Speaker 1: Welcome in two Road to the Draft Casey Phillips. Here
Speaker 1: was senior writer and editor Scott Smith, And as always,
Speaker 1: we come to you every week this time of year
Speaker 1: with what all is going on in the Buccaneers world
Speaker 1: that could affect who and when and what they'll draft,
Speaker 1: so free agency may have a thing or two to
Speaker 1: do with it. This is kind of an interesting time
Speaker 1: of year for this. Of course, there's always around now
Speaker 1: there's still some moves that could be made, but at
Speaker 1: the time of us filming, we have kind of two
Speaker 1: main things that have happened that we felt like would
Speaker 1: be really good to talk about. And the first one
Speaker 1: is the signing of Jamal Deane and what that means
Speaker 1: and doesn't mean the Bucks are less likely to draft
Speaker 1: a corner or dB of any kind. Yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about last week about not only our own mock drafts
Speaker 1: on Buccaneers dot Com, but a lot of the mock
Speaker 1: drafts out there have paired the Bucks with a corner
Speaker 1: at pick number nineteen, like a Deontay Banks of Maryland,
Speaker 1: partly because there's a lot of value at that position
Speaker 1: in this year's draft, and partly because, to be honest,
Speaker 1: most people didn't think the Buccaneers were going to be
Speaker 1: able to sing Jamal Dean, but they did, which is fantastic.
Speaker 1: And now they have two still mid twenties signed for
Speaker 1: several years outside corners in Carl Tayton Davis and Jamaldine
Speaker 1: and it's clearly not a need outside corner right now. However,
Speaker 1: if you look at the depth chart, you don't really
Speaker 1: have an obvious candidate to play in the slot. And
Speaker 1: I say that because head coach Tot Bowles has said
Speaker 1: that Antoine Winfield Junior is going to focus on one
Speaker 1: spot this year. Last year, he's playing kind of safe
Speaker 1: hybrid safety and slot corner, and I would suspect that
Speaker 1: means probably safety because they wanted to be a playmaker
Speaker 1: all over the field, so you need a slot corner.
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunting has not been resigned. He could eventually
Speaker 1: be an option if he comes back, but you don't
Speaker 1: really have an obvious candidate there. And that's why I
Speaker 1: say if Alabama's safety Brian Branch makes it to nineteen,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of all over the board on the draft,
Speaker 1: so some people would say he never make it there
Speaker 1: at nineteen, sometimes he does. If he makes it there
Speaker 1: at nineteen. He might be a really intriguing pick for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers because not only do they have three safeties
Speaker 1: on the free agent market right now, but they don't
Speaker 1: really have a slot corner, and Brian Branch can play
Speaker 1: both of those positions. He could end up being your
Speaker 1: nickel if you get him. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: guy that Buccaneers would be very interested in, a playmaker,
Speaker 1: a very heady and intelligent guy, and a guy that
Speaker 1: a lot of people said was really important to that
Speaker 1: great Alabama defense. All right, And then I know last
Speaker 1: week on Rod of the Draft, we talked briefly about
Speaker 1: Donovan Smith's departure what that could mean in terms of
Speaker 1: drafting an offensive lineman or a tackle. But now there's
Speaker 1: been a few more developments on the offensive line front.
Speaker 1: So instead of just tackle kind of the line overall,
Speaker 1: what do you see is what's happened recently in free
Speaker 1: agency and how it's going to affect what the Bucks
Speaker 1: might do in terms of drafting that entire line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still think the Buccaneers could be looking at a
Speaker 1: tackle at pick number nineteen, And we've talked about that
Speaker 1: before because it's been a little while since Donovan get released,
Speaker 1: and we talked in our show earlier today about how
Speaker 1: it's possible you could move Tristan Worse to left tackle.
Speaker 1: If you look at all the mock drafts now, it
Speaker 1: looks as if Paris Johnson junior Ohio State, Peter Scarancy
Speaker 1: of the Great Northwestern University, and Roderick Jones of Georgia
Speaker 1: will probably be gone by nineteen. But there's still a
Speaker 1: number of guys that in the next year that the
Speaker 1: Bucks could have a shot at, like Dewan Jones, like
Speaker 1: Anton Harrison of Oklahoma, and the one that I wanted
Speaker 1: to highlight here is Darnell Wright of Tennessee. He's a
Speaker 1: big guy. He's six five, three hundred thirty three hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three pounds, He's got a great wingspan, he's
Speaker 1: relatively fast for his size, and he has started a lot,
Speaker 1: and he has started at both right tackle and left tackle.
Speaker 1: And the reason that's interesting is because last year he
Speaker 1: started and played very well at right tackle. So if
Speaker 1: you wanted to move Tristan to left he could step
Speaker 1: right in, or if you thought you could play left
Speaker 1: tackle like he did in his junior season, maybe you
Speaker 1: look at him there at least gives you some versatility
Speaker 1: with those two guys. The Buccaneers have some options there
Speaker 1: in the interior line like Luke Getticky if he doesn't
Speaker 1: play tackle, and Robert Hansey and Nick Leverett a couple others.
Speaker 1: But that's still a position the Buccaneers could look at
Speaker 1: at nineteen because probably if they took an interior lineman there,
Speaker 1: they'd probably get the first one off the board at
Speaker 1: that position in the draft. So they could maybe take
Speaker 1: a Cyrus Torrance of Florida, another really big guy six five,
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty, another guy with not only a
Speaker 1: long wingspan but really big hands, and you know, the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers could draft a guy that they could plug right
Speaker 1: in and build up that interior depth and have more
Speaker 1: versatility with guys like Robert Haines and look at a
Speaker 1: key all right, I mean, man, the offensive line is
Speaker 1: yet again a position that's going to be so interesting
Speaker 1: this year. We said it last year and it was interesting,
Speaker 1: and then now it's a movement, a lot of movement,
Speaker 1: a lot of potential new faces or even just same
Speaker 1: face as different positions. It's going to be interesting to
Speaker 1: see in the draft. And this whole offseason that is
Speaker 1: going to do it for us on this edition of
Speaker 1: Road to the Draft. We'll see you next week.