The Jaguars announced the addition of three coaching fellows to their staff on Friday.
Ari Confesor, Anthony Gaitor, and Dawson Odoms have joined the team under the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program. They will work with the team for the remainder of the offseason program.
Gaitor played 12 games as a defensive back for the Buccaneers in 2011 and 2012. He is the cornerbacks coach at Florida International.
Confesor is the wide receivers coach at Wake Forest and he has scouting experience with the Chiefs in addition to a series of stops at other colleges. Odoms spent the last four seasons as the head coach at Norfolk State before being relieved of his duties late last year.
Buccaneers rookie safety Shilo Sanders has often been overshadowed by his brother and teammate Shedeur, and his father and coach Deion. But as he competes to make a roster spot in Tampa Bay, Shilo Sanders is saying he’s confident he’ll show he belongs in the NFL.
Shilo Sanders was not selected in a draft that was notable for Shedeur falling all the way to the fifth round. But Shilo says he’s not down about it.
“Well, my take on being disappointed in ‘lows’ -- it’s not really ‘low’ because you can’t change the path and you can’t really do anything about something that already happened,” Sanders said, via Jenna Laine of ESPN. “So I just trust God, and I always end up doing something great so I just know it’s going to happen and whatever’s happening currently is to learn or to grow from.”
Sanders is grateful to the Buccaneers for giving him the opportunity to be great.
“The Bucs was the first team to call and they gave me a chance before anyone,” Sanders said. “So I’m forever grateful to the Buccaneers, and I’m just going to do everything I can to help this team win -- everything in my power to help this team win -- and that’s all I want.”
The Buccaneers are set to add their first player to their Ring of Honor since 2019.
Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports that edge rusher Simeon Rice will be inducted into the group in 2025. Cornerback Ronde Barber was the last player inducted and the Bucs have added former defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and former head coach Bruce Arians since Barber’s induction.
Rice moved from the Cardinals to the Bucs as a free agent in 2001 and helped the team to its first Super Bowl title in 2002. Rice was a first-team All-Pro after recording 15.5 sacks during the regular season and he posted four sacks and three forced fumbles during the team’s playoff run.
The run in Tampa extended through the 2006 season and Rice had 250 tackles, 69.5 sacks, four interceptions, 19 forced fumbles, and an interception during his time with the Bucs.
The Seahawks have warned their season-ticket holders about “excessive reselling.” The Buccaneers have done something more creative to try to prevent it.
The Buccaneers are introducing a “Ticket Buyback” program for season-ticket members, Greg Auman of Fox Sports reports.
It allows season-ticket holders to return tickets back to the team for up to two games in exchange for a credit toward 2026 season-ticket renewal. The buyback window runs the month of June.
In theory, the team then will resell the tickets to Bucs fans.
Lions, Eagles and Commanders fans have traveled well to games in Tampa in recent seasons.
The Bucs will make a limited number of single-game tickets for 2025 available after the schedule is announced tonight at 8 ET.
The Buccaneers announced a number of changes to the team’s football operations staff on Wednesday.
Rob McCartney has been promoted to assistant General Manager and Mike Biehl is now the team’s vice president of player personnel. McCartney was a director of player personnel and is in his 15th season with the team. Biehl, who is in his 12th year in Tampa, also had that title.
The Buccaneers also announced promotions for college scout Jeremiah Bogan, physical therapist Keairez Coleman, college scout Korey Finnie, senior video director Brett Greene, vice president of performance science Dave Hamilton, director of college scouting Tony Hardie, NFS scout Jordan Morrow, senior director of football operations Shelton Quarles, associate athletic trainer Samantha Richter, director of player personnel Shane Scannell, equipment manager Nick Schmetzer, and video director Matt Taylor.
In addition to those promotions, the Buccaneers hired director of football research Zach Beistline and performance dietitian Patrick O’Brien.
