Evelyn Spytek in September 2014. The daughter of new Bucs director of player personnel John Spytek and his wife, Kristen, died at 21 months following a necessary surgery as a result of the disease. Cytomegalovirus, or CMV. The Spyteks started the National CMV Foundation.
TAMPA — John Spytek was a linebacker at Michigan. He knows what it's like to play with pain.
As the Cleveland Browns' director of college scouting, he drafted six players who made the All-Rookie team. He can identify greatness.
For the past few months, he has arrived and left work in the dark, spending hours in meetings evaluating prospects as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers'new director of player personnel.