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Grizzard

Taking over from Liam Coen after spending the year designing Tampa’s third-down looks, Grizzard said “continuity will remain essentially the same.” The team will use the same verbiage, formations, and motions as it did last year. Mike Evans told reporters “it’s going to be similar to what we’ve run.” An unchanged offense in Tampa Bay would be good news for Baker Mayfield, Bucky Irving, Evans and company. There will undoubtedly be new challenges for Grizzard, but we should be expecting a similar shape of production from a fantasy perspective.

The move allows the Buccaneers to preserve schematic continuity, with Grizzard having spent 2024 helping former OC Liam Coen orchestrate the team’s highly successful passing offense. The 34-year-old Grizzard is rapidly ascending through the NFL’s coaching ranks and could be up for head coach consideration within two or three seasons.

Grizzard entered the NFL coaching ranks as an offensive quality control coach with the Dolphins in 2017. He switched to the overall quality control coach for the 2019 season before handling wide receiver coach duties in 2020-2021. He then returned to the offensive quality control coach role when Mike McDaniel was hired as head coach in 2022. The Buccaneers later brought him over to fill the pass game coordinator role in 2024. The Buccaneers’ passing offense was highly successful this season and the team no doubt values the potential schematic continuity Grizzard offers following Liam Coen’s departure.