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Up to this point, I've done three previous 2022 Mock Drafts; you can find the links to them below. One of them was a Buccaneers-only exercise in which I tried to find a reasonable pick for our team at each of their six spot in the draft. The other two were your usual first-round exercises, in which I made a prediction for each team picking in the round, including the Buccaneers at pick number 27. In neither of those did I allow myself to trade any of those 32 picks. Well, those days are gone. All the pent-up desire to move some of these picks around and get teams in position to pursue bolder strategies that I've tamped down over the past month? I'm letting it out, baby! Every other week in our Buccaneers.com Mock Draft series I'm deviating from the usual approach and working on some kind of gimmick. And for Mock Draft 4.0 that gimmick is: TRADES! Lots of trades. This time around, I tasked myself with predicting the 32 picks in the first round and engineering at least six trades. As it turned out, I hit that goal right on the head. And, yes, the Buccaneers were one of the teams involved in a trade. Read on for the possibly off-the-wall results.