The Tampa Bay Bucs’ 2024 NFL Draft class was stuffed with seniors except for working again Bucky Irving, however Tampa Bay has used loads of premium draft picks on underclassmen earlier than. In truth from 2018-2023 each first-round decide by the Bucs has been an underclassman.
Defensive sort out Vita Vea (2018), linebacker Devin White (2019), left sort out Tristan Wirfs (2020), outdoors linebacker Joe Tryon-Shoyinka (2021) and defensive sort out Calijah Kancey (2023) all handed up their ultimate yr of faculty eligibility to enter the NFL Draft and had been chosen by Tampa Bay.
This yr a complete of 67 underclassmen have declared for the 2025 NFL Draft. That’s practically half the scale of the underclassmen class of 130 early entrants within the 2021 NFL Draft. Final yr noticed a latest low of simply 58 gamers go away faculty early – largely attributable to an additional yr of eligibility attributable to COVID-19 in addition to NIL endorsement cash that some prime soccer gamers obtain in faculty lately.
Will the Bucs draft one – or extra – of those underclassmen this yr? We’ll discover out in late April when the 2025 NFL Draft concludes. However for a staff that wants assistance on protection, the truth that there are a complete of 16 defensive tackles and edge rushers helps this yr’s draft class. And the 5 linebackers, 5 cornerbacks and three safeties which are early entrants bolsters these positions, too.
The 2025 NFL Draft takes place April 24-26. The Bucs have six picks within the draft in each spherical aside from the sixth spherical.
2025 NFL Draft Underclassmen – Offense
QUARTERBACKS – 2Texas QB Quinn Ewers – 6-2, 210Alabama QB Jalen Milroe – 6-2, 225
RUNNING BACKS – 13Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty – 5-9, 215North Carolina RB Omarion Hamption – 6-0, 220Iowa RB Kaleb Johnson – 6-0, 225Tennessee RB Dylan Sampson – 5-11, 200Georgia RB Trevor Etienne – 5-9, 209Oregon RB Jordan James – 5-10, 205Oklahoma State RB Ollie Gordon II – 6-2, 225Kansas State RB D.J. Giddens – 6-1, 212Miami RB Damien Martinez – 6-0, 232Texas RB Jaydon Blue – 6-0, 200Syracuse RB LeQuint Allen – 6-0, 200South Carolina RB Raheim Sanders – 6-0, 230Michigan State RB Nate Carter – 5-10, 200
WIDE RECEIVERS – 7Arizona WR Tetairoa McMillan – 6-5, 210Missouri WR Luther Burden III – 5-11, 208Stanford WR Elic Ayomanor – 6-2, 210Texas WR Isaiah Bond – 5-11, 180Texas WR Matthew Golden – 6-0, 190Louisville WR Ja’Corey Brooks – 6-3, 195Miami WR Sam Brown Jr. – 6-2, 195
TIGHT ENDS – 5Michigan TE Colston Loveland – 6-5, 245Bowling Inexperienced TE Harold Fanin Jr. – 6-4, 230LSU TE Mason Taylor – 6-6, 253Syracuse TE Oronde Gadsden II – 6-5, 235Miami TE Elijah Arroyo – 6-4, 245
OFFENSIVE LINE – 11LSU OT Will Campbell – 6-6, 320Texas OT Kelvin Banks Jr. – 6-4, 320Ohio State OT Josh Simmons – 6-5, 310Alabama G Tyler Booker – 6-5, 325Arizona OT Jonah Savaiinaea – 6-6, 330Texas OT Cameron Williams – 6-5, 335LSU OT Emery Jones Jr. – 6-6, 332Oregon OT Josh Conerly Jr. – 6-4, 305Georgia G Dylan Fairchild – 6-5, 315Missouri OT Armand Membou – 6-3, 325Purdue OT Marcus Mbow – 6-5, 300
2025 NFL Draft Underclassmen – Protection
DEFENSIVE LINE – 9Michigan DT Mason Graham – 6-3, 320Michigan DT Kenneth Grant – 6-3, 339Ole Miss DT Walter Nolen – 6-3, 305Kentucky DT Deone Walker – 6-6, 345Oregon DT Derrick Harmon – 6-5, 310South Carolina DT T.J. Sanders – 6-4, 290Florida State DT Joshua Farmer – 6-3, 317Georgia DT Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins – 6-5, 280Maryland DT Jordan Phillips – 6-6, 320
EDGE RUSHERS – 7Penn State Edge Abdul Carter – 6-3, 259Tennessee Edge James Pearce Jr. – 6-5, 243Texas A&M Edge Nic Scourton – 6-4, 280Georgia Edge Mykel Williams – 6-5, 265Georgia Edge Jalon Walker – 6-2, 245Texas A&M Edge Shemar Stewart – 6-6, 291Marshall Edge Mike Inexperienced – 6-4, 248
LINEBACKERS – 5Alabama ILB Jihaad Campbell – 6-3, 244Ole Miss ILB Chris Paul Jr. – 6-1, 235Florida ILB Shemar James – 6-1, 235UCLA ILB Carson Schwesinger – 6-2, 226Oklahoma State ILB Nick Martin – 6-0, 220
CORNERBACKS – 5Colorado CB Travis Hunter – 6-1, 185Michigan CB Will Johnson – 6-2, 202Kentucky CB Maxwell Hairston – 6-1, 186Kansas State CB Jacob Parrish – 5-10, 198Florida State CB Azareye’h Thomas – 6-2, 198
SAFETIES – 3Georgia S Malaki Starks – 6-1, 205South Carolina S Nick Emmanwori – 6-3, 227Penn State S Kevin Winston Jr. – 6-2, 208