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<\/a><\/p>\nSecond-round pick rookie linebacker Josiah Trotter.<\/p>\n
So projected starting Bucs inside linebacker Josiah Trotter turned 21 years old three weeks ago following two seasons of college football.<\/p>\n
Josiah Trotter was a medical redshirt as a freshman at the University of West Virginia. Then he had a season on the field followed by a transfer to the University of Missouri, where SEC coaches voted him an All-Conference linebacker.<\/p>\n
The Bucs grabbed him at No. 46 overall.<\/p>\n
Trotter addressed a question yesterday at Bucs rookie minicamp of how he\u2019s been able to thrive quickly in new environments. Trotter basically said that\u2019s all he\u2019s known as the son of four-time Pro Bowl linebacker Jeremiah Trotter.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI just think it\u2019s just the God-given abilities and gifts that God blessed me with to be able to use that. And having my dad in my life, he helped me a lot,\u201d Trotter said. \u201cI feel like my whole life I was playing up, and able to adjust pretty quickly. So having that in my life definitely helped. And then just my [maturity,] I just feel like I do a good job coming into the building being about business, being about ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Trotter added that he\u2019s all about attacking one day at a time and earning the respect of my teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n
The past?\u00a0Everything I did [in college] doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Trotter said.<\/p>\n
Yes, Joe buys the predraft chatter that Trotter is weak in coverage. But Joe also buys the predraft chatter that Trotter has been groomed to be a stud linebacker and simply needs more experience and seasoning in pass coverage. In short, he\u2019ll develop \u2014 and quickly.<\/p>\n
It can\u2019t hurt that Bucs inside linebackers coach Mike Caldwell is a family friend of the Trotter. Josiah Trotter noted he spent Thanksgivings with his new position coach.<\/p>\n
Joe sure hopes the Bucs craft practice to get Trotter as much coverage experience as possible. The Bucs offense sure has the weapons to challenge Trotter to the extreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talent, Pedigree Keep Josiah Trotter Ready May 9th, 2026 Second-round pick rookie linebacker Josiah Trotter. So projected starting…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":785107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[3529,3527,1318,1317,1315,1316,62,3528,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-785106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116546723092145604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}