The Tampa Bay Bucs continue their pre-draft preparations, and the team will Top 30 visits From late March to early April. These visits allow Tampa Bay to invite players to private meetings at the team facility, allowing Bucs leadership to assess who their draft prospects are in an environment with more time than the Senior Bowl or the NFL Scouting Combine. You will be able to understand it better. Teams can schedule him 30 of these visits.
Players who live within 80 miles of a team facility or who played college ball will not count toward those 30 visits. This bodes well for the Bucs, as Florida State is a prep football mecca with Florida State, UCF, and USF within its range and could bring in a ton of players without reducing their top-30 numbers. Become.
Teams use these visits for a variety of reasons, but these visits can be used as a smokescreen to make other teams think they value a player. Just because a player isn’t hosted doesn’t mean the team doesn’t value that player.last year The Bucs spent a first-round pick on defensive tackle Kariya Kanshi. And they didn’t take him on a Top 30 visit either, but that was a different kind of smokescreen.
Bucs head coach Todd Bowles and general manager Jason Richt – Photo courtesy of Buccaneers
Teams like the Bucks use Top 30 visits to get acquainted with lesser-known prospects who are expected to go late in the draft, or to develop relationships with undrafted free agent prospects. They may be able to help the team in acquiring that player. Players after the draft.
One of the most important elements of these visits is the fact that teams have access to their own physicians to investigate medical questions about players. This gives the team additional information on how comfortable they would actually be selecting a player in his upcoming 2024 NFL Draft.
Tampa Bay is also using Zoom meetings to meet with NFL draft prospects, rather than using top-30 visits to get to know potential Buccaneers.
Below is a list of players who have reportedly visited the team on a Top 30 visit or are scheduled for a Top 30 visit with Tampa Bay.
Bucs 2024 Top 30 Visitors
wide receiver
Florida State University WR Keon Coleman – ESPN’s Jenna Laine reports Coleman, a potential option for the Bucs at No. 26, will visit Tampa Bay. The Bucks also formally met with Coleman at the NFL Scouting Combine.
***NEW Western Kentucky WR Malachi Coley – Josh Edwards of CBS Sports reports that Coley, who led all of college football in receiving yards last season, will visit the Bucs (and seven other teams) in April.
tight end
Illinois TE Tip Lyman – Draft Network’s Justin Melo reports Lyman, who ran a 4.64 at the NFL Scouting Combine and is considered a third-day pick, will visit Tampa Bay.
outside linebacker
WEST MICHIGAN EDGE Marshawn Kneeland – Bleacher Report’s Ryan Fowler reports that Nyland, whom the Bucs met formally at the NFL Scouting Combine, will visit Tampa Bay.
inside linebacker
Texas A&M ILB Edgerrin Cooper – Bleacher Report’s Ryan Fowler reported that Cooper, who met privately with Tampa Bay at the NFL Scouting Combine, will visit the Bucs.
Additional visit notes
• Arizona edge rusher taylor upshaw The son of former Bucks first-round pick Regan Upshaw is from Bradenton and will be attending the Bucks’ local pro day, according to Sportskeeda’s Tony Poulin. Upshaw spent four years at Michigan, recording 8.5 sacks and 11 tackles for loss at Arizona last year after recording five sacks in his career with the Wolverines.
***new • UTEP inside linebacker Tyris Knight He plans to visit the Bucks while attending the team’s local pro day in April, according to TDN’s Justin Melo. Knight had an impressive performance at the NFL Scouting Combine, running a 4.63 in the 40-yard dash.
Bucs 2024 Integrated Visit Tracker
The Pewter Report has a comprehensive list of most of the draft prospects Tampa Bay has interviewed publicly or privately at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. This list is available at PewterReport.com. Please click here.
