The List Of Bucs Free Agents
March 3rd, 2026
Defensive tackle Greg Gaines.
The free agency dinner bell rings at noon on Monday, March 9. What an exciting day that will be!
No, Joe doesn’t expect the Bucs to run out and buy a bunch of expensive free agents, but late that night Adam Schefter could jump on Twitter and declare that the Bucs have re-signed Mike Evans. And Schefter might also tell the world the Bucs signed a starting inside linebacker like Quincy Williams, or Quay Walker or Tremaine Edmunds.
Perhaps the Bucs will nail down some of their own free agents next week, as well?
For those wondering about those free agents, Joe has a list below:
Unrestricted Free Agents
WR Mike Evans
WR Sterling Shepard
RB Rachaad White
QB Teddy Bridgewater
LB Lavonte David
LB Deion Jones
LB Anthony Walker
CB Jamel Dean
CB Kindle Vildor
G Dan Feeney
G Michael Jordan
T Charlie Heck
DL Logan Hall
DL Greg Gaines
TE Ko Kieft
TE Cade Otton
Edge non-rusher Haason Reddick
Restricted Free Agents
Safety/corner Christian Izien
RB Sean Tucker
OLB Markees Watts
Exclusive Rights Free Agent
Long snapper Evan Deckers
The restricted free agents need to receiving a “tender” by their current clubs by Wednesday, March 11, at 4 p.m. Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht already has said he wants running back Sean Tucker to return. Joe assumes versatile Christian Izien is desired, too.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:25 am
Unpopular opinion.We move on from Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.
Unfortunately, both our great Wide receivers have become old and brittle.
It’s The NFL. Sad but true.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:28 am
Get rid of them all.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:43 am
Not fair to say Godwin is brittle. 2 catastrophic type injuries in his career, yes. And those injuries were so bad that recovery time for each of those injuries extended into the following season. He’s never been prone to the nagging type injuries though.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:44 am
Sign none of them im done with losers on this team
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:46 am
I would say it’s important to stay the course and try to keep both Evans and Godwin. Maybe Godwin could do a restructure to make Evans more affordable.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:46 am
They are besties after all!
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:50 am
Quite a few of those guys would be good to have back. Are we going to be able to improve on some of them? Maybe but it will be difficult and we will need to in order to be competitive.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:51 am
That’s a lot of junk by Ring of Honor GM Jason Licht.
Yikes.
March 3rd, 2026 at 10:55 am
Let Godwin go sign Evans to a 2 year let him retire as a Buc, bring back David, Jones, Jordan, Otton
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:00 am
Just read an article that listed the best FA by position. Out of about 100 players the Bucs listed about 4-5. The rest of the list above were considered not worth listing. BTW, Mike Evans was listed as best WR FA. Say goodbye.
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:02 am
Don’t wanna lose a long snapper
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:14 am
Joe…. Well played.
Edge non-rusher Haason Reddick
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:19 am
A lot of turnover would be a good thing.
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:23 am
@oscar i agree with you godwin isnt injury prone but his running style might be setting him up for these type of injuries
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:37 am
To me, those 3 LBs and those 2 Guards did the least to help us win games last year.
So, whether through free agency or draft — I’d love some special attention there.
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:46 am
Gaines, Hall and Otton if the deals aren’t too much. Same for Evans. The rest aren’t coming back and/or aren’t worth bringing back. Lots of good defensive interior linemen in this draft
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:46 am
Rumors is Mike’s going to the 49ers wild
March 3rd, 2026 at 11:50 am
Are the Bucs ready to win a Super Bowl? No we are not. That’s why i don’t want Evans and David back. With the money we save from not resigning both it will give us a chance with about 30 or so million to sign 2 really good or 3 good free agents on defense and could then draft another WR. We don’t owe either one anything. Both have been paid well, but their time has past. Father time always wins. It’s time to look at what makes the team better and signing them both is not good for the teams future.
March 3rd, 2026 at 12:18 pm
Excellent use of burying the lede with edge non-rusher Hasson Reddick.
Now keep in mind that Ring of Fire GM J-Licht bid against himself for his services…while making him the 3rd highest paid Buc in 2025.
Love the descriptor nonetheless!
March 3rd, 2026 at 1:12 pm
Re-sign:
– Hall (if the price is right)
– Jordan (cheap depth)
– LVD (for @ $5M as a rotational player no longer a starter)
– Otton (if the price is right – I would like to see an upgrade at TE)
– Shepard (practice squad/back-up)
– Izien (cheap/solid depth)
– Evans – let him test FA. Too injury prone the past 2 seasons.
March 3rd, 2026 at 1:37 pm
What is Joe’s intel on Keift? Is he going to be ready to play? It seemed like he was a big factor in the run game in 2024.
March 3rd, 2026 at 1:40 pm
Good one Joe on Hasaan…..😆 Go Bucs!!!
March 3rd, 2026 at 1:53 pm
Bucs need to upgrade in a MAJOR way.
o Re-sign Izien (quality backup).
o Re-sign Dean (IF he wants to come back … he won’t … and IF the price is right … it won’t be; his Market Value is $12.5 mil but he’ll be offered much more).
o Re-sign Evans (IF the price is right … it won’t be; his Market Value is $13.3 mil but he’ll be offered much more).
o Re-sign LVD (as a part-timer and IF the price is right; his Market Value is $7.4 mil but that’s way too high for a part-timer).
o Re-sign Otton (only IF the price is right … it won’t be; his Market Value is $7.9 mil but Bucs won’t pay that).
Move on from all the rest and be willing to pay good $$$ for QUALITY UPGRADES. Need to re-do a number of high-value contracts for players who we want to keep after next year (only Mayfield, Wirfs, Goedeke come to mind). Bucs have $112 mil in CAP Value tied up in those 3 alone; should be able to clear $50-60 mil in salary CAP by redoing those contracts. Add that to our existing $11.3 mil of CAP space plus the $18.7 mil we’ll free up by only carrying forward 33 of the 51 on our existing salary CAP roster (they all count as part of the Top-51 number, but many will be replaced by FAs and draft picks). That’d give us a total of around $80-$90 mil to play with to balance our salary CAP by season’s start.