The Bucs had a premature exit from the 2024 postseason due to a 23-20 loss to the Commanders in the Wild Card playoffs and are now firmly in the offseason mode. Over the course of the next several months Tampa Bay will need to assess its current roster and see where and how it can make improvements while limiting losses in an effort to bolster the team for a deeper run in the postseason in 2025.

Bucs brass: Jason Licht, John Spytek and Mike Greenberg – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

General manager Jason Licht and assistant general manager Mike Greenberg, if he stays, will have big decisions to make on some pending free agents as well as some potential salary cap casualties.

In a series of videos on the PewterReportTV YouTube channel, I plan to help you, the Bucs fan, understand the team’s 2025 roster from start to finish. That will include a deep dive on the current roster complete with roster locks, bubble players and pending free agents.

I’ll walk you through possible salary cap hits, restructures, extensions and re-signings. We will go in-depth in how much cap room the Bucs can create along with a more likely scenario of how much cap space they likely will create.

And eventually we will look at potential free agent additions and even potential trade scenarios that could help Tampa Bay level up in 2025.

Video 1: Bucs 2025 Roster Breakdown

In the first video in the series, I will take a look at the Bucs players under contract for 2025 at this moment in time, broken up by who is a roster lock and who is a bubble player that will be fighting for roster spots come August/September. I will also look at the current salary cap situation the Bucs are in, breaking down the projected 2025 NFL salary cap, dead cap hits from past contracts, Tampa Bay’s rookie draft pool and carryover cap from 2024.

I also provide projections for which internal free agents the Bucs are more and less likely to try and retain with new contracts along with APY (average per year) salary estimates for what those deals could look like.

You can catch the entire video, complete with color-coded Google Sheets cells here or by clicking the video below.