Pewter Plank

With the NFL Combine officially in the rearview, teams are going to start getting serious about forming draft plans. For the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, attention will mostly be focused on free agency in the interim, but long term the team needs to take a hard look at this year's draft class to figure out ways to both reload in key areas or start rebuilding others. No matter what happens with Baker Mayfield and Mike Evans, most of the Bucs draft needs remain the same. Not re-signing Mayfield won't suddenly have Tampa Bay in the running to trade up for a quarterback, nor will losing Evans mean a reach for a wide receiver. Instead, the Bucs can use the draft as an alternative to spending big money in free agency to patch up certain areas that might be flying under the radar with so much attention focused elsewhere on the roster.