Trey Palmer Is On Notice
April 26th, 2025
Bucs’ seventh-round pick WR Tez Johnson.
The main reason the Bucs drafted Trey Palmer was his blazing speed.
For whatever reason, he and Baker Mayfield have never had good timing on deep balls. Joe doesn’t know if that’s on Mayfield or Palmer. But one guy is the franchise quarterback and the other is a 2023 sixth-round pick.
Guess who the Bucs are going to side with?
Joe brings this all up after the pick of Oregon wide receiver Tez Johnson in Round 7 today. While Palmer has height on Johnson, the Ducks speedster has decent if not good speed, but he sure makes guys miss and gets open. Joe suspects the Bucs are either trying to light a fire under Palmer or replace him.
Johnson is a YAC monster and also returns punts. Get him in space and he stops and starts as if someone with a joystick is controlling him from a luxury suite. He’s got the fifth-most catches in Oregon history. Given some of the talent the Ducks have had, that’s not too shabby.
The seventh round is a good round to take a flier on talented guys. This is a good get. In the seventh round, what do the Bucs have to lose?
Dynasty Rookie Spotlight ⬇️
Tez Johnson (WR) – Oregon
Weighing in at 5'9" and 156 pounds at the Senior Bowl, Johnson is one of the lightest WR prospects ever. Despite his size concerns, Johnson has no trouble separating from defenders, posting a 91.8% separation rate since… pic.twitter.com/3cQFelQOJs
— Cornerstone Fantasy (@90stoneFantasy) February 19, 2025
April 26th, 2025 at 6:43 pm
who announced this pick?
April 26th, 2025 at 6:45 pm
If he doesn’t literally get smashed due to his small size, he’s like a mini Egbuka. Lol, bring on Spread 2.0—just saying.
Josh Grizz’s **Spread 2.0** could adapt flag football principles to the NFL, focusing on speed, space, and constant motion. With interchangeable personnel and a variety of formations, the offense should create mismatches and force defensive indecision. The system could incorporate RPOs, jet motion, and vertical attacks to stretch the field both horizontally and vertically, while also leveraging power runs and quick passes. Defenses could struggle with hesitation, as they wouldn’t be able to predict whether a play is a run or a pass. Spread 2.0 shouldn’t just be a playbook—it could be a philosophy that might revolutionize NFL offenses.
In fact, many NFL teams already run early versions of Spread 2.0 principles. Teams like the **Chiefs, Rams, 49ers, Dolphins, and Ravens** all incorporate aspects of spread concepts in their offenses, utilizing speed, motion, and versatile personnel. The difference with Spread 2.0 would be its focus on blending these principles with a **Mike Shanahan-style zone power** running game. This combination of space, power runs, and speed-focused passing could form a more complete offensive system. By using zone concepts for power runs, the offense would gain the ability to both stretch the defense horizontally and create misdirections for defenders, making it even harder to predict the next move.
Spread 2.0 could take these existing elements and push them to a new level, focusing even more on creating chaos for defenses with dynamic, unpredictable movements and forcing them into difficult decision-making situations as *Every play looks exactly rhe same*. The combination of space and power could become a perfect storm for offensive success.
April 26th, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Referred himself to a “Squirrel ” love that.
April 26th, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Maybe his separation rate is so high because he’s so small DBs can’t find him.
April 26th, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Tez is an upgrade from Sterling Shepard even as a rookie. Great hands and zero bonehead plays. I am so over Shepard. Licht just drafted a gem in the 7th round
April 26th, 2025 at 6:55 pm
Yeah put Shepard, Johnson, Jarrett on notice with him. Gonna be a tight battle for WR 5 & 6.
April 26th, 2025 at 6:55 pm
I agree that Shepard could be odd man out….but for Baker…
But there will be little room for UDFA or others
this should make Bucky very happy…
April 26th, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Cant wait to pictures of Tez next to Evans lol
April 26th, 2025 at 6:59 pm
Wow this guy was very productive and gets elite separation. Great in open space.
April 26th, 2025 at 7:01 pm
According to Google’s AI, the Oregon Ducks (thanks largely to Nike) have 20 different football uniform combinations. Johnson, nor any other Duck, won’t be treated to that sort of luxury in the NFL.
Got a tour of the Nike “Campus” two months ago. They have far more buildings than most colleges, thanks to all who are willing to pay $200 for a pair of sneakers that cost $8 to make.
At least they give some of it back.
April 26th, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Oregon Buc, Tez may be an upgrade from Shepard. We will have about 4 receivers competing for those WR 5 and 6 slots. Shepard made some big plays for us last year. He’s not afraid of the competition. Hope Tez is able to help the team, he’d be the first 155 pounder I’ve ever seen play so it ought to be fun to watch.
April 26th, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Moose and Squirrel….Natasha announcing intros, love it
April 26th, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Grizzard has the downfield deep threat type offense so maybe Trey Palmer will make a comeback. That short slant dunk and dunk Coen passing game definitely was not his style. We need all the weapons we can get so I hope he turns into something useful
April 26th, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Thats for him next to Evans
April 26th, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Fun Fact: He’s Bo Nix’s brother.
Don’t believe me? Google it.
Dude made big plays for the Ducks (BTW, I’m a Duck).
April 26th, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Nice breakdown, Josh. Thanks, tough to know what’s coming if everything looks the same just a few different players in a series..
April 26th, 2025 at 7:15 pm
A great draft!!!!!
April 26th, 2025 at 7:21 pm
Kenton Smith. I loved watching Tez the past few years and have always been surprised by what he can do against good competition. Having said that, he is no lock to make the team whatsoever. BUT his presence is going to push out a few scrubs that somehow saw the field last year. I have zero love for Sterling or Trey Palmer. Yes, Sterling is a veteran and Baker’s buddy but he cost us on numerous occasions last year and he’s 3x the price of a 7th round pick. I’m sure I’m not the only Buc fan that wouldn’t shed a tear if he’s not on the final 53
April 26th, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Desmond Watson is a Buc, that’s like TWO Defensive Lineman in ONE space! Via can rest some now..
April 26th, 2025 at 7:51 pm
If Johnson can improve his hands from Good to anywhere close to Godwin-esque, his pick is a home run.
When the Bucs really want to put Baker in the shotgun to throw deep, they should go four wide EJGE (Evans-Johnson-Godwin-Egbuka). Tez Johnson offers a quick separation, quick hit YAC threat that will be respected or cost the defense which fails to respect the threat.
If the opponents play off and send the dogs hoping to get home before the routes develop, Johnson can make them pay eight or ten yards at a time. I think that Baker is plenty smart enough to settle for second and short frequently enough that the defense will try to stop it and occasionally leave E, J, G or E open deep.
With Otton and 11-ish personnel, with Johnson in the slot and either EE or EG outside and a RB spilt wide but in motion toward the RB spot at the snap, the Bucs can make it a guess whether the RB is handed the ball, takes a pitch, runs a route in stride or blocks and then releases. If they bite at all on the RB, Johnson should be open. And, if they freeze the pass rush, J, G or an E can make them pay deep.
April 26th, 2025 at 7:53 pm
It could be interesting to have Jones and Palmer both on the field sometimes in a four wide set.
April 26th, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Wow, we drafted Tez 👏🏽 Good freaking draft. Major props to Jason Licht and the entire scouting department — outstanding job
April 26th, 2025 at 8:22 pm
He Is here to be the return guy. They have Shepherd at 5 and last year’s rookie who they love, but didn’t get into action much due to injury, KAM. This guy is #7 if he can prove himself in the return game.
April 26th, 2025 at 9:22 pm
Seems like we get this type every year and they never deliver. Highly skeptical!
April 26th, 2025 at 9:30 pm
@Josh
Spread 2.0 ?
What you described just seems/sounds like a branch (continuation ) of the McDaniel/Mcvay tree to me more than a new system. Nothing different than what last year’s man crush (for some of y’all), the ginger Messiah, was preaching with RPO’s thrown in.
Also, we tried zone run scheme last year and we moved away from it and became better @running the ball afterwards if I remember correctly.
Let’s go Grizz!
April 26th, 2025 at 9:43 pm
Sly Pirate, I’m in Eugene
April 27th, 2025 at 2:46 am
Freddie Solomon. UT in the 70s! Went to the 49ers and proved that college QB was just his warmup. Freddie was a lot of fun to watch he could turn a QB prssure into a single play highlight reel.
Tez seems like that kind of guy to me.
Go Bucs!