The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have drafted very well in recent years, and we aren't talking about the consensus board telling us that. Instead, there is a different metric that tells us the Bucs are going well, at least by drafting athletes.

Relative Athletic Scores have proven to put players' combine and Pro Day testing into perspective. It can be defined as it was created by Kent Lee Platte and measures a player’s draft process testing to their size as well as historically going back to 1987. Each measurement is graded on a scale of 0 to 10, and then they find an average, which allows for the team or evaluator to see how they rank compared to others in the class and historically.

When they posted team score rankings, Bucs fans had the pleasant surprise of seeing they had the top spot.

The Buccaneers ranked 1 of 32 for Average #RAS of their 2026 draft class with a 9.68 average for their 4 players who had a score. pic.twitter.com/c6BvRaYxbC

The Bucs' score beat out the Chicago Bears by 0.2 on the RAS scale of team rankings. The Bucs landing so many athletes at unique positions also speaks to how flexible they can be with how they use them. For DeMonte Capehart and Billy Schrauth especially, the Bucs can use them in more ways than paper may lead you to believe.

This article originally appeared on Bucs Wire: The Bucs drafted some great athletes in the 2026 NFL Draft