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Tampa Bay GM Jason Licht Was Nervous Steelers Would Draft Graham Barton, Tried Trading Up

Pre-draft, we speculated that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers could be one of the team’s looking to trade up on draft night once the Pittsburgh Steelers got on the clock at pick 20. Turns out, it was around that time that Bucs GM Jason Licht began sweating out whether or not the team would land its top target, Duke offensive lineman Graham Barton.

“I didn’t think that there is going be a snowball’s chance in hell that he was going to be there at our pick,” Licht told Adam Schein on Sirius’s Schein on Sports via JoeBucsfan.