Bucs LT Puts Penn to Tender Offer

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers LT Donald Penn had until April 17th to sign the offer tendered to him before free agency began. The restricted free agent was tendered at the highest level by general manager Mark Dominik, and the Bucs would receive a 1st and 3rd round choices is Penn signed with another squad.

Penn was hoping for a long term deal, like the one his teammate TE Kellen Winslow recently signed, but will have to settle for the one-year $2.8 Million deal.

Penn, 25, originally entered the league as an undrafted free agent with Minnesota. He has started 26 of the 32 games he's played in for the Buccaneers since the team acquired him as a free agent in 2006. That includes the 16 games he started at left tackle in 2008.

The two sides are expected to continue to work on a long-term deal for Penn, which would be the ideal scenario for the former Utah State product.