{"id":664111,"date":"2026-05-25T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664111\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:14:11","slug":"rueben-bain-was-viewed-as-a-tweener-by-other-teams-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/664111\/","title":{"rendered":"Rueben Bain Was Viewed As A “Tweener” By Other Teams – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why he fell.<\/p>\n

The NFL is a risk-averse league. And Joe gets it.<\/p>\n

For example: It\u2019s really, really easy for any fan to holler that the Bucs ought to trade draft picks for a player, or that the Bucs should pick Player-X with a first-round pick.\u00a0But if the move doesn\u2019t work, do fans risk getting run from a multi-million dollar job over it? No, but a general manager might.<\/p>\n

Risk aversion may very well have been the reason why Rueben Bain fell to the Bucs at No. 15.<\/p>\n

Charlie Campbell of Walter Football called his NFL sources to ask why Bain fell to the Bucs since just about everyone thought he was a top-10 pick, maybe better.<\/p>\n

Campbell found out many general managers picking ahead of the Bucs were either spooked by Bain\u2019s profile of not neatly fitting as a defensive end or a defensive tackle, and yes, the dreaded short arms.<\/p>\n

In short (not in arms), NFL shot-callers with the top-14 picks weren\u2019t willing to get into hot water<\/a> with their owners over Bain.<\/p>\n

Sources from multiple teams provided some differing reasons. One, a few sources felt that Bain slid just because of the team\u2019s need and preference in the top 14. Sources from a couple of teams that passed on Bain said they had him a bit lower than the media consensus. During the season, we [heard] some teams saw him as a tackle\/end tweener, and they did not see him as a true top-10 talent. Those factors combined to have Bain go lower than the media expected.<\/p>\n

Just after the draft, Dull Patrick interviewed ESPN NFL analyst Louis Riddick, the former Eagles suit, and Patrick wanted to know how in the world Bain could fall to the Bucs.<\/p>\n

Riddick essentially said what Campbell typed: general managers are loathe to take gambles.<\/p>\n

If they ignore data \u2014 and NFL owners are generally data people reared in the business world \u2014 and then they could face an enraged owner wanting to know why the general manager ignored intel and threw away millions of the owner\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

There are only 32 jobs titles of GM in the world of the NFL, Riddick noted, and general managers won\u2019t deliberately grease the wheels for their owners to run them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why he fell. The NFL is a risk-averse league. And Joe gets it. For example: It\u2019s really, really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5961,5960,349,99,1824],"class_list":["post-664111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}