The Bucs Beat is reporting the Tampa Bay Bucs have released a number of players one day after completing it's 2007 NFL Draft. Of the bunch, CB Juren Bolden is the most heralded athlete/contributer, the others cut consist of:

CB Blue Adams
S Tra Boger
LS Adam Johnson
DT Kenny Smith

Bolden shouldnt be missed with the additions of CB Sammy Davis, CB Phillip Buchanon, and recently Drafted CB Marcus Hamilton. Blue Adams was a contributer on Special Teams, but with the new additions via the Draft, he became expendable. Boger, Johnson, and Smith were all signed this off-season, thus we'll never know what we lost, heh. Good Luck fellas!!

Juran Bolden, CB, along with a few other players of no note, was released from the team today to make room for FA's they plan to sign that weren't drafted. With the Bucs now stacked at the corner position, the Bucs probably felt that Bolden was no longer in their future plans. Remember that they now have Barber, Kelly, Buchannon, Davis, Cox, Zemaitis, and their draft pick Hamilton (along with some guy named Hendricks). Needless to say, the backfield was busting at the seams. The Bucs aren't likely to go into the season with more than 5, maybe 6 corners.

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From the Message Boards:

Jerramy Stevens will be a work for the coaching staff.  If there is one thing most disappointing about the Gruden offense is the lack of using tight ends to run seam routes.  I think it’s a little bit handicapped because with the crappy offensive line the Bucs have had, the tight ends are used more as blockers than as receivers.

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FIRST and FOREMOST Gaines was a BUCS FAN Growing Up! Now that THAT is out in the OPEN . . .

Gaines Adams is a 6'5 260 POUND 23 year old ROOKIE and Your Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1st Round Draft Pick from Clemson University ... Gaines will be 24 years old when the season begins. If the Video below doesnt get you geeked up that Gaines is on our team, especially toward the end where he strips the ball from the field goal holder and rumbles down field for the 60 yard TOUCHDOWN, then you need serious HELP.

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Wasn't this supposed to be the most important offseason in Buccaneer history? It seems like last weekend's draft would have made a bigger impression on me if it was. Don't get me wrong, I think the Bucs got better in a lot of defensive areas. But it just all seemed so... average. Here's what I currently think of each player they picked and I'll follow it up with some general notes.

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Over 8,800 Fans over at ESPN's Sportsnation have graded Tampa Bay's NFL Draft. Just about 40% feel the Bucs deserve a B grade. About 28% feel the Draft was worthy of a C grade. 15% thought it was an A, right . . . You can VotE and grade the Bucs Draft as well, click here.

Bucs first-round pick Gaines Adams reacted with shock when he learned from watching television that his admission to trying marijuana was leaked just days prior to the draft.

Adams, who was introduced this morning in Tampa, said the release of information from supposed confidential interviews hit him hard not only because of its potential impact on his draft status, but because he cares deeply about a reputation he said he has worked for.

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Chris Harry and Mike Huguenin of the Orlando Sentinel have graded the NFC South's NFL Draft. Here's how they see it:

Atlanta - C
Carolina - B
New Orleans - C+
Tampa Bay - C+

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Thanks to everyone who entered the First Annual Bucstats.com Draft Contest, sponsored by It's Bucs and Bull Heaven. And for those of you who didn't enter... it was there for the taking. One well-placed Arron Sears guess would have won it.

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