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When you use the No. 1 overall pick on a quarterback, you don’t anticipate him lining up behind Mike Glennon for very long.

But that’s what happened in Buccaneers OTAs yesterday, as Jameis Winston lined up with the second team.

“Jameis and everybody else have to earn their position,” Bucs coach Lovie Smith said, via the Tampa Bay Times. “Jameis is getting his first-team reps. You guys are here on Thursday, and Wednesday he was with the first group then. Don’t look too much into that. We just want the guys we think can play to get reps, and we want them to work with a lot of different combinations.

“Jameis is right on schedule. We’re not disappointed or anything like that in him.”

It’s good that they cleared that up, and that there wasn’t an underlying problem. Winston seemed fine with it as well.

“I was never given anything in my life, so the way I was brought up, I have to earn everything,” Winston said. “The main thing is to earn the respect of all these players out here.”

He can do that one day at a time, and by working his way up the ladder, regardless of his draft status.