TAMPA — After only one season at center, Ali Marpet was summoned to One Buc Place last spring and told the team planned to recruit a free agent player at his position.
Marpet could have made a fuss. Instead, he made plans to have a recruiting dinner with Ravens free agent center Ryan Jensen.
"If it helps our team, I'm all for it," Marpet said at the time. "And I think it helps our team."
Jensen would up signing with the Bucs and Marpet moved to left guard, his third position in four years.
But his unselfishness, versatility and dominating play was rewarded Tuesday when Marpet signed a five-year contract extension worth $10.