{"id":861586,"date":"2026-04-08T21:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:25:15","slug":"todd-bowles-confidante-projects-bucs-will-choose-between-two-linemen-in-round-1-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861586\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles Confidante Projects Bucs Will Choose Between Two Linemen In Round 1 – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tTodd Bowles Confidante Projects Bucs Will Choose Between Two Linemen In Round 1
\nApril 8th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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Joe had a long, private chat with Todd Bowles\u2019 friend and supporter Pat Kirwan last week at the NFL annual meeting in Phoenix. <\/p>\n

Bowles is a regular guest on Kirwan\u2019s show on SiriusXM NFL Radio, and Joe talked to Kirwan one day after Kirwan spent time on and off the air with Bowles.<\/p>\n

So of course Joe had a little extra interest in what Kirwan had to say yesterday about the Bucs\u2019 potential 2026 first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n

Kirwan went through an on-air mock draft exercise and reached Tampa Bay at No. 15., where Kirwan projected the Bucs to be deciding between edge rusher\/defensive tackle prospect Keldric Faulk out of Auburn and DT Peter Woods from Clemson.<\/p>\n

Kirwan went with Woods, who is more of a Calijah Kancey type than a mauling manbeast nose tackle. But Woods also is a guy who just turned 21 and is sure to add to his body. He measured 6-2 1\/2 and 298 pounds at the NFL Scouting combine.<\/p>\n

JoeBucsFan.com draft guru Sean Sullivan has Woods as the top defensive tackle on his board and calls him a Chris Jones clone. \u201cHe just collapses the pockets over and over and over again.\u201d (You can hear Sean\u2019s full breakdown on the Best In Class<\/a> podcast.)<\/p>\n

Faulk is a tweener at this point in his development, and another very young guy. He turns 21 this summer. Faulk measures 6-6, 276 pounds and seems like a guy who would have benefited from another year in college. But he is a freakishly athletic prospect and one that\u2019s more of a project.<\/p>\n

Joe probably wouldn\u2019t draft either guy as high as No. 15, but why is Kirwan feeling the Bucs go that route?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Todd Bowles Confidante Projects Bucs Will Choose Between Two Linemen In Round 1 April 8th, 2026 Joe had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2599,2598,7,6,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-861586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116371202306865470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861586","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=861586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}