The Early Read: Quinton Coples

Continuing our Early Read feature series, we look at another player the Bucs may look towards at the top of the 2012 draft. Quinton Coples is an intriguing prospect. If you listen to our podcast (and if you don’t, you should) you heard Josh pose a very good question in this week’s shows. What happens if, like seems to be the ill-fated case with this organization, things don’t shake out for Tampa on draft day? What happens if the Bucs can’t trade down and Morris Claiborne has already been selected? We’ve already talked about Morris Claiborne, we’ll be featuring him soon, but as many agree he would be the ideal selection should the Bucs opt to use that pick at five. But what if he’s gone, where do the Bucs go? Who do they pick? What happens? In that case the Bucs are sent back to the drawing board. They need to address their secondary, but there’s not another DB in the draft worthy of being taken that high. They could look at their offen...