7/1/26 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2026 Fantasy Preview: Baker, Egbuka & Bucky Irving | A Look Inside

**Ryan Weiss** (0:00)
Welcome to No Put Intended, presented by Club Fantasy. It is another one of our special episodes, the Look Inside series. All summer long, we are breaking down each and every NFL team, 32 total episodes, one per team, from a fantasy perspective. We're gonna talk about the players we like, the players we don't like, and today we turn our gaze to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, another new offensive coordinator. I believe this makes four years in a row, maybe three years in a row. How is Baker Mayfield and the crew going to handle that? Do we like them for fantasy? Stick with us and find out.
Welcome to No Pun intended, presented by Club Fantasy. It is our Look Inside series, special episodes, all summer long, covering 32 NFL teams. I am your host, Ryan Weiss, for this one. Josh Hudson with me. Josh, take a look at our rankings. We take a look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It should be a good episode.

**Josh Hudson** (1:13)
Yeah, it's my hometown team, even though I'm not a Bucs fan. So, get to hear all the tea from the local sports writers. And yeah, there's a lot to talk about with this team.

**Ryan Weiss** (1:23)
Yeah, eight and nine last year. We're still not quite to the 500 teams yet. They kept Todd Bowles around, but they didn't move around offensive coordinator, which I said, it's been many years in a row. They keep moving offensive coordinators. Normally, it's because they get hired as new head coaches. That didn't happen this time. But Zach Robinson is the new offensive coordinator in Tampa Bay. He spent the last two years as the Falcons offensive coordinator. Josh and I are gonna break down this offense from a fantasy perspective in just a moment. But let's talk about the starting offense. I'm going to give you the starting player and their ADP as of late June, June 25th. That happens to be when we're recording this episode.
These could change by the time you're ready to draft, but we do use underdog because right now, best ball with a little bit of money in the game is probably the most accurate ADP you're going to get. QB1 on this team is Baker Mayfield. Going off of boards as the QB19.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. RB1 is Bucky Irving. He is the RB23. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Kenneth Gainwell, after a surprising year in Pittsburgh, ends up as the RB2 and Baltimore RB36 last season.

**Josh Hudson** (2:22)
Sean Tucker, not Baltimore.

**Ryan Weiss** (2:24)
Oh, did I say? What am I saying?
First of all, it's Pittsburgh, right? Kenneth Gainwell was in... Yeah, wrong AFC North team. My bad, y'all.
Sean Tucker, RB53, Josh and I's favorite. Never going to get on the field. Wide receiver one for this team is Emeka Egbuka. He is going off boards as the wide receiver 20 The real wide receiver one on this team is Chris Godwin. He's going off boards as the wide receiver 42 Jalen McMillan is the wide receiver three. He is wide receiver 60 in Fantasy Drafts. And rookie Ted Hurst is the wide receiver 76 in Fantasy Drafts. And K.Dotten is still the starting tight end. He is the tight end 26 Josh, we got another iteration of the Sean McVay offense. Zach Robinson takes over. And to put it bluntly, Baker Mayfield tends to do well in this offense.

**Josh Hudson** (3:08)
Yeah, you know, it's funny when Liam Cohen took over as the offensive coordinator in 2024 We all talked about Chris Godwin in the Cooper Cup role because he spent time with McVay. Well, guess what? New offensive coordinator, Zach Robinson, also spent time with Sean McVay. And all the talk has centered around Emeka Egbuka in this offense. Just reminding people, last year when we talked about Emeka Egbuka, my comp for him was Robert Woods, who also played with Zach Robinson in Los Angeles with the Rams. Are there patterns here? Just throwing these out here, guys.
Robinson obviously coached the last couple of seasons in Atlanta, hyper-targeted Drake London a lot.

**Ryan Weiss** (3:53)
He's all they had.

**Josh Hudson** (3:54)
I don't know that they're going to do the same thing here, whether that's with Chris Godwin at 30 years old or Emeka Egbuka, who couldn't even catch 50% of the passes thrown his way last year.
But what we did see the first season in Atlanta for Zach Robinson, when they brought in Darnell Mooney, both him and Drake London had over 100 targets. So this offense can support its top two wide receivers. But I think the mistake that some people might be making or assuming when it comes to the upside of Emeka Egbuka is that one of these guys is going to have a 26 to 29% target share. And I just don't see that happening. Godwin, Egbuka, they have very similar skill sets. They can move inside and out. They can block in the running game.