Cade Otton Doesn’t Like Being Singled Out
June 6th, 2025
Team guy.
Cool thing about Cade Otton. The Bucs’ starting tight end the past three years is reluctant to embrace any personal credit for the Bucs’ offensive success.
When asked to speak of his consistency — the only time Otton’s mostly level play changed was a spike for a four-game stretch when Mike Evans and Chris Godwin were hurt — Otton would only respond with “we.”
He wasn’t talking about the Bucs offense or the team in general. Otton was talking about Bucs tight ends. He didn’t want to be singled out from the group of fellow tight ends.
“I take a lot of pride in that,” Otton said about his consistent play — before he began to speak collectively for the tight end room.
“As tight ends, we’re asked to do a lot of different things – I like to think of ourselves as like ‘the fixers’ in the offense because of our body types and we’re able to participate in different facets of the game.
“We need to be able to fix problems so [others] need to be able to trust us and know what they’re going to get out of us and that’s a huge part of the position.”
Now that’s a team guy, which Otton is. He isn’t getting the job done, all Bucs tight ends are getting the job done.
Joe thought it was cool when Otton was asked about his play and consistency he found a way to include all his tight end teammates and dodge personal accolades.