The Tampa Bay Buccaneers invested heavily in the safety position during the 2017 offseason, and then suddenly shifted some of their capital just before the season began.
Tampa Bay's first move, back in March, was to re-sign Chris Conte just as free agency was beginning. Two days later, the team added former Dallas safety J.J. Wilcox as an unrestricted free agent, ostensibly to replace Bradley McDougald, a 2016 starter who departed for Seattle. Finally, in late April, the Buccaneers used their second-round draft pick on rangy Texas A&M safety Justin Evans.
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Training camp came and went and incumbents Conte and Keith Tandy remained entrenched in the starting spots.