In a matter of hours, mock drafts will be done for eight months. Or, as Jeff Cameron calls them, “fake drafts.”

The host of the “Jeff Cameron Show” of ESPN Tallahassee got into a long discussion last week with his producer, Tom Lang, about the Bucs and running back Christian McCaffrey. Cameron, a native of St. Petersburg and a hardcore Bucs fan, as is Lang, also a Pinellas County native, pondered the value of McCaffrey at No. 19 .

Lang thinks it is a lousy investment.

“He’s an amazing athlete — an amazing athlete,” Cameron said. “Just go look at his highlight reel.”

Lang was not moved.

“Oh, hell yes!” Lang said when Cameron asked if the Bucs picking McCaffrey was too high. “I just don’t see it as a home run. … It is just risky to me. If you listen to any one of [Todd] McShay’s 87 appearances talking about McCaffrey, one of the first things he says is [McCaffrey] can be a running back and he can play slot receiver. You really want to draft a guy who plays slot receiver at [No.] 19?”

It goes deeper than that.

Joe understands some fans won’t want to read this; and when they do, they will run down the hallways of their workplace with index fingers stuck in their ears yelling, “LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH!“

The Bucs really like Adam (Rudy!) Humphries. Really, really like Humphries. They like him enough that Joe is convinced drafting a player at No. 19 to unseat Humphries as a slot receiver is off the table, especially with a much, much greater need at running back and pass rusher.

Whether the Bucs draft McCaffrey is unclear and we won’t know for three days, but Cameron believes McCaffrey, fair or unfair, is fighting a “little-white-guy” stereotype.

The full episode of Cameron’s Friday show is below. The McCaffrey-Bucs chatter begins at roughly the 32:00 mark.