The Facts: With three games left to be served on a PED suspension, Martin's roster spot is hardly secure, even as he draws positive reviews during offseason workouts. "Well, we have a deep group of running backs," HC Dirk Koetter told ESPN on Thursday "And then it is still yet to be determined what is going to happen at the end of Doug's suspension. But Doug has sure done a good job up to this point with our offseason program."
Diehards Line:
Martin’s suspension wipes out the guaranteed nature of his 2017 salary, making it easy and clean for the Buccaneers to cut him and to avoid the full amount of his $5.7 million salary. Whether the Bucs choose to do that depends in large part on whether someone else steps up and gets the job done at a much cheaper rate. That depth Koetter referred to includes Jacquizz Rodgers, Charles Sims, Peyton Barber and Jeremy McNichols. So as PFT suggests, while it helps Martin’s cause that he’s doing well in the offseason program, he’ll need to do a lot better than the rest of the in-house competition in order to stick around.