In 1983, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers used the 45th overall pick in the NFL draft to grab Baylor center Randy Grimes. Grimes got a handful of starts at several positions in his first two seasons before taking over for long-time Buc Steve Wilson at center in 1985. Grimes would then hold down that center job for the next six years, starting all but one non-strike game before handing it over to Tony Mayberry. A fourth-round pick out of Wake Forest in 1990, Mayberry would in turn start every contest for nine straight years before retiring.
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Since then, beginning in 2000, the Buccaneers have used just three picks on players who were identified as centers (using the Draft History website as the source) on draft weekend, and none of them have started a single game at that position.