A recent Bleacher Report exercise explored what an NFL expansion draft could look like, and for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the results say more about roster construction than anything else.
In the scenario, Tampa Bay would lose a group of depth pieces rather than core starters, including Kameron Johnson, Devin Culp, Elijah Klein, David Walker, and Rashad Wisdom.
The Buccaneers don’t have many contracts that teams would look to offload, and they aren’t in a position where high-priced veterans outweigh their production. That forces an expansion team to look elsewhere, which, in this case, means pulling from the middle and back ends of the roster.
The interesting part is what didn’t happen: veterans like Chris Godwin and Zyon McCollum were considered but ultimately left alone, reinforcing the idea that Tampa Bay’s core would remain intact even in a scenario designed to strip the team of talent.
Where this actually impacts the team is depth. Losing multiple rotational pieces across different position groups would force the Buccaneers to rely more heavily on their top-end talent while reshuffling the bottom half of the roster.
That’s the real takeaway. Tampa Bay wouldn’t be gutted, but it would be tested, and in a league where depth often decides seasons, that kind of hit matters more than it looks on paper.
This article originally appeared on Bucs Wire: Bucs depth exposed in expansion draft scenario by analyst