The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are building excitement for the 2025 season.
Already engaging in voluntary OTAs this offseason, the team's activities will build toward the preseason and the final roster cutdown to the 53-man edition, which is due before the regular season begins.
On Monday, during an exclusive interview with Scott Reynolds of PewterReport.com, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles revealed that Tampa Bay will hold a pair of joint practices this preseason with the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers.
“We’re working on having joint practices with two of them – the Titans and the Steelers,” Bowles told Pewter Report.
The joint practices will come ahead of the preseason games scheduled with each team in August.
Bowles and the Bucs begin the preseason against the Titans on Aug. 9 at 7:30 p.m. ET before heading to Pittsburgh to play the Steelers on Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. ET. Both games are on Saturday.
Facing Tennessee during the first week of the NFL preseason means the Bucs could be the first team to face this year's No. 1 overall draft pick, Cam Ward, who the Titans selected.
It's the first time in Bowles' tenure in Tampa Bay that the team will face two teams in joint practices that they'll match up against in the preseason.
After the two joint practices, the Bucs wrap up the three-game preseason schedule against the Bills in Tampa on Aug. 23 at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Bowles and the Buccaneers then hit the road against the Falcons on Sept. 7 and the Texans on Sept. 15 to start the regular season with two matchups away from Raymond James Stadium.