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One more quick thread on M.J. Stewart getting cut today by Bucs and how a draft trade can go two completely different directions for the same team. When Bucs moved down from No. 7 to 12 (and got Vita Vea) in 2018, they acquired 53rd and 56th picks from Buffalo.
So Tampa Bay has two bonus second-rounders. They used the first (53rd) on Stewart, who had zero INTs, six starts on bad defenses in two years before getting cut. But the other pick?
Bucs took that No. 56 pick and flipped it to the Patriots for 63 and 117, and has two starting DBs from those picks in CB Carlton Davis and S Jordan Whitehead. They're both still only 23 and have 51 career starts already between them.
It's an example of how hit-and-miss even the second round can be, but it's also why you want more picks, so you have more chances to get it right like this. Instead of Vea at 7, Bucs traded and got three starters: Vea, Davis and Whitehead, and yes, a bad miss in Stewart as well.
