No, Maxx Crosby Unlikely To Come To Tampa Bay
March 11th, 2026
Very unlikely Bucs make a move.
Boy, the Raiders got screwed over.
If you weren’t monitoring social media last night, then perhaps you are unaware that the Crows decommitted last night from their trade of two first-round picks to Las Vegas for Maxx Crosby.
So the Raiders are not just out of two first-round picks, but they spent like drunken sailors this week to build up their lineup and now, unexpectedly, they have a $30 million a year contract dumped on them.
Bye, bye Trey Hendrickson. If the Crows were willing to cough up two first-round picks for Crosby, they shouldn’t have any problem paying Hendrickson $25+ million.
And the Bucs will once again be a day late and a dollar short. Actually, quite a few dollars. Millions.
But no, Joe doesn’t think this will motivate Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht to suddenly decide to go against everything in his DNA and trade a couple of first-round picks for Crosby. That’s about as un-Light of a move as there is.
Why did Baltimore renege on the trade? Joe’s willing to bet that Crosby, who is coming off knee surgery, had rotten medicals when he took a physical yesterday in Baltimore.
And Licht’s going to trade two first-round picks for a guy who likely is major damaged goods, only to watch Bucs coach Todd Bowles use Crosby in every imaginable way on defense other than rushing the quarterback?
Crosby to the Bucs has all the smell of a pipedream.
Don’t expect teams to be lining up immediately to get back into Maxx Crosby trade talks. Some teams I spoke to tonight expect the Raiders to be the ones calling them.
It’ll be up to individual teams’ medical staffs to decide on whether to assume the risk of trading for Crosby.
— Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) March 11, 2026