Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Preview 25-26

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  • By Patrick Leary

    Last Updated on June 18, 2025 11:06 am by Jon Mosales | Published: June 18, 2025

     

    Sometimes you just have to marvel at a team like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This franchise has won two Super Bowls in the 21st Century despite the fact that Jameis Winston holds the franchise records for passing yards and touchdowns. After a brief apex with late career Tom Brady, they fought off regression with a revamped attack led by a revitalized mid-career Baker Mayfield, who appears poised to keep the franchise sailing above the fray in the crappy NFC South. With Mayfield, stalwart veteran WRs Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, breakout second-year RB Bucky Irving, and a vibrant, young supporting cast, this is one of the deepest fantasy offenses in the league.

    Player most likely to beat ADP: QB Baker Mayfield (ADP 75, QB7)

    Mayfield was the QB10 in 2023 and the QB4 in 2024, and his current ADP splits the difference. He gets Godwin back from injury and adds one of the best rookie WRs in Emeka Egbuka from Ohio State. Is there anyone who has better weapons to throw to in the entire league than Mayfield? He has Evans, Godwin, Egbuka and Jalen McMillan at WR, Irving and able pass-catcher Rachaad White at RB, and the underrated Cade Otton at TE. He isn’t necessarily a prolific runner, but he scores significantly more fantasy points with his legs than guys like Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert, and he trailed only Burrow in passing yards and touchdowns in 2024. He has everything in place to lead the NFL in passing fantasy points in 2025.

    Player most likely to fade based on ADP: RB Bucky Irving (ADP 21, RB9)

    Irving was the breakout surprise of the 2024 rookie class, as the rare exception to the rule about Day 3 running backs. He was the RB6 after taking usurping White midseason, and was the late-round darling of 2024 fantasy. I’m willing to get burned by him this year, as I’m categorically not drafting him in the second round. He feels a tier down from the two round two RBs who go in front of him (De’Von Achane and Jonathan Taylor) and I prefer Josh Jacobs to him straight up. Irving displayed an insane amount of juice during his rookie sun run, but he’s not indispensable enough in this stacked offense for me to draft him as my RB1 in the mid-to-late second round.


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    June 18, 2025, 11:06 am