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<\/a><\/p>\nDespite missing a game this season due to injury, tight end Cade Otton ran the fourth-most routes in the NFL at his position.<\/p>\n
He was an extremely busy man in the passing game for a Bucs team that ranked 15th in the league in pass attempts. <\/p>\n
Otton was a top-15 tight end in both receptions and receiving yards among tight ends. But he hauled in just 72.8 percent of his targets, which was poor at the position.<\/p>\n
The Bucs can do better than the 2022 fourth-round pick. Will Tampa Bay make moving on from Otton a priority? He\u2019s a pending free agent and his market is tough to assess, but it seems he could fetch around $7 million per year.<\/p>\n
Todd Bowles talked about his tight ends room during his final show of this season on the Buccaneers Radio Network.<\/p>\n
Bowles lamented the loss of Ko Kieft, who was lost for the season after a Week 3 leg injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, Ko was our main blocker when he got hurt, but Cade is our do-everything guy,\u201d Bowles said.<\/p>\n
Joe was surprised to hear Kieft called \u201cour main blocker\u201d because he only played an average of 7 snaps a game on offense last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bowles referred to Payne Durham as \u201cvery tough\u201d and sounded like a coach eager for Devin Culp to be more well-rounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cDevin is probably our most athletic. He\u2019s just gotta get a little better in the run\u00a0game so we can use him. So it\u2019s promising going forward,\u201d Bowles said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to imagine Bowles will want to move on from Otton unless the Bucs invest significant resources at the position. Otton is rather durable and certainly is a legitimate starter. Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht might have a different view.<\/p>\n
Joe would embrace a new offensive coordinator coming in and being eager to overhaul the position \u2014 or a guy who actually wants to use Durham and Culp as weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles Evaluates Tight End Position January 13th, 2026 Despite missing a game this season due to injury,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2599,2598,7,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-674713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115889422010345055","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674713","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=674713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}