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The 2025 Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a little less malignant than your typical caste team with 6 White starters and 17 White players on the roster in total. However, 13 of those players, including all of the starters, are slotted in the traditionally caste-approved positions at QB, TE, OL, K, P, and LS. The overall demographics of the team have hardly changed since last year as the exact same 6 White starters are returning, including a 4/5 snow plow OL. In addition, the total number of White players has decreased by 1, from 18 in 2024 to 17 in 2025.
QB Baker Mayfield easily has one of the best stories in NFL history. After a tumultuous first 6 seasons which saw him get caste away from 3 different teams, Mayfield refused to fade into obscurity. Instead, after joining the Buccaneers in 2023, he led them to back-to-back division titles and even won a playoff game against the future Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in 2023. For his efforts he was voted to the Pro Bowl in 2023 and 2024. He is currently the all-time career leader in playoff touchdown percentage and playoff passer rating. Mayfield is one of the few outspoken White players who always advocates for himself no matter what. His pride is not to be humbled, even by the omnipresent caste system. This has earned him the ire of the caste zealots and their lackeys who hate to see a White athlete with confidence and self-esteem, but it also earned him another chance to attain greatness with the Buccaneers.
Early in the 2024 season, WR Ryan Miller was promoted from the practice squad to the active roster. He went undrafted out of Furman in 2023 and sat on the Buccaneers' practice squad for one year. Although a bench player, Miller undoubtedly has the talent to be a starter with his rock solid 6.97 RAS score. This score ranked 930th out of 3,061 WRs from 1987 to 2023, which puts him in the top 30% of WRs in that timespan. In addition, he also caught 12 passes for 128 yards and 2 touchdowns in 2024. The potential is clearly there for him to be a star, but will he be given a fair opportunity to fully realize it and shine like we know he can? Only time will tell. Unfortunately, life in the case system is little more than a waiting game for so many White players.
On defense there are three White backups. NT Greg Gaines and SLB Anthony Nelson are returning, but LILB John Bullock is a new addition. Bullock went undrafted out of Nebraska earlier this year and signed with the Buccaneers as a free agent. A walk-on at Nebraska, he’s a classic “overachiever” in the caste system who is constantly doubted yet constantly produces when given the opportunity. An all too familiar story within the caste system. Nelson’s story is also familiar: a White athlete with great measurables who is continually relegated to a non-starting role. Nelson boasts an incredible 9.48 RAS score and has produced on the field when given the opportunity. Despite these facts he has never been more than a bench player for the team that drafted him in the 4th round of the 2019 NFL draft. That’s the caste system's racial apprenticeship in action.
Although not as malignant as the rest of the NFC South, this year’s Buccaneers team is not a caste-buster by any means. In a league without the caste system, the 2025 Buccaneers would be far and away the blackest team.
Offense:
QB - Baker Mayfield
WR - Ryan Miller
TE - Cade Otton, Payne Durham, Ko Kieft
LT - Charlie Heck
LG - Ben Bredeson
C - Graham Barton
RG - Cody Mauch, Elijah Klein
RT - Luke Goedeke
Defense:
NT - Greg Gaines
LILB - John Bullock
SLB - Anthony Nelson
Special Teams:
K - Chase McLaughlin
P - Riley Dixon
LS - Evan Deckers
Practice Squad:
QB - Connor Bazelak
DE - Adam Gotsis
WR - Garrett Greene
OT - Luke Haggard
S - Jack Henderson
NT - Nash Hutmacher
OT - Tyler McLellan, Lorenz Metz
G - Ben Scott
Number of White Starters: 6
Total number of White players on 53-man roster: 17
Grade: D
QB Baker Mayfield easily has one of the best stories in NFL history. After a tumultuous first 6 seasons which saw him get caste away from 3 different teams, Mayfield refused to fade into obscurity. Instead, after joining the Buccaneers in 2023, he led them to back-to-back division titles and even won a playoff game against the future Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in 2023. For his efforts he was voted to the Pro Bowl in 2023 and 2024. He is currently the all-time career leader in playoff touchdown percentage and playoff passer rating. Mayfield is one of the few outspoken White players who always advocates for himself no matter what. His pride is not to be humbled, even by the omnipresent caste system. This has earned him the ire of the caste zealots and their lackeys who hate to see a White athlete with confidence and self-esteem, but it also earned him another chance to attain greatness with the Buccaneers.
Early in the 2024 season, WR Ryan Miller was promoted from the practice squad to the active roster. He went undrafted out of Furman in 2023 and sat on the Buccaneers' practice squad for one year. Although a bench player, Miller undoubtedly has the talent to be a starter with his rock solid 6.97 RAS score. This score ranked 930th out of 3,061 WRs from 1987 to 2023, which puts him in the top 30% of WRs in that timespan. In addition, he also caught 12 passes for 128 yards and 2 touchdowns in 2024. The potential is clearly there for him to be a star, but will he be given a fair opportunity to fully realize it and shine like we know he can? Only time will tell. Unfortunately, life in the case system is little more than a waiting game for so many White players.
On defense there are three White backups. NT Greg Gaines and SLB Anthony Nelson are returning, but LILB John Bullock is a new addition. Bullock went undrafted out of Nebraska earlier this year and signed with the Buccaneers as a free agent. A walk-on at Nebraska, he’s a classic “overachiever” in the caste system who is constantly doubted yet constantly produces when given the opportunity. An all too familiar story within the caste system. Nelson’s story is also familiar: a White athlete with great measurables who is continually relegated to a non-starting role. Nelson boasts an incredible 9.48 RAS score and has produced on the field when given the opportunity. Despite these facts he has never been more than a bench player for the team that drafted him in the 4th round of the 2019 NFL draft. That’s the caste system's racial apprenticeship in action.
Although not as malignant as the rest of the NFC South, this year’s Buccaneers team is not a caste-buster by any means. In a league without the caste system, the 2025 Buccaneers would be far and away the blackest team.
Offense:
QB - Baker Mayfield
WR - Ryan Miller
TE - Cade Otton, Payne Durham, Ko Kieft
LT - Charlie Heck
LG - Ben Bredeson
C - Graham Barton
RG - Cody Mauch, Elijah Klein
RT - Luke Goedeke
Defense:
NT - Greg Gaines
LILB - John Bullock
SLB - Anthony Nelson
Special Teams:
K - Chase McLaughlin
P - Riley Dixon
LS - Evan Deckers
Practice Squad:
QB - Connor Bazelak
DE - Adam Gotsis
WR - Garrett Greene
OT - Luke Haggard
S - Jack Henderson
NT - Nash Hutmacher
OT - Tyler McLellan, Lorenz Metz
G - Ben Scott
Number of White Starters: 6
Total number of White players on 53-man roster: 17
Grade: D
