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Tampa Bay Buccaneers: How Winston’s option affects 2019

From the department of everyone saw this coming, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston had his fifth year option picked up by the Bucs on Tuesday according to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times;

So what does this mean for the Buccaneers?

Well, for starters, their quarterback is getting a huge bump in pay. Winston is slotted to make $8.06 million in 2018 then his option jumps up $13 million to a total of $20.922 million. That salary is fully guaranteed and may just put the Bucs in a little bit of a bind.