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Shilo Sanders might have lost his roster spot to an injured Buccaneers player

Tampa Bay's unconventional roster approach may have squeezed the undrafted free agent rookie safety out of the picture.

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Chris Godwin and Shilo Sanders play different positions and have varying pedigrees, though their current statuses intersect more than they realize. The former is a Tampa Bay Buccaneers mainstay, so much so that the team prematurely removed him from the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list. This questionable decision is inadvertently at least partly to blame for the latter's recent departure.