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Draft Selections
Tyler Warren Head Shot
PICK: 20 RND: 1 (TB)
Tyler Warren
TE Penn State
Landon Jackson Head Shot
PICK: 53 RND: 2 (TB)
Landon Jackson
DL-EDGE Arkansas
Quinn Ewers Head Shot
PICK: 84 RND: 3 (TB)
Quinn Ewers
QB Texas
Denzel Burke Head Shot
PICK: 85 RND: 3 (TB)
Denzel Burke
CB Ohio State
Lathan Ransom Head Shot
PICK: 121 RND: 4 (TB)
Lathan Ransom
S Ohio State
Logan Brown Head Shot
PICK: 157 RND: 5 (TB)
Logan Brown
OT Kansas
Oronde Gadsden II Head Shot
PICK: 208 RND: 6 (TB)
Oronde Gadsden II
TE Syracuse
Jermari Harris Head Shot
PICK: 235 RND: 7 (TB)
Jermari Harris
CB Iowa
Draft Picks Received
Tyler Warren Head Shot
PICK: 20 RND: 1 (DEN)
Tyler Warren
TE Penn State
Denzel Burke Head Shot
PICK: 85 RND: 3 (DEN)
Denzel Burke
CB Ohio State
Oronde Gadsden II Head Shot
PICK: 208 RND: 6 (DEN)
Oronde Gadsden II
TE Syracuse
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 5 (DEN)
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Draft Picks Traded
Tetairoa McMillan Head Shot
PICK: 19 RND: 1 (DEN)
Tetairoa McMillan
WR Arizona
Players Gained
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Kris Abrams-Draine
CB
Draft Grade — Buccaneers
Overall B
ValueB NeedB TradesA FutureB-
A sensible, unshowy class lands the Buccaneers a B.

The Buccaneers treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending Round 3, Pick 21 on Denzel Burke a full 30 spots early. Good, not great, and the B says as much.

Whatever else happened, they won the night they took Ransom. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through interior defensive lineman. They squeezed a little extra out of every move they made.

Offensive lineman was the priority and it is no longer a question, which is most of the job.

In sum, a sturdy weekend with one asterisk, the interior defensive lineman spot they never got to.

Pick Analysis
Pick20 Rnd1 Tyler Warren
In slot 20 they get a red-zone target to build around. It fills the loudest need on the roster.
Pick53 Rnd2 Landon Jackson
Landon Jackson at the Round 2 slot is the sort of value that quietly wins a weekend. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick84 Rnd3 Quinn Ewers
Quinn Ewers in No. 84 is the kind of reach that only looks good if he outplays it. The roster fit checks out.
Pick85 Rnd3 Denzel Burke
A wild overpay on Denzel Burke in the 85th pick, the sort that defines a class for the wrong reasons. It fills a real need, too.
Pick121 Rnd4 Lathan Ransom
They robbed the room for Lathan Ransom here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick157 Rnd5 Logan Brown
They read the board right and Logan Brown was the payoff at pick 157. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick208 Rnd6 Oronde Gadsden II
A slide stopped in Round 6, Pick 32, with Oronde Gadsden II worth more than the price. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick235 Rnd7 Jermari Harris
Nothing to complain about; Jermari Harris went a shade earlier than his grade, which is fine. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.