The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will release linebacker Shaquil Barrett, according to sources.

Barrett had a $15.04 million option bonus due next month and will be a salary cap charge of just under $14.2 million for 2024.

Barrett, 31, was a key contributor on Tampa Bay's championship-winning defense in 2020, recording three sacks against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game and another sack against the Kansas Chiefs in Super Bowl LV.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are working to retain Mike Evans, who is slated to enter free agency next month, according to a report.

It was assumed that Evans would hit free agency after the Buccaneers did not offer him a contract extension before the start of last season.

Evans led the NFL with 13 touchdown catches in 2023, while also making history as the first player to post 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first 10 seasons. 

Lavonte David hopes to remain with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the remainder of his career.

The linebacker signed a one-year deal with the Bucs last offseason. David has spent his entire 12-year career with the organization.

"Of course, I would want to do that. I would want to stay a Buc for the rest of my career as long as I play," David said. "I do want to retire a Buc, but, you know, it's just got to be a mutual thing."

David turned 34 in January.

Mike Evans is one step closer to exploring a new team after the wide receiver did not reach a contract extension with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday.

Evans' current contract doesn't expire until March 11, but the Buccaneers could've saved roughly $7.4 million against their 2024 salary cap by extending the receiver before Monday's deadline.

He could still sign a new deal with the Buccaneers, but any incentive to do so has expired.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers put together a playoff run despite low expectations in their first season of the post-Tom Brady era.

The team will have some decisions to make with Baker Mayfield's one-year deal expiring and Mike Evans set to hit free agency.

"I think he loves it here," advisor Bruce Arians said of Mayfield. "The job he did, I mean, the job Todd [Bowles] did with the new coordinator [Dave Canales], new play-caller, new quarterback and the ups and downs. To be the only NFC team to go to the playoffs four years in a row? That's very satisfying, for me especially.

"To watch everything as the season unfolded, and then to come in December and January to really put it together ... I mean, we came really, really close. One drive away from the (NFC) championship game. I loved the job Todd did and Baker did."

Arians also believes the Buccaneers will bring back Evans, who just completed his 10th consecutive 1,000-yard season.

Baker Mayfield completed 9 of 13 passes for 102 yards and two touchdowns in the flag-football affair before 55,709 at Orlando's Camping World Stadium. The NFC won with a cumulative 64-59 score, stopping the AFC's fourth-down play at the 3-yard line with 4 seconds remaining.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have agreed to terms with Liam Coen as their new offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN on Saturday.

The Bucs completed interviews with their candidates early Friday morning, and Coen publicly emerged as the favorite. But sources said then that details were still being worked out with the University of Kentucky as Coen was still under contract as the Wildcats' offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will hire Liam Coen as offensive coordinator.

Coen has alternated between working for the Los Angeles Rams and the University of Kentucky over the past few seasons. 

Coen was with the Rams in 2022 when Baker Mayfield finished the season with the team. 

The Bucs lost offensive coordinator Dave Canales to the Carolina Panthers this offseason. 

Robert Kraft has admitted that letting Tom Brady leave the New England Patriots in 2020 was a mistake.

The Patriots let Brady sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in free agency. The quarterback won a Super Bowl in his first season away from the Patriots.

New England has gone 29-38 since Brady left.

Kraft had a conversation with Tom Brady, Sr. in September in which he admitted the mistake.

"He just said, 'I made a mistake.' He told us that back in September," Brady Sr. said. "We don't all make the right decisions, but he's made a hell of a lot of good ones over the years. But I know that it galls him that Tommy went elsewhere and won. Not that he won, but that he won after Bill (Belichick) said he was done."

Tom Moore will return to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an assistant next season, according to a report.

Moore, 85, just completed his 45th season of coaching in the NFL.

He just completed his fifth season with Tampa Bay as a senior offensive analyst.