The 2025 season will be the 50th campaign for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the league's 27th franchise that began play in 1976. We're marking the occasion with a deep dive into that rich half-century of history, celebrating some of the greatest individual performances ever in a Buccaneer uniform. This allows us to remember some of the franchise's greatest moments but also set the bar for players who will chase history over the next 50 years.

Today, our focus is on interceptions, one of the more vanishing resources of the NFL. In 1981, when a strong Buccaneers defense picked off 32 passes (an average of 2.0 per game), there were 609 interceptions across the NFL, or nearly 22 per team. The 2002 Super Bowl-winning Buccaneers, who sported one of the best pass defenses in league history, recorded

See Full Page