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Buccaneers Hold Tryout for Veteran Nate Washington

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Could the Buccaneers add a veteran wide receiver through the free agent market?

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The Buccaneers are in need of wide receiver help, we have discussed it at length. We held a roundtable discussion about it over the weekend. This weekend the “Eye in the Sky” noted the improvement of Russell Shepard.

This morning, Michael Horan talked about the idea that Jason Licht may look to acquire somebody via trade. Well, they may be looking into a different avenue. Take a look at this Tweet from Adam Caplan dated October 25th, just this past Tuesday.

Veteran WR Nate Washington worked out for the #Buccaneers.

— Adam Caplan (@caplannfl) October 25, 2016

Interesting choice. What do you guys think? Let’s take a look at Nate Washington’s career numbers:

	Games	Receiving	Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Ctch%	Rush	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
2005	22	PIT		85	1	0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0%								0	0	0	0
2006	23	PIT	fl	85	16	2	69	35	624	17.8	4	49	2.2	39.0	50.7%	3	8	0	8	2.7	0.5	0.2	632	4	0	5
2007	24	PIT	fl/wr	85	16	4	55	29	450	15.5	5	40	1.8	28.1	52.7%	1	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.1	450	5	0	5
2008	25	PIT	wr	85	16	1	78	40	631	15.8	3	65	2.5	39.4	51.3%	5	18	0	8	3.6	1.1	0.3	649	3	0	6
2009	26	TEN	WR	85	16	15	95	47	569	12.1	6	35	2.9	35.6	49.5%	2	15	0	14	7.5	0.9	0.1	584	6	1	6
2010	27	TEN	WR	85	16	16	94	42	687	16.4	6	71	2.6	42.9	44.7%	1	-8	0	-8	-8.0	-0.5	0.1	679	6	0	7
2011	28	TEN	WR	85	16	15	121	74	1023	13.8	7	57	4.6	63.9	61.2%	2	5	1	3	2.5	0.3	0.1	1028	8	0	8
2012	29	TEN	WR	85	16	14	89	46	746	16.2	4	71	2.9	46.6	51.7%								746	4	1	5
2013	30	TEN	WR	85	16	15	105	58	919	15.8	3	77	3.6	57.4	55.2%								919	3	0	8
2014	31	TEN	WR	85	16	11	72	40	647	16.2	2	80	2.5	40.4	55.6%								647	2	0	4
2015	32	HOU	WR	85	14	14	94	47	658	14.0	4	49	3.4	47.0	50.0%								658	4	0	5
Career				159	107	873	458	6954	15.2	44	80	2.9	43.7		14	38	1	14	2.7	0.2	0.1	6992	45	2	59
6 yrs	TEN			96	86	576	307	4591	15.0	28	80	3.2	47.8		5	12	1	14	2.4	0.1	0.1	4603	29	2	38
4 yrs	PIT			49	7	203	104	1705	16.4	12	65	2.1	34.8		9	26	0	8	2.9	0.5	0.2	1731	12	0	16
1 yr	HOU			14	14	94	47	658	14.0	4	49	3.4	47.0									658	4	0	5

He would be an asset, no doubt. It’s not lost on me that he is in his 30’s, but so was Vincent Jackson. I have said it more than once. A veteran wide receiver serves as a great friend to a young quarterback. This young man caught 47 passes in Houston last year. He is not finished. Nate would do well taking some of the coverage away from Mike Evans down the field. His 1,000 yard performance with Tennessee is not that long ago.

OK maybe it was a little while ago, but he still was more productive last year than he was the year before.

What do you guys think? Is Washington a good idea?

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