The new trendy topic of concern in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ community is dead money. Dead money has been a fairly normal occurrence for the Buccaneers over the past few seasons. It has been the penalty Tampa has needed to pay for keeping their stars in red and pewter.
The “dead money fear” of 2024 all seemed to originate when social media got a hold of the fact that the Buccaneers could avoid a dead money hit on their 2024 cap if they re-signed Mike Evans before this past Monday. Posts, like the one below, framed the narrative that Tampa Bay signing Mike Evans sooner rather than later could save the team money.