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Those looking through the Buccaneers’ roster page last week may have noticed something a bit out of the ordinary – center Evan Dietrich-Smith is now listed as Evan Smith.
Why the change? On Monday, Smith explained the decision to drop “Dietrich” from his name to media members at One Buccaneer Place in Tampa.
“I actually really started going by Dietrich to kind of honor my brother when he was in the Army,” Smith said. “Our name was so long that all they could put on the patch was 'Dietrich'.