Todd Bowles likes what he has after finalizing the roster.
Like every team in the NFL, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had to trim their roster down to 53 players. Tuesday was the day organizations across the league made their roster moves official as they submitted the list of names that were cut, while a select few get the opportunity to return to the team.
The process is never easy for the front office, coaches, and especially not for the players. But it is a business as they say and the group of players the Buccaneers elected to make a part of the 53-man roster is a special group as head coach Todd Bowles talked about the players that made it to the regular season roster.
“Well, they work hard, and they’ve got good chemistry – that’s the biggest thing you can see right now,” Bowles said. “You’ve got to wait until they play to see them play. Obviously, we want to play mistake-free football but coming together as a group as early as they did – that’s positive.”
It may sound like typical coach talk, however, the players on the roster ahead of their 2024 campaign all have special reasoning throughout the roster why they were chosen. That doesn’t mean that the decisions were so easy to make.
Bowles talked about filtering through the difficult roster decisions.
“It was really the cross positions where you’re weighing the outside [linebacker] against the sixth [wide] receiver and that type of stuff, but we felt that it’s hard to get pass rushers in this league and hopefully we can get [the wide receivers] through to the practice squad and bring them up as needed.”
Below is the official list on the Bucs moves to get to the 53-man roster limit.
Waived:
DB Marcus Banks
DL C.J. Brewer
TE Sal Cannella
P Nolan Cooney
DL Judge Culpepper
OL Xavier Delgado
DL Mike Greene
LB Antonio Grier Jr.
OLB Daniel Grzesiak
OL Luke Haggard
DB Andrew Hayes
DB Keenan Isaac
RB Ramon Jefferson
WR Cephus Johnson III
OL Ryan Johnson
OL Avery Jones
WR Latreal Jones
LB Vi Jones
WR Tanner Knue
DL Brandon Matterson
DB Chris McDonald Jr.
OL Lorenz Metz
WR Ryan Miller
OLB Jay Person
TE Tanner Taula
WR Raleigh Webb
RB DJ Williams
DB Rashad Wisdom
Waived (Injured):
LB Kalen DeLoach
OLB Shaun Peterson Jr.
DL Lwal Uguak
Terminated Contracts Of:
WR Sterling Shepard
WR Cody Thompson
LS Zach Triner
TE David Wells
QB John Wolford
Placed on Injured Reserve:
RB Chase Edmonds
Placed on Injured Reserve/Designated for Return:
WR Rakim Jarrett
