2020 NFL Draft: Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7-round mock

Fifth Round

After going with a cornerback at the end of the fourth round, the Buccaneers will address the safety position with the No. 161 pick in the fifth round. Those he is not Temple Tough, safety Jared Mayden of the Alabama Crimson Tide will do just fine in pewter and hopefully creamsicle.

Mayden is 6-feet and 205 pounds. He is coming off a senior season with the Crimson Tide where he had 59 total tackles, four interceptions for 54 yards and three pass breakups. Though it took a while for him to crack the deep secondary rotation in Tuscaloosa, Mayden got better every year on campus and could vie for playing time in Todd Bowles’ Tampa Bay defense in 2020.

Sixth Round

Even though the Buccaneers were able to win the Tom Brady sweepstakes, it would serve the franchise to draft a quarterback to back him up. Though they could go with someone like Jake Fromm out of Georgia in the second or third round, the pick here at No. 194 in the sixth round has to be Tyler Huntley out of the University of Utah.

During Huntley’s senior season in Salt Lake, the Utes made it to the Pac-12 Championship and nearly to the College Football Playoff for the first time in school history. He leaves Kyle Whittingham’s program with a 67.2 career completion percentage for 7,351 yards, 46 touchdowns and 20 interceptions. He also had 1,146 career rushing yards on 389 carries for 16 touchdowns.

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Seventh Round

Tampa Bay does not have a seventh-round pick this year. This stems from a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles where the Buccaneers sent wide receiver DeSean Jackson back to the City of Brotherly Love. This pick now belongs to the Atlanta Falcons, as the Eagles dealt this seventh-round pick to the Dirty Birds for linebacker Duke Riley in the Johnathan Cyprien trade last season.