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Josh Freeman becomes Bucs' QB of the future

The trades keep coming, as do the skill-position players. The Browns traded the first-rounder they acquired from the Jets to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, moving down just two spots and getting a pick in the low 100s in the process. With that No. 17 pick, Tampa takes Josh Freeman, a quarterback out of Kansas State. Don't overlook the fact that new Bucs coach Raheem Morris coached on the KSU staff when Freeman was there. Physically, Freeman is ready: He's got a big arm, he's 6-foot-5, and he's a fine athlete. But he's a developmental pick. The Bucs signed Byron Leftwich just a couple of weeks ago and also have Luke McCown, which means Freeman will probably sit for most of his rookie year. Reports indicate that he's got a learning disability, which affects the speed at which he processes information, and critics have said he's got to speed everything up: his reads, his throwing motion, everything. What this probably means most concretely is that Jon Gruden's pet project, Josh Johnson, is no longer viewed as Tampa's quarterback of the future, and in fact may wind up getting cut or traded this summer. Because now the quarterback of the future is Josh Freeman.