The Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 2025 season ended on Sunday when the Atlanta Falcons beat the New Orleans Saints, resulting in the Carolina Panthers winning the NFC South title on a tiebreaker. The next day, the contracts of all 17 players who finished the season on Tampa Bay's practice squad automatically expired. However, most of those players will be back to start the 2026 offseason.
On Thursday, the Buccaneers announced the re-signing of 12 of those 17 players, plus one, defensive lineman Jayson Jones, who was on practice squad/injured reserve at the end of the year. The Bucs also added one player from outside the organization, tackle Marshall Foerner, who went to training camp with the Indianapolis Colts last summer. All 14 players inked reserve/futures contracts that take affect at the conclusion of the 2025 playoffs.
The 14 players signed to futures deals this week are:
- S Marcus Banks
- T Marshall Foerner
- WR Garrett Greene
- WR Dennis Houston
- DT Nash Hutmacher
- LB Nick Jackson
- DT Jayson Jones
- OLB Mohamed Kamara
- C Ben Scott
- LB Benton Whitley
- RB Michael Wiley
- CB Damarion Williams
- RB Josh Williams
- RB Owen Wright
Once these players are activated from the reserve list following the Super Bowl, they will be part of the Buccaneers' 90-man offseason roster when the new league year begins in March. Last year, three of the players signed to reserve/futures contracts after the 2024 season ended up seeing action for the Bucs in the regular season – defensive lineman C.J. Brewer, guard Luke Haggard and wide receiver Ryan Miller – and a fourth, tight end Tanner Taula, spent the entire 2025 season on the team's practice squad.
The expansion of practice squads to 16 spots (plus occasional international player exemptions) and the introduction of the game day elevation options in recent years has allowed teams more continuity and more flexibility with those players. Nine of the 17 players who finished the season on the Bucs' practice squad were on that unit for all 18 weeks and two others started and finished on that squad with some time on the active roster in between.
Jackson played in three games with one start as a rookie in 2025, recording one tackle each on defense and special teams, and Kamara got into three games as well. Wright played four games and logged three carries for six yards and three kickoff returns for 73 yards, while Williams opened the season on the 53-man roster and played in three games, recording four carries for 11 yards and five kickoff returns for 129 yards. Greene, Hutmacher, Jackson, Scott and Williams all joined the team as undrafted rookies last May. Foerner joined the Colts as an undrafted rookie out of Minnesota State-Mankato in 2025 but was waived during final roster cuts in late August and did not subsequently appear on an NFL roster.
