2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

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2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season
Owner The Glazer family
General manager Jason Licht
Head coach Todd Bowles
Home field Raymond James Stadium

The 2025 season will be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 50th in the National Football League (NFL), their 12th under the leadership of general manager Jason Licht, their 28th playing their home games at Raymond James Stadium and their 4th under head coach Todd Bowles. They'll enter the season as the four-time defending NFC South champions.

Contents

Draft

2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Draft
RoundSelectionPlayerPositionCollege
1 19
253
384
4TBD
5TBD
6TBD
7TBD

Notes

Staff

Front office
  • Co-owner/president – Darcie Glazer Kassewitz
  • Co-owner/co-chairman – Bryan Glazer
  • Co-owner/co-chairman – Edward Glazer
  • Co-owner/co-chairman – Joel Glazer
  • Co-owner – Avram Glazer
  • Co-owner – Kevin Glazer
  • General manager – Jason Licht
  • Director of football operations – Shelton Quarles
  • Assistant general manager – Mike Greenberg
  • Director of player personnel – Mike Biehl
  • Director of player personnel – Rob McCartney
  • Senior personnel executive – Byron Kiefer
  • Vice president of player engagement – Duke Preston
  • Vice president of football research – Jacqueline Davidson
  • Senior advisor to the general manager – Bruce Arians
  • Director of pro scouting – Shane Scannell
  • Assistant director of pro scouting – Sean Conley
  • Assistant director of pro scouting – Donovan Cotton
  • Assistant director of college scouting – Tony Hardie
Head coaches
Offensive coaches
 
Defensive coaches
  • Defensive line – Vacant
  • Outside linebackers – George Edwards
  • Pass game coordinator/inside linebackers – Larry Foote
  • Cornerbacks – Kevin Ross
  • Safeties – Nick Rapone
  • Assistant secondary – Tim Atkins
  • Defensive assistant – Mike Chiurco
  • Defensive assistant – Rashad Johnson
  • Defensive quality control – Joey Fitzgerald
Special teams coaches
Support staff
  • Senior manager of coaching operations – Sarah Evans
  • Assistant coach – Tom Moore
Strength and conditioning
  • Head strength and conditioning – Anthony Piroli
  • Assistant strength and conditioning – Cory Bichey
  • Assistant strength and conditioning – Chad Wade
  • Assistant strength and conditioning – DeAndre Ward
  • Director of rehabilitation and performance – Maral Javadifar

Coaching staff
Front office
More NFL staffs

Current roster

Quarterbacks (QB)

Running backs (RB)

Wide receivers (WR)

Tight ends (TE)

Offensive linemen (OL)

Defensive linemen (DL)

Linebackers (LB)

Defensive backs (DB)

Special teams

Reserve

Impending free agents (FA)

Restricted free agents (RFA)

Exclusive-rights free agents (ERFA)

As of January 21, 2025. Rookies in italics.

39 active, 20 reserve, 25 free agent(s)

Preseason

The Buccaneers' preseason opponents and schedule will be announced in May, in conjunction with the release of the regular season schedule.

Regular season

2025 opponents

Listed below are the Buccaneers' opponents for 2025. Exact dates and times will be announced in May. [1]

CategoryHomeAway
Division opponents
(NFC South)
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
New Orleans Saints
Conference opponents
(NFC West)
Arizona Cardinals
San Francisco 49ers
Los Angeles Rams
Seattle Seahawks
Conference opponents
(based on 2024 division placement)
Philadelphia Eagles Detroit Lions
Interconference opponents
(AFC East)
New England Patriots
New York Jets
Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins
Interconference opponent
(based on 2024 division placement)
Houston Texans

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References

  1. "2025 Opponents Determined". NFL Football Operations. January 6, 2025. Retrieved January 6, 2025.