{"id":130403,"date":"2025-06-14T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/130403\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T23:02:11","slug":"buccaneers-ryan-jensen-replacement-needs-a-breakout-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/130403\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers’ Ryan Jensen Replacement Needs a Breakout 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buccaneers’ Ryan Jensen Replacement Needs a Breakout 2025<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Ryan Jensen was injured in training camp in 2023, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a huge hole in the center of the offensive line. Robert Hainsey filled in sufficiently for a season before Jensen retired early in 2024.<\/p>\n

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While Hainsey was a fill-in, he wasn’t thought of as a permanent replacement at center in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

The team took Duke<\/a>‘s Graham Barton with the No. 26 overall pick in 2024, hoping he could live up to the lofty standards at center that Jensen had set in place.\u00a0Barton was a guard in college, but the transition was thought to be an easy one for him due to his raw skills.<\/p>\n

But Barton struggled during his rookie campaign, to the point of grading as one of football’s worst centers in 2024.<\/p>\n

Per Pro Football Focus, Barton graded out to a 55.8, which ranks No. 45 out of 64 qualifying players at his position. He also led all centers with 13 penalties.<\/p>\n

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Look, rookies struggle. We know that. Very rarely does a guy come in – especially along the offensive line – and win battles. Now, take into account that Barton changed positions. While guard and center are similar, they’re not the same.<\/p>\n

So Barton had two distinct disadvantages during his first season in the NFL: being a rookie and playing a new position.<\/p>\n

Barton did, however, grade higher than Hainsey, who is now in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

The former Duke Blue Devil was also the lowest graded player on the Bucs offensive line.<\/p>\n

Left tackle Tristan Wirfs earned an 82.5, left guard Ben Bredeson graded out to a 56.0, right guard Cody Mauch got a 74.6 and right tackle Luke Goedeke earned a 74.2.<\/p>\n

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The upcoming season could be, and should be, a breakout season for Barton.<\/p>\n

He’s earning $14 million on his rookie deal as the No. 26 overall pick in the first round in 2024, and need to improve dramatically.<\/p>\n

Related: Buccaneers Rookie WR Predicted to be Big Factor<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: ‘The Sky’s the Limit!’ Buccaneers Offensive Tackle Praises New Coach<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 14, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers’ Ryan Jensen Replacement Needs a Breakout 2025 originally appeared on Athlon Sports. When Ryan Jensen was injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[22938,211,31184,31183,7,22316,212,21661,6,1482,5418,26541,704,250,2597,2596,13221],"class_list":{"0":"post-130403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-ben-bredeson","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-cody-mauch","11":"tag-duke-blue-devil","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-graham-barton","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-luke-goedeke","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-offensive-line","18":"tag-robert-hainsey","19":"tag-ryan-jensen","20":"tag-tampa-bay","21":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers","24":"tag-tristan-wirfs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114684215017464742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}