Projecting three future Hall of Famers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 2024 will officially be inducted on Aug. 3.

With less than a month until the annual event in Canton, Ohio, we're examining which players — past and present — on the league's 32 teams we think will one day receive a similar honor.

Here are three Tampa Bay Buccaneers who should eventually receive football immortality:

Quarterback Tom Brady

Brady is a future first-ballot Hall of Famer when he's first eligible as a member of the class of 2028.

While he'll go into the Hall largely for his time with the Patriots, the seven-time Super Bowl champion had plenty left in his tank when he signed with the Buccaneers during free agency in 2020.

He led Tampa to its second Super Bowl title in his first season and followed that with consecutive first-place division finishes in 2021 and 2022), the first such occurrence in franchise history.

Despite only playing three seasons with the Bucs, Brady is near the top of the franchise in several categories. He ranks third in passing yards (14,643), second in touchdowns (108) and first in completion percentage (66.7 percent) among quarterbacks with at least 300 pass attempts with the franchise.

Wide receiver Mike Evans

Evans is the only player in league history to begin his career with 10 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. With another in 2024, he'll tie Jerry Rice's all-time record at any point of an NFL career. Beginning in 1986, Rice's second year in the league, he had 11 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons (1986-96).

Evans, a former Texas A&M Aggie, is already 33rd on the all-time receiving yards list (11,680) and will climb into the top 25 if he eclipses 1,000 yards this season. Evans is 155 yards shy of passing Hall-of-Famer Don Maynard. He's also within range of surpassing 2007 inductee Michael Irvin (225 yards) and Charlie Joiner (467 yards), a member of the class of 1996.

Offensive lineman Tristan Wirfs

Despite only entering his fifth season, Tampa's left tackle has already put himself on a Hall-of-Fame trajectory.

The Buccaneers selected Wirfs No. 13 overall in the 2020 NFL Draft, and the former Iowa Hawkeye was named First-Team All-Pro a year later. He's made the Pro Bowl in his last three seasons and deftly transitioned from right to left tackle in 2023.

Per data from Pro Football Focus, in "true pass sets," which filters out certain pass situations, including "plays with less than four rushers, play action, screens, short drop backs and time-to-throws under two seconds," Wirfs had the fourth-best efficiency rating (96.7) among tackles with at least 450 pass-block snaps. He allowed 17 total pressures, tied for the seventh-fewest, in 362 pass-block opportunities, the seventh-most.

Wirfs' gold jacket is not guaranteed, but he's built a strong foundation. According to Pro Football Reference's Pro Football Hall of Fame Monitor, the average Hall-of-Fame offensive tackle is a four-time First-Team All-Pro selection and eight-time Pro Bowler.

If he keeps up his production for the next decade, Wirfs should reach those benchmarks.