One of the underrated threads this offseason for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was the future of Jamel Dean.
He still has two years left on his contract but he’s hardly lived up to the $52 million deal he signed back in 2023. Ever since then it’s been a seemingly endless string of poor performances and costly mistakes, and it raised serious questions about whether or not he’d be cut or traded this offseason.
Neither of those things happened, but he didn’t do himself any favors in his preseason debut on Saturday against the Steelers.
Dean’s preseason debut got off to a rough start.