Lombardi Lenny — what a fantastic nickname that is — will be back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers once again 2021.
On Friday, running back Leonard Fournette returned to the team that he helped win a Super Bowl, and that means so many of the players who got a ring last season are back (no wonder they earned an “A” grade from our Steven Ruiz and Charles McDonald).
But did you realize how many of them it was? How about all 22 of their starters on both sides of the ball?
And here’s the wild part: that’s the first time all the starters returned to a Super Bowl-winning team in the salary-cap era:
With Leonard Fournette re-signing with the Buccaneers, Tampa Bay will now become the first team in the salary cap era (since 1994) to bring back all 22 starters from their Super Bowl victory, per @EliasSports.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) March 26, 2021
It’s an amazing feat: getting back Fournette, Shaq Barrett, Ndamukong Suh, Rob Gronkowski and Lavonte David and not going over the cap? WOW.
