Team news: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Buccaneers QB coach Clyde Christensen told reporters that QB Kyle Trask is the developmental quarterback, making Blaine Gabbert the backup to Tom Brady. "It's more of a learning curve," said Christensen. "I don't see him competing with Gabbert this year."

At this point, Trask appears to be clinging to fantasy value in dynasty formats, especially if Gabbert stays with Tampa Bay as long as Tom Brady is around.

The Chicago Bears are signing TE Ryan Griffin to a one-year deal.

Related Player: Cole Kmet

After once being the butt of the league with a gaggle of tight ends vying for playing time, Griffin is now in line to be Chicago's TE2 behind Cole Kmet. Griffin has been mildly successful when given a chance and could steal targets from Kmet. Both are to be drafted later or not at all depending on league size.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have re-signed RB Leonard Fournette to a three-year deal.

Aside from Rob Gronkowski, the main offensive cogs in the Bucs offense are back. Fournette has thrived in Tampa Bay and only has Ke'Shawn Vaughn to compete with at this time.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and WR Chris Godwin agreed to a three-year deal, taking him off the franchise tag.

Godwin is set to be the team's WR1/2 alongside Mike Evans once he is healthy.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers re-signed WR Breshad Perriman to a one-year deal.

Perriman joins a crowded receiver room and has little fantasy value heading into 2022.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are signing WR Russell Gage.

Gage is added insurance while Chris Godwin is out, but his addition stunts the growth of young wideouts such as Tyler Johnson and Jaelon Darden.

It’s a consequential moment not only for Tom Brady — who finished the 2021 season second in the league’s MVP voting — but also for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who had been mulling over whether to pursue a Deshaun Watson trade this week. As recently as the NFL combine last week, Tampa Bay was believed to be high on the list of preferred trade destinations for the embattled Houston Texans quarterback. So much so that one team that was also weighing a serious pursuit of Watson told Yahoo Sports that it believed the Buccaneers would be the leading contender if Brady remained in retirement and Tampa Bay ultimately opened trade talks with the Texans.

His retirement lasted all of 40 days. This is obviously great news for all of the returning receivers, namely Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, who was slapped with the franchise tag last week. Brady will once again be ranked as a fantasy QB1 after two very solid seasons in Tampa.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have placed the franchise tag on WR Chris Godwin. The two sides are working on a long-term contract.

A return to Tampa helps raise the floor of the team's next choice to start at QB, but could also lower the floors of Godwin and teammate Mike Evans.

QB Tom Brady has announced his retirement from the NFL.

Brady will go down as the best quarterback in NFL history. His departure from the NFL now leaves the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with a hole at QB. Kyle Trask and Blaine Gabbert were behind Brady on the Bucs depth chart in 2021.