 The Veteran Allocation DraftTo help stock their inaugural rosters, the Buccaneers and Seahawks were each given 39 players from the other NFL teams. No team could lose more than three players in the draft and no real talent was left available for selection. The Seahawks won a coin-toss to gain first selection in the veteran draft and the Bucs won the first pick in the collegiate draft. All they got for that was Lee Roy Selmon. Bob Moore, a tight end who had appeared in three consecutive AFC Championship Games with the Oakland Raiders, was playing golf with two team-mates when he receivede the news he had been drafted. "I was devastated" he said. "I had no idea where the hell Tampa Bay was. Was it on the West Coast? Was it on the East Coast? I truly didn't know". Mark Cotney had spent his 1975 rookie season with the Oilers. "The Tampa Bay Bucca-whos?" he said to a local reporter. "I was on a Houston team contending for the Super Bowl. Suddenly I'm one of the castoffs." Ron Wolf, the Bucs' GM, remembers the expansion draft and the decision to take Bob Moore with the first pick. "We only took Bob Moore because we wanted to trade him for more value. Then we couldn't trade him. He wasn't wild about being in Tampa. We probably bungled that one." |
CB, 5-10, 188
DT, 6-4, 260
LB, 6-2, 230
RB, 5-11, 209
LB, 5-11, 224
S, 6-0, 227
T, 6-4, 270
RB, 5-9, 190
DB, 6-0, 178
DB, 6-2, 189
LB, 6-1, 225
OL, 6-6, 263
G, 6-3, 283
LB, 6-2, 231
RB, 6-0, 211
DB, 5-10, 180
RB, 6-0, 239
RB, 6-1, 218
WR, 5-10, 175
TE, 6-2, 229
RB, 6-0, 199
T, 6-5, 250
S, 6-1, 180
G, 6-4, 269
DB, 6-0, 198
DT, 6-2, 248
LB, 6-3, 213
DE, 6-4, 255
C, 6-3, 250
WR, 6-1, 195
OL, 6-4, 277
DE, 6-6 244
WR, 5-10, 173