Kyle Trask is not expected to be a starter this upcoming season after backing up Tom Brady last year. When Tom Brady announced his retirement back in February, the Bucs were forced into the reality of needing both a short-term and long-term replacement.
Kyle Trask was floated as the potential starter for this upcoming season, but that was quickly dismissed when the team went out and signed Baker Mayfield.
Both of them are in the midst of a quarterback competition, but one former player on the team says Trask should not be considered,
Former Bucs quarterback Shaun King delivered a harsh assessment of Trask on VSiN PrimeTime.
“Kyle Trask stinks… Listen, if Kyle Trask had done anything in practice during his two years backing up Tom Brady, Tampa doesn’t go out and sign Baker Mayfield,” King said. “He’d have had to have been terrible in practice. Because when you draft a quarterback second round, you want to be right. [General manager] Jason Licht wants that pick to pan out.”
That is a very harsh assessment.
As a former second-round pick of the Buccaneers himself, King is certainly entitled to his opinion.
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Mayfield is the frontrunner to win the Bucs’ starting quarterback job. He still needs to outperform Trask in training camp, as the role won’t be handed to Mayfield unless he earns it, but that seems to be the expected outcome of their battle.
If Mayfield does win the job, we won’t be able to see the chance to find out if King is correct in his assessment that Kyle Trask “stinks”.
Selected with the No. 64 pick of the 2021 NFL Draft, Trask spent the last two seasons watching Tom Brady. He only saw the field enough to complete three of nine passes for 23 yards in last season’s Week 18 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.
