After winning the NFC South and the playoffs for a second consecutive season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers find themselves in a situation where they can stay the course or make a daring or two move in order to take the next step.
The wide key receiver Chris Godwin is about to become a free agent, and there is a lot of doubt as to whether they can afford to keep it. They also need help to improve a defense that ranked 16th in points authorized and 18th in total of the yards authorized in 2024.
Friday evening, they managed to keep one of their most important defenders for at least one more season.
Tampa Bay would have accepted a one -year contract with the second Lavonte David, who was about to become a free agent.
“Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tampa Star, Lavonte David, will add another chapter to her career in 2025 after accepting one -year contract conditions, the team announced on Friday” wrote Jeff Howe and Jelani Scott of athletics.
“The Buccaneers have accepted the conditions with David, which was 35 years old in January, towards a new pact worth $ 10 million with $ 9 million, confirmed a league source. With the longtime second -handed from Bucs in the Giron, David, the organization and the fans of Tampa Bay can now expect what he returns for his 14th and potentially final of the NFL.”
David was considering the retirement of this offseason, but he will return it for at least one more season. He recorded 122 plated (76 solo), 5.5 bags, three forced escapes, six passes defended and nine plated for defeat in 2024, and he is in a way an older state for the team.
He is one of Tampa Bay’s ties with his winner team of the 2020 campaign Super Bowl. While he is trying to enter the class of elite teams in the NFC, he can at least look forward to doing it again in the middle of the field.
David played each of his 13 seasons in the NFL with the Buccaneers. Before that, he was the second big ten of the year in 2011 as a member of the Cornhuskers of Nebraska.
