The Bucs are entering their 50th season since first donning the Bucco Bruce helmet and creamsicle uniforms in 1976. So it’s only fitting that Pewter Report unveils its Top 50 All-Time Bucs list.

The Buccaneers asked yours truly, Scott Reynolds, to provide my Top 50 list to the team for their media poll and I’ve decided to release my rankings to you over the next two weeks in the form of 10 articles – each with five Bucs greats. My list contains 25 Super Bowl champions – either from the 2002 or 2020 teams – as well as nine members of the 2025 team.

Top 50 All-Time Bucs: 46-50
Top 50 All-Time Bucs: 41-45
Top 50 All-Time Bucs: 36-40

So let’s continue with the next five players who make up the Top 50 All-Time Bucs and we’ll finish with the top 5 at the end of this series.

Top 50 All-Time Bucs: 31-35

No. 31 – RT Luke Goedeke
From Bust To Boom – Luke Goedeke’s Rise At Right Tackle

Luke Goedeke’s journey from Central Michigan transfer to the Bucs’ right-side rock is a textbook underdog tale with some serious muscle. Drafted in the second round in 2022 to replace left guard Ali Marpet, who retired suddenly after the 2021 season, the 6-foot-5, 312-pound glass-eater hit Tampa Bay with high hopes.

An athletic right tackle for the Chippewas with a nasty demeanor, Goedeke was a former tight end at Wisconsin–Stevens Point before converting to offensive line where he became a two‑year starter at CMU, earning first‑team All‑MAC honors in 2021. But he started his career in Tampa Bay out of position at left guard due to shorter than ideal arm length, and struggled mightily as a rookie in seven starts.

Bucs RT Luke Goedeke – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

After being benched at midseason, Goedeke emerged at right tackle for the final two games of the 2022 season and showed the team that he could flourish back home at his more natural position. That led to a breakout season in 2023 where he started all 17 games at right tackle. Goedeke’s pass‑pro and run‑block grades surged throughout the season, ranking among league averages.

By 2024, Goedeke took his game to another level despite only starting 13 games due to an early season concussion. According to Pro Football Focus, he played 905 offensive snaps with a 73.7 overall grade, which ranked in the top 30 among all offensive tackles. His pass‑blocking (75.8) and run‑blocking (76.4) grades ranked 34th and 18th out of 140 graded tackles, while allowing just three sacks.

What places Goedeke on this list isn’t just his PFF numbers – it’s the trajectory. Goedeke has Pro Bowls in his future, perhaps in 2025. He’s on the verge of getting a multi-year contract extension that will top $20 million per season.

Goedeke’s real value to the offensive line is that of a tone-setter with his physical play. He’s inherited the enforcer role from former Bucs center Ryan Jensen and wears it like a badge of honor. Goedeke hasn’t played right tackle as long as Demar Dotson has, but he’s doing so at a higher level. The sky is the limit for how high Goedeke’s stock is rising in Tampa Bay.

No. 32 – RT Demar Dotson
From Undrafted Longshot To Nearly A Decade Of Dependability

Demar Dotson’s NFL journey is exactly the sort of under-the-radar saga Pewter Report lives for – an undrafted giant from Southern Miss who turned himself into Tampa Bay’s ironclad right tackle for nearly a decade. At an imposing 6‑foot-9, 315 pounds, Dotson didn’t play offensive tackle until reaching the NFL and carved out a very successful career against all odds.

Signed as an undrafted free agent tryout player in 2009, Dotson didn’t see meaningful action until 2011, when he logged 13 games (two starts). But by 2012, he’d seized the full-time right tackle job, starting 15 of 16 games – and he never looked back. Dotson held that starting role through 2014, even sliding to left tackle briefly in that season due to injuries.

Bucs RT Demar Dotson – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

From 2012–14, he started 46 straight games, which was a testament to his durability. Across his career he racked up 138 games played and 114 starts, with a whopping 6,907 offensive snaps for Tampa Bay over 10 seasons. Dotson never made the Pro Bowl, but he was rock-solid for the Bucs in the trenches as a tenacious run blocker and a reliable pass protector.

Dotson wasn’t re-signed in 2020 as the Bucs drafted Tristan Wirfs in the first round, and he just missed out Tom Brady’s arrival and a long-awaited return to the playoffs and eventually a Super Bowl championship. He spent a final season in Denver and earned about $28 million over his career. Not bad for a former basketball player at Southern Miss who turned into a gridiron great in Tampa Bay.

Dotson’s NFL journey started after the draft was over as a longshot to make the roster, but ended as perhaps the most consistent right tackle in Bucs history prior to the arrival of Wirfs followed by Luke Goedeke.

No. 33 – WR Mark Carrier
The Silent Storm Who Redefined The Bucs’ Air Raid

Mark Carrier’s six seasons in Tampa Bay (1987–1992) were a study in consistent excellence in an era when the Bucs were otherwise mired in mediocrity. The Nicholls State product became the franchise’s first Pro Bowl wide receiver in 1989 and was generally regarded as the Buccaneers’ best wide receiver until the arrival of Mike Evans and later Chris Godwin.

Drafted in the third round, Carrier arrived as a deep sleeper who topped out at 321 receptions and 5,018 yards – numbers that placed atop Bucs history at the time. He averaged 15.6 yards per catch and hauled in 27 touchdowns during those six years.

Former Bucs WR Mark Carrier – Photo courtesy of the Buccaneers

His best season came in 1989 with 86 receptions for 1,422 yards with nine touchdowns, and nine 100-yard games. Those numbers couldn’t be ignored by the NFL and led to a Pro Bowl berth as well as the best season for a Bucs receiver in franchise history at the time.

Carrier still owns the record for most yards in a single game by a rookie, which was 212 against New Orleans during his rookie season. That was also the most receiving yards by any Bucs player in a game until Vincent Jackson put up 216 yards versus the Saints in 2012.

Carrier’s reliability and talent shined despite poor quarterback play and limited team success (28–67 record). After leaving Tampa Bay in 1993, he had stints with Cleveland, then Carolina, an expansion team where he notched another 1,000-yard season and scored the Panthers’ first touchdown in both South Carolina and Charlotte.

A quiet legend, Carrier was a shining light during a dark time in Bucs football history. Now regarded as perhaps the third-best receiver in Tampa Bay lore behind Evans and Godwin, Carrier still ranks among the Top 50 Bucs of all time.

No. 34 – WR Kevin House
House of Speed: Bucs’ Deep‑Threat Pioneer

Kevin House’s run in Tampa Bay was the stuff of highlight reels – fast, fearless, and downright electric. Drafted in the second round in 1980 out of Southern Illinois, the 6-foot-1 speedster immediately made waves on a fledgling Buccaneers offense. From the outset, House had fire in his cleats and burned defensive backs with his blazing speed.

In his rookie year, he notched 24 catches for 531 yards – an average of 22.1 yards per catch. A year later in 1981, House erupted for 56 receptions for 1,176 yards (21.0 avg.) and nine touchdowns.

Over seven seasons in Tampa Bay (1980–86), he hauled in 286 catches for 4,928 yards and 31 touchdowns, which was the most in franchise history at the time and still ranks fourth on the team behind Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Mark Carrier. House led the franchise with an absurd 17.2 yards per catch average – the best-ever for any Bucs receiver. He also recorded two 1,000-yard seasons and became the first Tampa Bay player to hit that milestone.

House wasn’t just consistent, he was explosive. He racked up four of the top 25 longest plays in Bucs history through his big-play prowess. Released during the 1986 season, House closed out his NFL days with the Rams in ’86–’87 and retired with 299 catches, 5,169 yards, and 34 TDs over eight seasons. That stat line puts him among the more productive receivers of his era.

Kevin House defined Bucs receiving in the early 1980s: a lethal deep threat catching bombs from Doug Williams, a milestone achiever, and a franchise cornerstone before the word was even part of the Bucs lexicon.

No. 35 – TE Rob Gronkowski
Gronk In The Gulf: The Wild, Brief Brilliance of Rob Gronkowski in Tampa Bay

Rob Gronkowski’s two-year stint with the Buccaneers was short, loud, and loaded with touchdowns, which is exactly how you’d script it for one of the greatest tight ends in NFL history. When the character known as “Gronk” came out of retirement in April 2020 to reunite with Tom Brady in Tampa Bay, it felt like a power move that primed the Bucs for a Super Bowl. And that’s exactly what happened.

Gronkowski quickly proved he still had gas in the tank – and some skulls to crack in the run game. In his debut Bucs season, he started all 16 games, catching 45 passes for 623 yards and seven touchdowns. But it was the postseason where vintage Gronk reemerged. In Super Bowl LV, he torched Kansas City for six receptions for 67 yards and 2 first half touchdowns. That was his best performance of the year and a clear reminder: Gronk was built for the big lights and big moments.

Bucs TE Rob Gronkowski – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

In 2021, despite missing five games with rib and back injuries, he put up 802 yards on 55 catches – his most since 2017 – with an impressive 14.6 yards per reception. He and Brady looked like they never left Foxborough.

In two seasons with Tampa Bay, Gronkowski played 28 games, caught 100 passes for 1,425 yards and 13 touchdowns. In the playoffs, he added another 17 catches, 226 yards, and three TDs – two of those in the Super Bowl – tying him with Jerry Rice for most career Super Bowl TD receptions (five).

Beyond the stats, Gronkowski brought energy, swagger, and run-blocking nastiness that helped push the Buccaneer offense to new heights. His chemistry with Brady wasn’t just nostalgic – it proved to be lethal.

Gronk retired again for a final time after the 2021 season, leaving behind one last ring, some unforgettable spikes, and a flamboyant personality that reminded Bucs fans what winning – and fun – looked like. As brief as it was, Gronk’s Tampa Bay tour was all-in, all-out, and undeniably legendary.