It's going to become an event Buccaneers fans look forward to every year.
Each year, around 250 college football players are drafted by the NFL. Given there are around 110 Division I (not to mention Divisions II and III, plus other smaller college affiliations) schools with anywhere from 5-25 players completing their college careers each year, that's 250 picks from a potential pool of well over 25,000 players, or just about 1%.
The other 99% gets one last chance at the dream through college free agency (well, not the absolute last shot, but getting pretty far down the line). This is when the 32 NFL teams can descend upon the remaining college talent pool and dig deep, look for long shots, or find a diamond in the rough.
Undrafted talent currently resides on the Tampa Bay roster in the persons of Kregg Lumpkin and Ryan Purvis (undrafted in 2009) as well as George Johnson, Derek Hardman, and LeGarrette Blount (all undrafted in 2010).
If the players can get the NFLPA Union back together in the next day or so the league can get the process of signing these players underway.
And Buccaneer fans will get a new glimpse of the future!
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