It’s not usually {that a} Bucs backup makes an all-anything workforce. However that’s precisely what has occurred with backup quarterback Jake Browning. Professional Soccer Focus put out their All-Undrafted Crew and it options the Buccaneers backup quarterback.
Bucs QB Jake Browning Leads Skinny Group
PFF notes that there wasn’t a really giant choice to select from when choosing the quarterback for his or her better of the undrafted workforce.
“Solely 10 undrafted quarterbacks have recorded at the least 100 dropbacks over the previous three seasons. Jake Browning, who moved from Cincinnati to Tampa Bay this offseason, leads the group with 448 dropbacks and a 66.7 PFF passing grade.
Different undrafted quarterbacks who’ve seen significant motion not too long ago embrace Max Brosmer and Brady Cook dinner, although neither has carried out notably nicely. Ravens backup Tyler Huntley additionally warrants consideration regardless of being sacked on 10.0% of his dropbacks. The hole between Browning and Huntley is sufficiently small that both choice can be defensible.”
Funnily sufficient, Huntley is a former Professional Bowler – displaying precisely how low that individual accolade has fallen in recent times – however Browning nonetheless will get the nod. However creator Daire Carragher does notice the 2 are basically interchangeable by their measurements.
New Bucs QB Jake Browning – Picture by: IMAGN Photos – Sam Greene
Jake Browning’s NFL Accolades Prior To Becoming a member of The Bucs
Jake Browning was initially an undrafted free agent in 2019, however he didn’t get his first taking part in time in 2023 for the Bengals after starter Joe Burrow went down with harm. Enjoying 9 video games and beginning seven, Browning led Cincinnati to a 4-3 file whereas main the NFL in completion proportion (70.3%), throwing for 1,936 yards and 12 touchdowns to only seven interceptions.
He was pressed into service as soon as once more in 2025 after one other Burrow harm. This time Browning’s play and fortunes weren’t practically as constructive. The Bengals went 0-3, as Browning accomplished simply 64.8% of his passes whereas his yards per try fell 23% from his 2023 mark. His touchdown-to-interception ratio additionally dipped into the detrimental.
That prompted the Bengals to commerce for Joe Flacco and let Browning discover a residence elsewhere in 2026. He now finds himself in Tampa Bay backing up Baker Mayfield, who has missed precisely 20 dropbacks in three years with the Buccaneers.
Bucs QB Jake Browning – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR
Browning profiles nicely for the Bucs’ projected offense in 2026. Underneath new offensive coordinator Zac Robinson there needs to be loads of underneath heart play motion, which is the place Browning excels. It was that a part of his recreation that helped him play at his finest for Zack Taylor in Cincinnati.
Taylor was capable of run his true offensive imaginative and prescient with Browning on the helm versus Burrow who labored as the facility heart when he was wholesome and most well-liked to run a shotgun-heavy offense the place he not often turned his again to the protection.
Primarily based on latest efficiency, Browning is one of the best backup in Tampa Bay since Blaine Gabbert graced the sidelines along with his golden hair and wonderful mustache. The Buccaneers had long-time veteran Teddy Bridgewater as Mayfield’s backup final 12 months, however that didn’t work out nicely and each the workforce and the quarterback determined to half methods this offseason.
Connor Bazelak, an undrafted free agent, beat out Kyle Trask, a former second-round choose, for the QB3 job and spent final 12 months on the apply squad. This 12 months, Bazelak will battle undrafted free agent QB Jalon Daniels out of Kansas for the appropriate to be the third-string quarterback in Tampa Bay.
The hope is, in fact, that the Buccaneers by no means must see Browning on the sector except they’re up a number of scores. But when he’s pressed into service, Tampa Bay believes he can proper the ship lengthy sufficient for Mayfield to get again to motion.
