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The prodigious Buccaneers signing Tom Brady has emphatically said they don’t expect long-term development from a young quarterback, but on draft night the Tampa Bay front office showed that ‘there was still a semblance of patience in the room The Buccaneers traded a pick and went down the dimly lit but cautious path by selecting offensive tackle Tristan Wirfs at No 13 overall

Loved the selection straight away, tweeting in real time « amazing result for Tampa My OT1 super strong athletic freak Excellent balance of recovery skills & Knows how to reset his hands Finish OT And that’s a natural RT Plug in and use Home Run GRADE: A « 

Not only was Wirfs my OT1, but he finished as my No. 5 overall prospects in the 2020 draft class, seven spots ahead of next offensive lineman (Andrew Thomas) As the Buccaneers were able to disembark from Wirfs even after the exchange, I was forced to devote an entire article on the selection of circuits

It’s really hard to find a loophole in his game, and he’s just come out of a historic combine performance All great athletes aren’t automatically a great NFL player, but most great players are superb athletes With the Wirfs Selection, which is an absolutely perfect fit with huge value, the rapid rebuilding of the Buccaneers roster is complete

Here’s a reminder of the type of specimen playing the right tackle for the Buccaneers this season.We find below Wirfs’ measurements and the combine’s full training, as well as where his performance in each exercise has placed him among the offensive combine tackles for the past 21 years

Really weird stuff And the funny thing – before the combine there were rumbles that Wirfs was going to measure smaller with shorter arms than expected There was a dominant thought that NFL teams would see its official measures and would project it to keep

No Didn’t happen A massive 6ft 4, 320 pound with 34 inch tentacles And he tested like an oversized tight end

But enough on Wirfs as a prospect He was dazzling to start his NFL career His film through just four contests looked like a veteran Pro Bowler returning for his fourth or fifth season in the league The Buccaneers frequently put him on an island, and minus a few hiccups, Wirfs handled anything thrown at him as a Pass Protector It has also opened up huge avenues for ground play

I focused on two colossal battles against top rushers he endured in his first month on an NFL field – against Cameron Jordan in Week 1 and Joey Bosa last Sunday And I was blown away by Wirfs Jordan and Bosa have been elite passer for many years because they are high caliber athletes and know how to win in different ways. But believe it or not, Wirfs got the best out of everyone I’m not kidding I showed how productive Jordan and Bosa were in pure one-on-one situations against Wirfs Stunts, chips and quick screens weren’t counted

Lots to unbox there, but basically Jordan and Bosa were both slightly less effective in those 1v1 clashes with Wirfs than they were in every other situation at the start of this. year It’s an impressive feat for a young offensive tackle in the first quarter of his first season in the NFL

And while Bosa generated three pushes, his other 22 ‘losses’ featured downright dominant Wirfs reps. He wasn’t so overwhelming against Jordan, but there really was only one snap in which the Saints superstar clearly won in a hurry During the handful of times it initially looked like Jordan had won on the point of attack, Wirfs’ athletic gifts allowed him to recover and block the All-Pro before putting pressure on Brady

I’ve grouped together some of Wirfs’ wins against Bosa on TikTok, because of course I have a TikTok and I’m using it for NFL analysis:

## Buccaneers rookie RT Tristan Wirfs had a ton of dominant reps against top EDGE Joey Bosa on Sunday Only 3 pushes allowed in 25 1v1 battles

It’s a glove to play tackle in the NFL today with the number of extremely talented top rushers that there are in the league Wirfs will see plenty of Khalil Mack on Thursday night, and the rusher of The Bears stud’s pass registered 22 taps out of just 134 pass-rush shots leading up to this game, good for a 16 Pressure creation rate of 4%, currently tied for seventh among all edge rushers that rushed the passer at least 75 times at the beginning of week 5

We’ll know soon if Wirfs is up to the challenge, but if his first two encounters with top-notch rushers were any indication, the rookie’s right tackle won’t look like a rookie against Mack on Thursday night Football

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