Focus Now On Trey Hendrickson?
March 7th, 2026
“Hey Bucs, do you have my agent’s number? We expect a call Monday.”
Joe was never comfortable with the chatter that the Raiders and John Spytek/Mark Davis/Tom Brady wanted two first-round picks for badass edge rusher Maxx Crosby.
Crosby, who is about to turn 29, is coming off knee surgery. That’s not a good mix. Not for two first-round picks. A first-round and a conditional day two pick? Sure.
We’ll see if Crosby works out for the Crows, who got him last night for the ransom Las Vegas wanted for him: two first-round picks.
And Joe has no idea if Crosby wanted to play for the Bucs, though Joe is sure that Chucky could have helped grease the wheels for his good friend and former player.
Still out there, though, is likely the second-best defensive end available, a guy who has 74.5 sacks this decade, a Florida boy who reportedly wants to play for the Bucs.
It would be just wild to Joe that a team which has a crater on its roster for the most important position on defense wouldn’t be in serious negotiations with a Hall of Fame-level player who wants to play for the Bucs.
So for Joe, the price tag on damaged goods like Crosby and Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht’s known lust for holding onto draft picks like gold just seemed like a move that had a better chance of being consummated in bars but not so much in reality.
With Hendrickson, however, no draft picks need to be burned.
But unless Licht has some damning intel on Hendrickson, there’s no good reason not to make a serious play for the Apopka native.
(Joe is honestly waiting for word to seep out of One Buc Palace that the Bucs like Markees Watts.)