At 4:45pm EST on Friday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced that the team had offered tenders to safety Isaiah Johnson and guard Mike Liedtke. This makies the both of them exclusive rights free agents once the new league year begins on March 13.
According to the Buccaneers’ senior staff writer Scott Smith, when a team becomes an exclusive rights free agent, it is “a virtually certainty that both Johnson and Liedtke will be back with the Buccaneers in 2019.” While the Buccaneers have limited cap space, it is a solid move to keep as much depth for as cheap as possible.