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Combine Notes: Deeper Draft Bodes Well

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have to turn their draft board up to 11 this year.

Allow me to explain. The titular band from the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap famously produced a set of amps on which the top number on the dial was not 10 but 11, because, “that’s one louder, isn’t it?”

Meanwhile, the walls of the Draft Room at One Buccaneer Place are covered with boards displaying the available prospects ranked in a number of different ways. The traditional board lists the various positions (QB, RB, etc.) horizontally along the top and a numerical evaluation scale (8.