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Getty Images Every NFL player is motivated. Some are more motivated than others. So who are the most motivated for 2020? That topic was the subject of Monday’s PFT Live draft. Simms and I drafted three each and discussed several others. Feel free to discuss the wisdom of our selections and to...

Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians said last week that running back Ronald Jones will be carrying the load for the team in the backfield this season and the amount of the load he’ll bear will have something to do with how he fares in the passing game. Jones caught 31 passes for...

Getty Images The Buccaneers waived receiver Travis Jonsen with an injury designation Monday, the team announced. That leaves the Bucs with 11 receivers. He signed with the team as a college free agent out of Montana State this offseason. Jonsen began his college career as a quarterback at...

Getty Images Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman held his first session with reporters since the end of the 2019 season on Monday and that meant questions about the biggest difference in New England this season. Tom Brady is in Tampa, which means Edelman is headed into a season without him...

Getty Images After an early run of running backs on the reserve/COVID-19 list, the Bucs are now back to strength. The team announced Sunday that rookie running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn had been activated from the list, as well as the previously reported re-signing of wide receiver Jaydon Mickens...

Getty Images Tom Brady‘s decision to leave the Patriots after 20 years has led to a lot of new things in both New England and Tampa. It’s also led to a different kind of challenge for Brady this offseason. During a video conference with reporters on Thursday, Brady said he spent time learning...

Getty Images Running back Devonta Freeman hasn’t found a job since being released by the Falcons earlier this year and he shared some of what he’s looking for in a new team on Thursday. Freeman made an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio and said that he wants to “win so bad” with his next team...

Getty Images Tom Brady has much to learn about his new team and his new teammates after 19 years in New England. His new team and his new teammates have much to learn about him, too. The quarterback is embracing the challenge. But Brady was asked Thursday whether the team was buying into him...

Getty Images During his first press conference in weeks as the new quarterback of the Buccaneers, Tom Brady was asked by a reporter about his concerns regarding the potential of contracting COVID-19, in light of his recent decision to channel FDR’s “only thing we have to fear is fear itself”...

Getty Images The Buccaneers had three of the running backs vying for roles behind Ronald Jones on the reserve/COVID-19 list, but they’ll have a fuller backfield in the days to come. The NFL’s daily transaction wire shows that the team activated Aca'Cedric Ware and Raymond Calais from the list...

Getty Images Why bargain with the union for the right to compel players to live in a hotel all season when it can be done on a “voluntary” basis? NFL teams are waking up to the ability to create a hardened bubble without seeking formal permission to do so. The league already has said, in an...

Getty Images The Buccaneers cut receiver Jaydon Mickens on Friday. They are re-signing him this week, Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com reports. The move is pending a COVID-19 test. Mickens, 26, joined the team late last season. He played one game, seeing action on 26 offensive snaps and 12 on...

Getty Images Buccaneers running back LeSean McCoy said on Tuesday that he’s willing to play any role that the team has in mind for him this season. Head coach Bruce Arians didn’t set that role during a Wednesday video conference, but he did provide some sense of how things are going to look in...

Getty Images It’s been over 20 years since the last time Bruce Arians had to get ready for the start of a football season without some preseason games to help get his team ready to play games that count. Arians was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama in 1997. He’s been in...

Getty Images Hours before the deadline for players to opt out of the 2020 season, the Buccaneers have lost their first player. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Buccaneers tackle Brad Seaton has decided to opt out, and will qualify for the high-risk stipend of $350,000. Seaton spent...

Getty Images Running back LeSean McCoy dropped hints about a desire to return to the Buccaneers throughout the offseason, but he won’t be in Philadelphia this year. McCoy signed with the Buccaneers and told reporters on a Tuesday conference call that he continued to monitor the Eagles and...

Getty Images Veteran running back LeSean McCoy arrived in Tampa Bay only recently, and he doesn’t know what his role will be. Whatever it is, he’ll welcome it. “I only can control what I can control,” McCoy told reporters on Tuesday. “If it’s five carries, if it’s 10 carries, whatever it is...

Getty Images As the positive COVID-19 test for Eagles coach Doug Pederson shows, any NFL head coach can be rendered unavailable at a moment’s notice in 2020. So which teams are in the best shape to withstand the sudden availability of their head coach? That was the subject of Tuesday’s PFT...

Getty Images The re-resurrected XFL will move forward under the management of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, his ex-wife and current business manager Dany Garcia, and RedBird Capital. Garcia spoke to Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com regarding the vision for XFL 3.0, if/when the bankruptcy court...

Getty Images Shaq Barrett made a big splash during his first season with the Buccaneers, but he wasn’t able to turn his 19.5 sacks into a long-term deal with the team. Barrett will play on a one-year contract for the second straight season after being franchise-tagged by the team early in the...