The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have promoted Kwon Alexander to starting middle linebacker in today's practice, according to Rick Stroud, who specifically called this a promotion. We'll have to wait and see whether that move holds up in the long term, but the Bucs have talked up Alexander ever since drafting him and he had a very good game with the second-string defense on Saturday.
Part of this may be Bruce Carter's doing, who was expected to take on the role of starting middle linebacker. While the free agent signed a four-year, $20.