Buccaneers could get six starters back from injury after bye

Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers haven't been hit hard with catastrophic injuries this season, but smaller issues have kept out some key players for multiple games. With them having a bye week, this is the perfect time for some of those players to get healthy and back on the practice field.

In all, the Bucs could have as many as six starters back after the bye week, a significant boost to a team that could use them. Let's go through them, one by one.

This is the big one. Dotson sprained his MCL in the preseason and will have missed two months by the time he's back. Lovie Smith was cautiously optimistic about Dotson on Monday, but you can never read too much into anything…