[](https://www.joebucsfan.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Trottercenter.png)The rookie gushing is flowing at One Buc Palace.
Joe hasn’t heard this kind of early rookie love in a long time, perhaps not since 2015, when Jameis Winston, Donovan Smith, Ali Marpet and Kwon Alexander were preparing to take the field. Maybe.
There is no hesitation at One Buc Palace, seemingly from anyone. Everyone opens up quickly regarding first-round pick edge rusher Rueben Bain and second-round pick linebacker Josiah Trotter. Bain has been called a transformative force; Trotter has been gaining on him for a week.,
Todd Bowels continued the chorus this afternoon. Fans will be soothed.
“He’s almost like a new school linebacker in an old school body,” Bowles said of Trotter. “He really knows how to play the game. And he really plays with intent to do serious harm.”
Joe is fired up to see these guys unleashed on the sad Jets in the Bucs’ next practice — Tuesday in New Jersey.