The Tampa Bay Buccaneers began play in 1976, and a few months before their first game they took part in their first NFL Draft. They spent the first-overall pick in the 1976 draft on Oklahoma defensive end Lee Roy Selmon, who would eventually find his way into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was the first of 439 draft picks the Buccaneers have made in the 46 years since (not counting supplemental drafts or the USFL dispersal draft in 1984).
That number is about to go up, as the 2023 NFL Draft starts on Thursday, April 27. At the moment, Tampa Bay owns nine picks in this year’s version of what is officially titled the “Player Selection Meeting,” though trades during the proceedings could push that number up or down a little bit. Here is where those picks currently fall:
· Round One, 19th Overall
· Round Two, 50th Overall
· Round Three, 82nd Overall
· Round Five, 153rd Overall
· Round Five, 175th Overall
· Round Six, 179th Overall
· Round Six, 181st Overall
· Round Six, 196th Overall
· Round Seven, 252nd Overall
When the Buccaneers first joined the league, the draft was 17 rounds long, but it was cut to 12 the next year. It was then shortened to eight rounds in 1993 and then to its current seven-round format in 1994. Over the next week, leading right up to the beginning of this year’s draft, we are going to look at those first seven rounds, one by one, and examine the Buccaneers history of selections in each one. We start today with Round Seven. Below you will find the full list of Buccaneer seventh-rounders followed by some notes about that collection of players overall.
(Since this format excludes players taken after the seventh round in the 1976-1993 drafts, here for posterity are some of the picks in Rounds 8-17 that worked out well: RG George Ragsdale, 12th, 1976; WR Larry Mucker, 9th, 1977; DT David Logan, 12th, 1979; LB Andy Hawkins, 10th, 1980; WR Gerald Carter, 9th, 1980; RB/KR Michael Morton, 12th, 1982; K Donald Igwebuike, 8th, 1985; DT Reuben Davis, 9th, 1988; S Marty Carter, 8th, 1991; FB Anthony McDowell, 8th, 1992).
2022 | Pick No. 248 | Andre Anthony | OLB | LSU
2021 | Pick No. 259 | Grant Stuard | ILB | Houston
2021 | Pick No. 251 | Chris Wilcox | CB | BYU
2020 | Pick No. 245 | Raymond Calais | RB | Louisiana-Lafayette
2020 | Pick No. 241 | Chapelle Russell | ILB | Temple
2019 | Pick No. 215 | Terry Buckner | DT | Missouri
2017 | Pick No. 223 | Stevie Tu’ikolovatu | DT | USC
2015 | Pick No. 231 | Joey Iosefa | FB | Hawaii
2012 | Pick No. 233 | Drake Dunsmore | TE | Northwestern
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