So after taking a 10+ million dollar paycut, Jamel Dean has a fantastic season but continues his trend of being unavailable due to injury during times of great need for the team. Like of course, came in and locked down the Jets and the Cardinals, but missed the Eagles, the Seahawks, the Bills and the Rams.

What's the verdict for after this season? Cut or Keep?

29 comments

  3. Playing lights out this year, but i can’t forget how bad he was the past 2 years.

    I’m still not confident he can sustain this success. Franchise tag seams like the best option tbh but we will see. Pay him big bucks but do not commit more than a year

  7. He took a pay-cut to play this year, when he was asked if he’d re-sign he basically said he doesn’t want to, I don’t think he likes this org, and honestly he’s only playing like this because it’s a contract year. We had him for years and his play wasn’t like this, he’s clearly just putting in the effort for a big paycheck and there’s no assurance he’ll keep it up after the season ends. He’s also fairly injury prone and has missed a lot of time, I don’t see him staying. I hope Morrison and Zyon stay healthy, they need to step it up too. I kinda still want us to take a CB next year.

  8. Best ability is availability. He’s never played a full season. His two best years were 2022 and this year. Both contract years. He’s gone to the highest bidder.

  11. I think this was always somewhat of a redshirt year for Morrison given his surgery in the offseason, but with how Dean’s played and how Morrison’s looked, I don’t think we’re ready to rely on him. Bring back Dean imo if you can.

  14. Knowing our history, his production gonna drop or unlucky with injury as soon as we resign him. That’s just how it is with the Bucs, especially with the secondaries. Winfield did in 2024, Dean in 2023, Carlton Davis in 2022 and McCollum this year.

  15. Genuine question, if he signs with someone else would TB get a compensation pick? I doubt it, but I’m not sure.

  16. Offer him whatever he is worth. We already docked his pay, keeping him qoukd likely not be a good idea, his attitude toward the club cannot be positive. Better hope next draft has some if the talent we need…..CB, LB, DE

  17. Cut. This man does not deserve CB1 money, which he will want. I’m not gonna belabor the point but I’ve seen enough of him over the years to know his successes and short stints of good play are illusory and more a product of circumstance than ability.

  19. It helps that Dennis has allowed the most yards in coverage so teams don’t feel the need to target the corners. The LB core is awful in coverage this year.

  20. He earned another contract this year.

    Now the thing is, does he want to stay in Tampa or do we get outbid?

  22. Pretty hard to cut a guy who will be a UDFA at the end of the year.

    There will be a feeding frenzy to sign him, and he will be very expensive based on this year. He’s not coming back.

  23. Man, he’s definitely hitting the open market after the year!

    Wether or not he ends up resigning with the bucs (which I think is unlikely)

    Loving his higher level play this year though

  24. He’s decent. Can’t go wrong either way. 

    I don’t agree he’s the number one this year. 

  25. Depends on the salary number and what the 2026 Draft looks like. B-Mo has obviously underwhelmed.

    Id rather have the compensatory pick.

  26. Cut him. He’s had 2 injury stints this year and can’t ever be counted on. We have too many injuries to keep bringing back injured players. Bye bye Dean.

  28. The worst part is they don’t want to resign him but they wanna pay Zyon. They should cut Zyon based on this season alone

  29. He definitely gotta go his numbers are inflated or at the very least not fairly shown he is ALWAYS hurt man and we already overpaid Zyon somehow lmao he gotta go

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