04-03-2025
Bengals release former Bucs starting guard ahead of free agency
The Bucs have always embraced reunions with players who left the team in free agency after being drafted by them in years past. We saw it last season with Jordan Whitehead, who was drafted by the Bucs and left in free agency before ultimately returning. Obviously, the results can be mixed, but there may be another player the team runs things back with now that he is available.
On Monday, the Cincinnati Bengals released former Bucs draft pick and starter Alex Cappa from their roster in a move to save money towards their salary cap.
Cappa, who will be an eighth-year player in 2025, joined the Bengals as a free agent in 2022. He started all 50 games he played in for Cincinnati at guard, the same position he played with the Bucs. In his career as a whole, Cappa has played in 102 games and started in 96 of them.
Cappa was drafted in the third round in 2013, one year before Jason Licht arrived on the team. He got on NFL radars after an impressive showing at the Senior Bowl and a college career at Humboldt State, which is a now-defunct Division II program.
