{"id":830627,"date":"2026-03-24T06:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/830627\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T06:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:34:15","slug":"pff-if-the-bucs-need-to-trade-up-who-could-be-bait-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/830627\/","title":{"rendered":"PFF: If The Bucs Need To Trade Up, Who Could Be Bait? – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The PFF tribe speaks.<\/p>\n

Joe is a huge fan of Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles. But as Joe has typed for months, Joe isn\u2019t sure how in the world Styles gets past Dallas.<\/p>\n

(Hey, Styles on the board after Dallas at No. 10, funnier things have happened, like a dude whose own father put a video on Twitter of his first-round-pick-graded son in a bong mask. That stunt cost his son tens of millons are dollars. And then there was the time Tristan Wirfs was the fourth offensive tackle picked. Joe\u2019s just sayin.\u2019)<\/p>\n

So if the Bucs are hellbent on getting Styles, they very likely will have to trade up.<\/p>\n

The PFF tribe is looking at each team\u2019s best trade asset if the need to move up happens. For the Bucs, John Kosko says the monthly fee for that would be running back Bucky Irving<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: HB Bucky Irving
Given their lack of other tradable assets, the Buccaneers could consider moving Bucky Irving for draft capital. His strong rookie season makes him an appealing option, and the relative ease of finding productive running backs later in the draft supports the idea.<\/p>\n

With ongoing issues along the offensive line, reallocating value from the running back position could help address more pressing needs.<\/p>\n

Joe doesn\u2019t think trading Bucky is on the table.<\/p>\n

For one, if he returns to his rookie production, Bucky is one of the best backs in the game.\u00a0But Joe is more than confident opposing general managers saw Bucs AC\/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht sign Kenneth Gainwell and bring back Sean Tucker.\u00a0That either tells folks the Bucs think Bucky is damaged goods or something else.<\/p>\n

At best, the Bucs aren\u2019t 100 percent sure Bucky will return to his rookie ways. Otherwise, they probably don\u2019t pay both Gainwell and Tucker.<\/p>\n

Besides, the great Sage of Tampa Bay sports, Ira Kaufman, told Joe in a recent podcast that Licht absolutely should not trade next year\u2019s first-round draft pick. If, Ira said, the Bucs go south this year, that 2027 is going to be very, very valuable in more ways than one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PFF tribe speaks. Joe is a huge fan of Ohio State linebacker Sonny Styles. But as Joe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-830627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116282764001918688","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830627","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=830627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}