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Pewter Report’s Scott Reynolds answers your questions from the @PewterReport Twitter account each week in the Bucs Mailbag. Submit your question to the Bucs Mailbag each week via Twitter using the hashtag #PRMailbag.  Here are the Bucs questions we chose to answer for this week’s edition.

QUESTION: Where does the new offensive regime see Chris Godwin? One of the reasons it sounds like he played a ton in the slot under Bruce Arians was because they required their slot to be a great blocker. Does the wide zone/overall scheme change move him more to the boundary?

Bucs WRs Chris Godwin and Mike Evans – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

ANSWER: You are correct. Chris Godwin was used primarily as a slot receiver in Bruce Arians’ scheme because of his physicality going across the middle and for his toughness and effectiveness as a blocker in the run game. But in Dave Canales’ scheme, the Bucs will deploy Godwin more as an outside receiver – and not just for predictable wide receiver screens like he ran last year under Byron Leftwich.

Canales will deploy Godwin as the team’s Z receiver (flanker), while Mike Evans will be used primarily as an X receiver (split end) as always. However, Canales will move Godwin around the formation to play Z and in the slot. He plans to do the same thing with Evans, playing him in the slot in addition to playing flanker. Both Tyler Lockett and D.K. Metcalf were utilized that way in Seattle – playing multiple receiver spots to create favorable matchups in the passing game.

Evans and Godwin are both good blockers in the run game and will be focused on perimeter blocking when not used in the slot. The hope with Godwin not camping out in the slot on a down-in and down-out fashion is that he can stay healthier and avoid injuries and getting banged up. Godwin hasn’t played a complete season since 2018 and has missed 11 games over the past four seasons. Last year, he missed two games due to a hamstring injury.

QUESTION: Which Bucs UDFA do you believe has the best chance of securing a roster spot? Any predictions?

Bucs S Kaevon Merriweather – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

ANSWER: I actually think there will be several undrafted free agents making the Bucs’ 53-man roster this year. But if I had to make some serious predictions, I would start with safety Kaevon Merriweather. The Bucs are awfully high on him and were thrilled with his offseason despite the fact that he’s mostly known for his physicality, and the pads don’t come on until after the first three days of training camp. The fact that the Bucs are thin at safety certainly helps Merriweather’s cause.

Other undrafted free agents that I believe have a chance to make the team include running back Sean Tucker, if he is cleared to practice soon from a heart condition that was diagnosed at the NFL Scouting Combine, wide receiver Rakim Jarrett and cornerback Keenan Isaac – a trio of my training camp sleepers. The Bucs only have four receivers set on their depth chart with Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Russell Gage and Trey Palmer, a sixth-round draft pick who impressed during the offseason. Jarrett has a good chance of sticking as WR5.

Tampa Bay is also thin at cornerback, with Carlton Davis III, Jamel Dean, Zyon McCollum, Dee Delaney and Josh Hayes on the depth chart. That gives Isaac a chance to make it if he shines on special teams. In all, I would forecast between four to six undrafted free agents making Tampa Bay’s 53-man roster this season.

QUESTION: Do you believe the Bucs will add any more free agents prior to the regular season? Hoping they leave the RB room alone and give Rachaad White a chance to shine.

Former Bucs DL Will Gholston – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

ANSWER: It’s possible. The Bucs are very young and shallow in terms of experience at several positions, including running back, defensive tackle and safety. I don’t blame the team for wanting to see what they have first in their rookies and young, developing players first during training camp before signing a veteran to add experience and depth. That’s been a common practice for the Bucs under the leadership of general manager Jason Licht.

Last year, the Bucs added veteran Carl Nassib in the middle of August to help the team’s depth when Cam Gill went on injured reserve with a season-ending foot injury in the first preseason game. A few years prior, the Bucs signed running back Leonard Fournette in the first week of September prior to the start of the 2020 regular season. So adding another veteran or two seems logical at some point, given Licht’s track record. But first, the Bucs need to extend Mike Evans’ contract to create some salary cap room.

I could see the Bucs add another veteran running back to the mix only if Sean Tucker doesn’t receive medical clearance to participate in camp or one of the other backs gets injured. If the young Bucs safeties falter, or if there is an injury at the position, Tampa Bay might re-sign veteran Logan Ryan. If the Bucs need another veteran defensive tackle, Will Gholston is unsigned, lives in Tampa and is on speed dial.

QUESTION: I forget, SR, is the media allowed to share information the entire Bucs camp practices?

Pewter Reporters Matt Matera, Adam Slivon, Bailey Adams, JC Allen, Scott Reynolds and Josh Queipo (kneeling)

ANSWER: The media is only allowed to do live tweeting during the entire Bucs training camp practices when the fans are present. The reason is that Bucs fans in the stands can record video and pictures throughout practice, so the team really can’t tell the media not to film when a fan five feet away from us can do it and post it on the Internet.

However, when the fans aren’t present, such as the first three days of training camp this year, the media can only film and take pictures and live tweet for about the first 20-30 minutes of practice during individual practice periods. But the media is allowed to cover practice and we can report on what we see – outside of trick plays and specific formations – we just can’t live Tweet it. (Or is it now live X it with the rebrand?)

As always, Pewter Report will have wall-to-wall Bucs camp coverage on PewterReport.com. Plus, we’ll have additional video content on our Twitter and Facebook social media channels, as well as our PewterReportTV YouTube channel with interview clips, YouTube Shorts and Pewter Report Podcasts.