Chris Godwin has said he wants to return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

If the Buccaneers don't sign the receiver to a long-term deal, the franchise tag is a possibility for Godwin.

"Yeah, I mean, the way I look at it, similar to like a lot of guys. Obviously, we all want to have long-term security, we all want to be able to take care of the people that we love So, that's the ideal situation. But, you know, a franchise tag is not something that I can control. If that's what keeps me here, then that's what it is," Godwin told the NFL Network.

"And I'll play on it and go back to war with my guys. Like I said, I love it here in in Tampa, I love what we have building and I would love to stay."

Godwin, a 2017 third-round pick, played out a four-year rookie contract in which he garnered $3.2 million over four seasons.

Jason Licht has indicated that an extension is possible for Tom Brady coming off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Super Bowl victory.

Before the Super Bowl, Bruce Arians said he wouldn't be surprised if Brady signed an extension to keep him under contract beyond the 2021 season.

"It's a possibility," Licht told The Rish Eisen Show. "He certainly didn’t look like he slowed down any this year. That’s a possibility and we’ll have to see how that goes. ... It appears that he really had a good time this year winning the Super Bowl. Likes our organization, likes our coaches, likes our head coach and ownership and we certainly love him. Usually when you have those two things going for each other, it’s a match made in heaven so we’d like to keep this going."

Brady is set to make $25 million during the 2021 season with a cap hit of $28.375 million after earning $3.375 million in incentives.

The family of late wide receiver Vincent Jackson told the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office that it believes he was suffering from chronic alcoholism and concussions at the time of his death.

Jackson was found dead at a Tampa Bay-area hotel on Monday. He had just turned 38 years old and left behind a wife and four children.

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesperson told ESPN there has been no indication of foul play and that "it will take a completed autopsy report and toxicology report to know with certainty what caused his death."

Former NFL wide receiver Vincent Jackson was found dead Monday in a Florida hotel room.

The body of the 38-year-old Jackson was found at approximately 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday at the Homewood Suites in Brandon, Florida.

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office will determine the cause of death.

According to hotel staff, Jackson checked into the hotel on Jan. 11 and had been staying in a room since that date.

Tom Brady has no plans to retire, but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have an eye on who his successor might be.

Jason Licht believes Blaine Gabbert, Brady's backup this past season, could eventually take over for Brady.

"First of all, I love his energy," Licht said. "I've really gotten close to Blaine this year just being on the sidelines. He's a really smart guy but he is one guy, my scouts and I talk about this a lot, he's just one guy that I love to watch throw every day in practice because he has got a cannon. He's very accurate with his throws as well and he can just really whistle them in in tight windows. If he had been forced to play, he played in the Detroit game, but if he had been forced to play more I think that he would have really opened a lot of people's eyes about how talented he is, especially being in the same system for a couple of years."

Gabbert, 31, appeared in four games this past year, completing 9-of-16 passes for 143 yards and two touchdowns.

Shaq Barrett wants to stay with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and is now making it clear that he wants to get paid.

"I'm most definitely looking forward to getting a long-term deal done," Barrett told Adam Schein of SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio.

"I feel like it's time for me to break the bank now, and I most definitely want to do that to be able to set my family up better and most definitely going to keep producing so it's not like anything is going to fall off. I still think I got a lot left in the tank. I'm still getting better, actually. I'm still learning like just still learning like week in, week out. And there's like, as you can see as the season progressed like. ... I ended the season playing the way that I wanted to play. And you can see that I did progress throughout the season and I'm still progressing."

Operating under the one-year franchise tag in 2020, Barrett made $15.828 million. He's entitled to a 20-percent bump if tagged again in 2021. That's $18.99 million.

Tom Brady will undergo a minor surgical procedure on his knee this offseason, according to a source.

The surgery isn't a result of a recent injury and Brady has been planning the procedure for months, the source said. It's not clear which knee will be operated on.

Brady was not listed on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' injury report all season.

There was a very real chance Bruce Arians didn't coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory this season.

Arians revealed that his wife and kids urged him to consider opting out of the 2020 season because they were concerned about him contracting COVID-19.

"Some people said, "Dad, you need to opt out this year," and I was like, 'No way. I'll risk it. It's going to be a magical year,'" Arians said.

The 68-year-old said he was extremely careful during the season.

"I went to work, came home," he said. "We haven't gone out to dinner since July. We have all these open-air restaurants here, but I just couldn't risk it. Both of us are high risk."

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will celebrate their 31-9 Super Bowl LV victory over the Kansas City Chiefs with a boat parade.

The boat parade will run on the Hillsborough River, which is along the downtown waterfront, and will begin Wednesday at 1 p.m. Fans will be able to view the parade at various spots along the river, and masks will be required.

The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated their Stanley Cup win in a socially distant boat parade in September.

Super Bowl LV drew a total audience of 96.4 million viewers.

The total viewership came across all platforms, including the CBS Television Network, CBS Sports and NFL digital properties, Buccaneers and Chiefs mobile properties, Verizon Media mobile properties and ESPN Deportes television and digital properties.

The most watched Super Bowl was in 2015 when the New England win over Seattle drew 114.4 million viewers.