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stestansfield'S MOCK DRAFT
RUN ON JUL 27, 2025

Bucs let the board fall to them

  • stestansfield DRAFTING FOR THE
    Buccaneers
Draft Selections
A.J. Harris Head Shot
PICK: 26 RND: 1 (TB)
A.J. Harris
CB Penn State
Jake Slaughter Head Shot
PICK: 54 RND: 2 (TB)
Jake Slaughter
C Florida
David Bailey Head Shot
PICK: 86 RND: 3 (TB)
David Bailey
LB-EDGE Stanford
Xavian Sorey Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 200 RND: 6 (TB)
Xavian Sorey Jr.
LB Arkansas
Zen Michalski Head Shot
PICK: 235 RND: 7 (TB)
Zen Michalski
OT Indiana
Draft Picks Received
A.J. Harris Head Shot
PICK: 26 RND: 1 (LAR)
A.J. Harris
CB Penn State
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 2 (GB)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 3 (LAR)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 6 (LAR)
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Draft Picks Traded
Anthony Hill Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 22 RND: 1 (LAR)
Anthony Hill Jr.
LB Texas
Earnest Greene III Head Shot
PICK: 122 RND: 4 (BAL)
Earnest Greene III
OT Georgia
Rasheem Biles Head Shot
PICK: 161 RND: 5 (GB)
Rasheem Biles
LB Pittsburgh
Players Gained
Head Shot
Mark Andrews
TE
Draft Grade — Buccaneers
Overall B+
ValueB- NeedB+ TradesA+ FutureB+
The Buccaneers worked the phones like thieves and earned a B+.

Nobody had Xavian Sorey Jr. this high, and it is not close. The Buccaneers reached 102 spots to get him at slot 200. More right than wrong, and a B+ to match.

They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own. They banked enough surplus on Slaughter to cover a lot of smaller sins. If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through interior defensive lineman.

Mark Andrews gives the group a proven body among the projects.

Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.

Pick Analysis
Pick26 Rnd1 A.J. Harris
In pick No. 26 they get a ballhawk on the outside. A clean fit for the roster.
Pick54 Rnd2 Jake Slaughter
Jake Slaughter in Round 2, Pick 22 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick86 Rnd3 David Bailey
David Bailey slipping to the Round 3 slot is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It fills a real need, too.
Pick200 Rnd6 Xavian Sorey Jr.
Xavian Sorey Jr. at the 200th pick is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
Pick235 Rnd7 Zen Michalski
Zen Michalski at No. 235 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.