The Tampa Bay Buccaneers couldn’t enter the 2015 season with the offensive line they had going into their preseason opener against the Minnesota Vikings. They needed to add another reasonably skilled, veteran player.
With Ali Marpet making inroads towards supplanting Garrett Gilkey as the team’s starting right guard by Week 1 and Donovan Smith already being entrusted to protect Jameis Winston’s blind side, the Buccaneers needed some sort of insurance policy just in case one, or both, of these rookies faltered early on.
The Bucs needed to sign someone because Pamphile and Patrick Omameh weren’t going to cut it in Dotson’s absence.