV) metric to judge the value of each player in Tampa Bay s draft classes going back to 2014, the year they drafted Mike Evans, arguably the oldest important draftee on their team. I use the threshold average AV = 5.0 or greater per year to identify useful players that contribute to a team s success. Here are the players who exceed that threshold (average AV number in parentheses) and were stil
Robert Hainsey Won Bucs Over with Impressive Versatility
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01 May 2021, 19:26 GMT+10
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Notre Dame s Robert Hainsey started at right tackle throughout his college career but took to several different positions without difficulty at the Senior Bowl and greatly improved his stock on the Bucs draft board Scott Smith
Robert Hainsey started at right tackle for three seasons at Notre Dame and was part of an offensive line that saw three of its members drafted in the first two days of the 2021 NFL Draft. Hainsey never spent any time at a different spot on the line during that span, not even practice. But when he went to the Senior Bowl in January the assembled NFL coaches wanted him to try his hand at the three interior line spots and he didn t hesitate to comply.
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The 2021 NFL Draft has arrived and, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it will be the eighth one run by General Manager Jason Licht, who arrived in 2014. In a way, though, it will be a little bit of a new experience for Licht since the Buccaneers will be less driven by positional need than in any of the last seven years. The Bucs can adhere to the best-player-available approach more closely than ever before and target just about any position on their board. Frankly, it sounds like
fun.
Said Licht: It is a really good feeling this year that, literally, just about any player at any position we could take.
Final Tampa Bay Buccaneers Seven Round Mock Draft
Our final, seven-round mock draft Tampa Bay Buccaneers mock draft ahead of the 2021 NFL Draft is here!
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Apr 29, 2021
With all 22 starters from Super Bowl LV returning for another run at a championship in 2021, it is extremely difficult trying to predict who the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will select in this weekend s NFL Draft.
But we re going to try to do it anyway, one final time before the selection ceremony begins on Thursday at 8 P.M. ET. For credibility purposes, this mock draft was created in coordination with the full two-round mock draft that I shared via
Three Positions Tampa Bay Buccaneers Must Address in NFL Draft
The NFL Draft is set to begin in just over 24 hours. Here are three positions the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will need to address before it s over.
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Apr 28, 2021
Just over 24 hours prior to the 2021 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers removed the No. 3 wide receiver position from its short-list of team needs.
The fact that WR No. 3 was on the short-list of needs tells you everything you need to know about the Buccaneers position entering the draft. The team returns all 22 of its starters from the 2020 Super Bowl run, meaning there are no pressing needs at any starting position. This draft can be best utilized by securing depth pieces and addressing the future of the roster.