34 Tryout Players Round Out Bucs Rookie Minicamp Roster

Buccaneers
09 May 2025, 17:30 GMT+10

The Bucs will have a total of 61 players on the field for this weekend's minicamp, including six draft picks, 15 rookie free agents, six first-year men and 34 players who are trying out in hopes of earning a spot on the 90-man roster

Scott Smith

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will hold their 2025 rookie minicamp this weekend, with the first practice on Friday afternoon. There will be a total of 61 players participating, including 34 who are in for the weekend on tryout contracts. Typically, a few tryout players are impressive enough during the minicamp to be signed subsequently to the 90-man offseason roster, as was the case last year with cornerback Andrew Hayes and running back Ramon Jefferson.

Among this year's tryout players are some instate prospects in the likes of Florida State safety Davonte Brown and Florida defensive lineman Joey Slackman. The Bucs' scouting department also cast a wide net to to flesh out their minicamp roster, attracting players from such schools as South Dakota State (linebacker Adam Bock), Mount Union (running back Tyler Echeverry), Augustana (cornerback JayVian Farr), Saginaw Valley State (linebacker Micah Cretsinger) and Nebraska-Kearney (tight end Tuni Fifita).

One of the most notable Buccaneers to get his first NFL shot as a tryout player was wide receiver Adam Humphries, who was not immediately signed by any team after the 2015 draft. The former Clemson standout instead came to Tampa Bay's rookie minicamp for a tryout and then earned a spot on the training camp roster and then on the 53-man active roster, as he survived the final cuts. Though he spent some time on the practice squad as a rookie, Humphries was fully entrenched on the roster by 2016 and would go on to catches 219 passes for 2,329 yards and nine touchdowns over four seasons with the Buccaneers. He later earned a lucrative deal with Tennessee in free agency.

Four of the 34 players participating in the Bucs' weekend camp on tryout contracts have previous NFL experience. Tackle Connor Galvin spent last season on injured reserve in Detroit after playing one game for the Lions as a rookie in 2023; cornerback Azizi Hearn was most recently on the New York Giants' practice squad late last season; safety Gervarrius Owens was a seventh-round draft pick of the Giants in 2023 who spent much of last season on the practice squad in Tennessee; and running back Owen Wright was with the Baltimore Ravens the last two seasons, on the practice squad in 2023 and on injured reserve in 2024. One notable veteran tryout who earned a spot on the roster in recent years was wide receiver David Moore, who caught 35 passes for 428 yards and four touchdowns for the Buccaneers in 2023, playoffs included.

The rest of the roster for the rookie minicamp consists of the team's six selections in the 2025 NFL Draft plus the 15 undrafted free agents who officially signed with the team on Thursday and six first-year players who were already on the roster. Here is the full list of the 61 minicamp participants:

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