Luke Goedeke #67

Stevens Point → Mount Pleasant → Tampa Bay

Three chapters in an unusual apprenticeship

Opportunity • Repetition • Partnership

Learning the job, then finding the fit

Before a scholarship or a draft selection, there was a homemade film project. Goedeke taught himself enough editing software to assemble clips from his Stevens Point games and sent them to Wisconsin and Central Michigan. CMU offered a scholarship. Once there, the transition to tackle demanded new movement patterns, including retreating in pass protection against an oncoming rusher. Practice against future NFL defender Mike Danna helped make that education immediate. Goedeke’s account of the transition.

Tampa Bay’s 2023 line brought another change. Tristan Wirfs moved to left tackle, and Goedeke returned to the right side he knew from Central Michigan. The reshuffle came as Dave Canales installed a new offense and Cody Mauch entered at right guard. Goedeke was therefore learning within a changing unit, with a familiar position giving him a starting point for the work ahead. The original 2023 lineup preview.

The relationship with Wirfs became part of the story too. In 2025, Goedeke described him as one of his best friends and recalled their conversations about playing together in Tampa for many years. He also credited Wirfs’s willingness to move left with helping create his opportunity at right tackle. Two players on opposite ends of the line had built a partnership that mattered to both of them. Goedeke on playing alongside Wirfs.

NFL participation • Through November 1, 2026

The work along the right edge

Goedeke returned from his Week 7 absence to start against Atlanta on November 1. Tampa Bay rushed for a franchise-record 324 yards in the 16–0 victory. His place in that result belongs alongside the other blockers and runners who produced it: an entire offense sustained the ground game throughout the afternoon. The record-setting team performance. Participation is documented in the gamebook sources below.

Through November 1, 2026, Goedeke has 59 regular-season appearances and 56 starts, including seven appearances and seven starts this season. His four NFL playoff appearances and starts are counted separately. Sources: Buccaneers career record and 2026 game log, checked against the original gamebooks.

A receiver’s beginning • A tackle’s finish

The college record behind No. 67

Central Michigan’s 2021 offense gave its line a demanding assignment: make room for Lew Nichols III, who finished as the nation’s leading rusher. Goedeke was part of that blocking group during his ten starts. Alongside his first-team conference selection, Pro Football Focus recognized him with an All-America honorable mention. The honors followed his return from a lost season and marked the progress of a player still relatively new to the position. The final CMU season.

Before the move to tackle, Goedeke caught 12 passes for 132 yards at UW–Stevens Point in 2017, averaging 11.0 yards per catch. His longest reception gained 27 yards, and he finished without a receiving touchdown. That receiving line belongs to his tight-end season, a distinct beginning to the offensive-line career that followed. The Pointers’ final receiving record.

Engineering studies and academic honors

His college records also trace his studies. Stevens Point listed chemical engineering and paper science in 2017; at Central Michigan, he studied mechanical engineering. When CMU announced its academic conference honorees in January 2022, it listed Goedeke with a 3.74 GPA and his second Academic All-MAC selection. That recognition places classroom achievement alongside the position work that occupied his football career. His first college biography; CMU’s academic announcement.

By the spring of his draft year, he had also earned membership in the National Football Foundation’s Hampshire Honor Society. Central Michigan included that recognition in its account of the draft selections, presenting his academic record as part of the same college career that had produced an NFL opportunity. The university’s recognition.

Wisconsin roots • Tampa Bay involvement

Remembering home, showing up here

Water protection also appeared in his choice for the 2024 My Cause My Cleats campaign. Goedeke selected Tampa Bay Waterkeeper among the organizations represented by Buccaneers players that season. Together with the beach cleanup, that choice gives fans a specific local cause to associate with his involvement away from the field. The team’s 2024 cause list.

The next assignment

Keep an eye on the right side

For the Krewe, Goedeke offers a reason to watch the line before following the ball. His story has been built through changes of position, repeated practice and a willingness to begin again when an assignment proved difficult. The next snap puts those lessons back to work, with No. 67 on Tampa Bay’s right edge.

Sources & record

Follow the original reporting

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers: current player profile and 2026 media guide, p. 133.
• Buccaneers: Goedeke’s draft journey and his early football background.
• Goedeke on his position change, the four-year extension and 2025 transactions.
• UW–Stevens Point biography, Central Michigan biography and CMU academic honors.
• Seehafer News: reporting from the Valders jersey retirement.
• Tackle Reading photographs, the beach cleanup and My Cause My Cleats.

The participation tables distinguish regular-season, NFL postseason and college records. College honors identify the awarding organization and year.