Sunday, July 23, 2023

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2023 Fantasy Football Projections

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Below you will find our 2023 fantasy football projections for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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QUARTERBACKS

PlayerAtt.Comp.YardsTDINTRushYardsTDPoints
Baker Mayfield471.2292.1332220.2613.1941.6145.61.66212.06
Kyle Trask117.869.5812.84.594.1215.338.30.6150.12

Baker Mayfield: After Tom Brady's (second) retirement, the Bucs find themselves in the unenviable position of having to choose between Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask. Even though Tampa hasn't officially named the starter, it's likely going to be Mayfield, who is on his fourth team in the past 18 months. Mayfield completed 60% of his pass attempts in 2022 for 2,163 yards (6.5 Y/A), 10 touchdowns and eight interceptions over 12 games.

RUNNING BACKS

PlayerAtt.YardsTDRec.YardsTDPoints
Rachaad White212.38815.4145.2341.11.9188.67
Chase Edmonds87.53852.2823.7177.8187.81
Ke'Shawn Vaughn52.5223.11.376.953.80.240.56
Sean Tucker23.297.40.64310.219.64

Rachaad White: With the Buccaneers releasing Leonard Fournette, who is still a free agent, White enters 2023 atop the team's depth chart. As a 2022 rookie, he had 129 carries for 481 yards (only 3.7 YPC) and a touchdown in addition to 50 receptions for 290 yards and two touchdowns. His best game as a runner (22/105) was against the Seattle Seahawks and his new offensive coordinator Dave Canales, who was Seattle's quarterbacks coach last year.

WIDE RECEIVERS

PlayerRec.YardsTDRushYardsTDPoints
Chris Godwin79.6971.75.63.716.70.19173.38
Mike Evans68.91002.76.4000173.12
Russell Gage51.5605.73.7000108.52
Deven Thompkins9.91220.71.510.50.0622.76
David Moore7.297.20.600016.92
Trey Palmer5.876.50.500013.55

Chris Godwin: Godwin has missed multiple games in each of the past four seasons. While he set a career high in targets (142) and receptions (104) in 2022 and has reached the 1,000-yard mark in three of his past four seasons, he set a career low in Y/R (9.8) and his three touchdowns were a non-rookie career low. The downgrade at quarterback from Tom Brady to Baker Mayfield (or Kyle Trask) will impact Godwin, Mike Evans and the team's passing offense overall.

Mike Evans: Evans extended his 1,000-yard streak to his first nine NFL seasons, which beat his own record in 2022. While the targets (127), receptions (77), yards (1,124) and Y/R (14.6) all look good, he had only six touchdowns, a five-year low, and he wasn't consistent throughout the season. A monster Week 17 game (20/207/3) against Carolina ended an 11-game scoring drought (Weeks 5-16). Evans exceeded 59 yards only once from Weeks 9-16. Even if he extends his 1,000-yard streak, there could be plenty of ups and downs throughout the course of the season given the quarterback downgrade.

TIGHT ENDS

PlayerRec.YardsTDRushYardsTDPoints
Cade Otton42.3479.62.900086.51
Ko Kieft14.5153100028.55
Payne Durham2.222.70.10003.97

Cade Otton: Otton had 42 catches for 391 yards and two touchdowns on 65 targets as a rookie in 2022 and he had four catches for 58 yards on seven targets in their playoff loss to the Cowboys. Even if his numbers are better in his second season, he's not much more than a fantasy TE2 in 2023.

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