Bucs Make First Cuts
August 24th, 2025
Gone.
[UPDATE: 2:17 p.m.] The cuts have begun.
One unsurprising names is on the Bucs’ first releases as the team needs to shave its roster down to 53 by Tuesday afternoon..
The other is a bit surprising.
Greg Auman of FOX Sports has a list of four players launched. Two of those Bucs fans have heard of: Shilo Sanders and José Ramirez.
Is the release of Sanders a surprise? He was very much a bubble player and in his last chance to impress Bucs types last night, he got run in the first half for throwing a punch.
Not good. Bucs coach Todd Bowles was not very pleased with that stunt. And for a guy who needed to prove he belonged, he did the opposite. Joe liked Sanders and was pulling for him but he sealed his own fate when he threw a punch five feet in front of a zebra.
The other player that mildly surprised Joe is outside linebacker Ramirez.
Ramirez, from Polk County, was drafted in the sixth round in 2023 and had a reputation as a quarterback mauler. He had 20.5 sacks in three seasons at Eastern Michigan.
Ramirez was considered such a good pass rusher in the MAC and such a steal that NFL Network’s stat queen Cynthia Frelund predicted Ramirez would be the best player selected on Day 3 of the 2023 draft.
But as Bowles is wont to do, he took an edge rusher and tried to make him a cover corner. Even Bowles admitted this summer he knows Ramirez can rush the passer, yet this never happened much when people outside of Bucs employees watched. Ramirez had a sack last night and four tackles in the Backup Bowl.
Bucs types raved about Markees Watts and Ramirez giving Tristan Wirfs fits in closed practices where only Bucs employees are able to watch. But these same guys who drove perhaps the best left tackle in football nuts never could get on a field on a Sunday afternoon.
Yes, weird, Joe knows.
[UPDATE: 3:34 p.m.] Desmond Watson has not been cut (yet). Joe got duped by a fake account.
[UPDATE: 1:07 p.m.] Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports receiver Rakim Jarrett is no longer employed by the Bucs.
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