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The recent run of success for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has had its fans forget about the rough sledding they dealt with in the 2010s up to 2020. Winning a Super Bowl helps with that, and a recent run of division titles also doesn’t hurt.
General manager Jason Licht joined the franchise in 2014 and was tasked with turning the team around. His early drafts were not considered successful by any stretch of the imagination, and as Bleacher Report sheds light on his 2016 draft specifically, it came with some historically bad trades.
That trade involved moving up for Roberto Aguayo, a historically accurate kicker for the Florida State Seminoles who proved to be anything but once he came to the NFL.
Kristopher Knox writes, “In the 2016 draft, Tampa made the curious decision to trade up and draft kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round. That’s right, the Buccaneers traded up to draft a kicker in Round 2. The move to No. 59 cost Tampa the 74th and 106th overall selections. In return, the Bucs got 16 games and a 71-percent field-goal rate out of Aguayo, who was waived during the 2017 preseason and hasn’t appeared in a regular-season game since.”
Licht survived that trade and pick of Aguayo, as well as the picks of Vernon Hargreaves and Noah Spence in that same year. By all intents and purposes, it will go down as one of the worst draft classes in recent history.
Credit to Jason Licht, though, it seems he has fixed his methods, and his staff have now mastered their craft. Look no further than the complete roster they have seemingly built in recent drafts.
They say sometimes you have to fall down to get back up. In Jason Licht’s case, he had to fall off Mount Everest to climb back up it.
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