Koetter: Repeating success of 2015 draft is 'unrealistic'

Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht made the most of his second draft as the man in charge last season, adding four starting players to his roster.

Quarterback Jameis Winston was taken first overall, offensive linemen Donovan Smith and Ali Marpet were added in the second round, and linebacker Kwon Alexander was picked up with the 125th-overall spot.

This season, the Bucs are picking eight spots later than they did a year ago, and head coach Dirk Koetter doesn't expect his team to do the same damage they did at the 2015 draft.

"It would be fantastic if we could do that every year, but I think that's unrealistic to say that we're going to get the same four (starters) like that every year," Koetter told the Tampa Bay Times. "To get Kwon Alexander, that type of player, in the fourth round? But the draft is still an inexact science. There are plenty of examples.

"I think we just did a tremendous job in the draft last year, and it's important every year. … That's what's going to get us over the top as a football team, so it's very, very important, but I think it's probably unrealistic to think that we're going to be able to do that every year."

The Bucs drafted two starters in each of the past two drafts before 2014; Mike Evans and Austin Seferian-Jenkins in 2014, and William Gholston and Akeem Spence in 2013.

Tampa Bay holds seven picks in this year's draft; one in each of the first five rounds, and two in the sixth round.