Worst draft pick of Jason Licht’s tenure as Bucs’ GM?

It’s hard to beat trading up for a one-year kicker in the second round, but this pick might actually have been worse for the Bucs

It’s hard to beat trading up for a kicker in the second round, especially a kicker who got cut after just one season.

But is there actually a worse pick from Jason Licht’s tenure as the general manager of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers than Roberto Aguayo?

It’s possible, according to Jay Recher of WDAE, who thinks that spending a second-round pick in the 2021 NFL draft on quarterback Kyle Trask was one of the worst moves from an otherwise sterling performance from Licht during his time calling the personnel shots in Tampa Bay.

It’s hard to argue with Recher, given the context of where the Bucs were as a franchise when they made the pick:

The Bucs set a franchise record in 2021 with 13 regular-season wins, but fell short of a repeat Super Bowl bid with a crushing home loss to the eventual-champion Los Angeles Rams.

That ending to the 2021 season was even harder to stomach when you consider that instead of spending that second-round pick on a potential impact player at any number of positions where the Bucs could have used more, they used it on a quarterback who held a clipboard all season and was never even active for a single game.

Again, it’s hard to be a one-year kicker after trading up in the second round, but considering what could have been had the Bucs a valuable player instead of Trask, that pick might actually take the cake.

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