TAMPA — In the week leading up to the NFL draft, Bucs general manager Jason Licht went out of his way to thank the comparably anonymous scouts and front-office executives who had helped him prepare for the biggest day of his year.

The success — or failure — of a draft class will be credited or blamed on Licht, who is preparing for his fifth season in Tampa Bay. But hours after the 2018 draft wrapped up, he posted a suit-and-tie group photo of the 20 scouts and assistants who had just crossed a finish line together, all with big smiles reflecting that.

"365 days of hard work condensed into 1 weekend," wrote Licht, who has been the one in many of those jobs in past photos, working his way up as a scout and through front offices to become a general manager. . "Big thanks to the lifeblood of the organization. #scoutslife #nfldraft @Buccaneers"

We saw the picture and thought of the Hall of Presidents — surely, you can recognize Washington and Lincoln and Kennedy, but you need that little mini photo with the silhouettes of everyone and tiny numbers in each head, with the corresponding list of who's who. Millard Fillmore and Rutherford B. Hayes need love, too.

There was a similar shot on Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last summer, showing a huge room full of assistant coaches and front-office guys as the Bucs worked out the difficult process of paring their roster from 90 players to the initial 53.

So we identified all 20 people in the Licht photo — six seated in chairs, 14 standing behind them, and that doesn't include two Bucs staffers who represented the team in Dallas at the draft. We asked Licht if he could share a few words about each and what role they have in putting together a draft class, and he was glad to oblige.

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1. Josh Hinch: "Scouting assistant. He's been with us three years, does everything from putting point-of-attack tapes, highlight tapes, filing reports, making airport runs, making hotel runs, everything."

2. Shane Scannell: "Shane's one of our pro scouts, was one of our scouting assistants at one point, got promoted to pro scout. He's in charge of, along with Alex Smith, working for Rob McCartney, evaluating every player on every team. For draft, identifying team needs, who they forecast they'll be drafting, who they brought in for workouts, who they visited, going through media clips and keeping track of every player and every team and what they forecast them to draft. It's part of the whole puzzle."

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3. Donovan Cotton: "Southwest area scout. Played at Norfolk State."

4. Brian Hudspeth: "Southeast area scout. He's been with the Bucs a long time. He's the area scout for the most talent-rich area of the country."

5. Tony Hardie: "Tony has the midwest area as a scout. Another very valuable member of our staff. He looks at midwest guys, but he also looks at all top players. Really sharp guy."

6. Tony Kinkela: "West Coast scout. He had a big year this year: (USC RB) Ronald Jones and (Washington DT) Vita (Vea) and (Humboldt State OL) Alex Cappa."

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7. Andre Forde: "He does the Northeast, and the Northeast is a very important area for me, because it's the area that sometimes gets most often overlooked. You find the best sleepers there: Ali Marpet. People rush through the Northeast: 'These guys aren't going to be talented.' But you can find them. Donovan (Smith), Ali, (Chris) Godwin."

8. Shelton Quarles: "Director of player ops, he scouts for us, looks at some of the top players, and in pro scouting. He's in charge of all the logistics of bringing guys in, still has a hand in scouting. A very, very valuable member of our staff, especially being a former player and Pro Bowler, he has a good rapport with players."

9. Antwon Murray: "Antwon is our NFS (National Football Scouting) representative for the Southeast. We belong to NFS and he works for all the teams that belong. We have two scouts in the southeast, so I feel very fortunate."

10. Brian McLaughlin: "Scouting assistant — all the things I said about Hinch, and we're going to be promoting McLaughlin to a scout role. He'll be doing some pro, doing some college."

11. A.J. Stevens: "He's (Mike) Greenberg's top assistant, so salary cap, contracts, projects, analytic studies and a lot of other things."

12. Alex Smith: "Same as Shane Scannell. Constantly monitoring the entire league, and when draft time comes around, they look at a lot of players, look for sleepers."

13. Spencer Dille: "Best football IT (Internet technology) guy in the business. Incredible. The technology we have right now is the best I've ever been around. Our smartboards, our apps for phones and I-pads. The technology we have on the draft because of Spencer is literally at my fingertips."

14. Tyler Oberly: "Director of analytics. He studies all the analytical trends, gives me a projection of where he thinks guys are likely to go based on history, based on grades, based on his model. We don't go exactly by that, but he's had really good analysis in the past and has been pretty spot-on projecting where guys are going to go that's really helped us."

15. Andy Speyer: "He's the West national scout, so all top players west of the Mississippi. We worked together (in Philadelphia): (John) Spytek, myself and Andy all worked together."

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16. John Spytek: "Director of player personnel, in charge of pro and college scouting for me."

17. Byron Kiefer: "East national scout, so all top players east of the Mississippi."

18. Rob McCartney: "Director of pro scouting, but he also does a lot of college stuff for us. It's important for me that these guys cross-train and see both. He also leads the charge on all the team needs of every team. He gives me analysis at the very end of what we project every team to be taking. These are their top five needs by position."

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19. Mike Greenberg: "He's invaluable. Helped me work for two weeks before the draft with an Excel sheet from here to that door with every single scenario you could think of. I made a decision while things were calm, so they don't get crazy, on what I would do in every scenario, what I would trade, what I would ask, what I would be willing to give, what I settle for. When the scenario comes, he shows me the sheet, this is it, I know exactly where I am."

20. Mike Biehl: "He's the busiest man leading up to the draft, along with the scouts. Organizes all the scouts, where they're going to go visit, but more important, he watches every single player. He probably had 600 guys."

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Licht didn't want to leave out the two staffers who missed the pic because they were in Dallas, representing the Bucs and turning names in to the league.

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21. Brett Greene: "Our video director. He and his staff work tirelessly not only during the season, but also in the offseason keeping all of our college and pro video current and readily available to watch on our desktops and mobile devices."

22. Cesar Rivera: "Recently promoted from operations assistant to scouting coordinator. He's the equivalent to the Assistant to Head Coach (Anthony Perkins) on the scouting side."

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