{"id":890555,"date":"2026-05-14T00:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/890555\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:27:33","slug":"what-did-cbs-sports-think-of-the-bucs-selection-of-rueben-bain-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/890555\/","title":{"rendered":"What did CBS Sports think of the Bucs selection of Rueben Bain Jr.?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS Sports viewed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>\u2019 selection of Rueben Bain Jr.<\/a> as a strong fit for a defense needing more help up front, particularly against the run and along the edge of the defensive line.<\/p>\n

The evaluation focused on Bain\u2019s physical style of play and immediate ability to contribute, while also acknowledging that Tampa Bay cannot realistically expect a rookie to completely transform the pass rush on his own right away.<\/p>\n

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Tampa Bay needed more disruption after finishing with only 37 sacks in 2025, but the larger issue was the inconsistency of the front throughout stretches of the season.<\/p>\n

Bain should help immediately in run defense because of his strength and play style, which gives Todd Bowles a young EDGE defender capable of holding up physically instead of functioning strictly as a situational pass rusher.<\/p>\n

The bigger question will be how quickly his pass-rush production happens. Tampa Bay already has Yaya Diaby returning in a major role, so the defense does not need Bain to carry the unit alone early in his career.<\/p>\n

What the Buccaneers needed was some new blood in the building on the edge of the line, and they got just that by drafting Bains.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Bucs Wire: CBS Sports evaluates Buccaneers drafting Rueben Bain Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports viewed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u2019 selection of Rueben Bain Jr. as a strong fit for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,3244,1156,7,6,119947,32194,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-890555","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-cbs-sports","10":"tag-defensive-line","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-physical-style","14":"tag-rueben-bain-jr","15":"tag-tampa-bay","16":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","17":"tag-tampabay","18":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116570098490666032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890555","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=890555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}