The Bucs have seven selections, including the No. 9 pick, in the 2016 NFL draft to be held Thursday-Saturday in Chicago. Tampa Bay has its own pick in each of the first six rounds. The team’s seventh-round pick was packaged with S Dashon Goldson in a trade for Washington’s sixth-round pick, giving the Bucs two picks in the sixth round. In the week leading up to the draft, The Tampa Tribune will examine the team’s needs at one position per day.
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Mike Evans has developed into one of the league’s premier deep threats, but 33-year-old Vincent Jackson has caught only five TD passes in the past two seasons and his streak of four consecutive 1,000-yard seasons ended in 2015.