Simeon Rice Signed Buccaneers Custom Orange Jersey BAS Authenticated

Add the signature of the pass-rusher who completed the greatest defense of his era to your collection with this Simeon Rice Autographed Tampa Bay Buccaneers Custom Orange Football Jersey — BAS Authenticated. The 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense featured Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, John Lynch, and Ronde Barber — four players the Pro Football Hall of Fame has since enshrined. It was already one of the most decorated defensive rosters in NFL history before the snap of a single 2002 game. Simeon Rice was the pass-rush engine that made it historic. Rice led the Tampa Bay defense with 15.5 regular-season sacks that year, then added 4.0 more in the postseason — including two sacks of league MVP Rich Gannon in the Buccaneers' 48–21 Super Bowl XXXVII victory over the Oakland Raiders, the first championship in Tampa Bay franchise history. Derrick Brooks, Hall of Famer and the linebacker who played alongside Rice for six seasons, was direct about what Rice's free-agent decision to choose Tampa Bay meant: "Simeon [was] one of the best, if not the best, pass-rushers of my generation. I want to thank [him] for choosing Tampa when [he was] a free agent to make our defense complete." In 2025, the Buccaneers inducted Rice as the 16th member of their Ring of Honor. The custom orange jersey signed by Rice is the piece that carries the autograph of the player Brooks called the best pass-rusher of his generation — in the franchise colorway that the Tampa Bay faithful have carried through four decades of Buccaneers football.

This Tampa Bay Buccaneers Custom Orange Football Jersey with sewn-in name and numbers has been hand-signed by Simeon Rice with a bold, clean autograph. Authentication is provided by Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) with their tamper-proof hologram, verifiable at Beckett's official website.

Product Highlights

• Hand-signed by Simeon Rice — Super Bowl XXXVII champion, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Ring of Honor (2025), 122-sack career pass rusher
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers Custom Orange Football Jersey with sewn-in name and numbers
• BAS authenticated — tamper-proof Beckett hologram, verifiable at Beckett's official website
• 122 career sacks — 23rd all-time in NFL history; 3 Pro Bowls; 1 First-Team All-Pro; 2 Second-Team All-Pro; 1996 Defensive Rookie of the Year
• Led the NFL in sacks from 1998-2005 with 101.5 — more than Hall of Famers Michael Strahan and Jason Taylor over the same eight-year span
• Super Bowl XXXVII champion: 2 sacks of league MVP Rich Gannon in the 48-21 victory over Oakland; 4 postseason sacks total in the Buccaneers' championship run
• Tampa Bay Ring of Honor — 2025: inducted as the 16th member, joining the four Hall of Famers from the same 2002 defensive roster (Brooks, Sapp, Lynch, Barber)
• Backed by our Lifetime Authenticity Guarantee

The Defense He Made Complete

To understand what Simeon Rice brought to the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it helps to understand what was already there before he arrived. Derrick Brooks — one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history, NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2002. Warren Sapp — the most dominant interior defensive tackle of his era, NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1999. John Lynch — nine Pro Bowls, considered one of the hardest-hitting safeties the game has produced. Ronde Barber — the only player in NFL history with 45+ interceptions and 25+ sacks. All four are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Rice joined that defense in 2001 as a free agent and immediately provided the one dimension it most needed: a pure pass-rush threat from the edge who could be counted on for double-digit sacks in every season he was healthy. He delivered 11.0 in 2001, 15.5 in 2002 (First-Team All-Pro), 15.0 in 2003, 12.0 in 2004, and 14.0 in 2005 — five consecutive seasons of at least 11 sacks, making Rice one of only five players in NFL history at the time to accomplish that for the same franchise. The custom orange jersey signed by Rice is the piece of the player Derrick Brooks specifically thanked for completing the defense that the Hall of Fame has otherwise recognized in full.

101.5 — The NFL's Sack Leader from 1998 to 2005

Michael Strahan won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award. He set the single-season sack record with 22.5 in 2001. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility. From 1998 to 2005, Simeon Rice had more sacks than Strahan. Rice's 101.5 sacks in that eight-year span led every defensive player in the NFL — outpacing Strahan, Jason Taylor, Dwight Freeney, and every other pass rusher of his generation across the same window of time. Rice's 122 career sacks rank 23rd all-time, accumulated in just 12 NFL seasons — a pace that compares favorably to every player on the all-time list ahead of him. His eight career 10+ sack seasons are tied for the seventh-most in NFL history, a company that consists almost entirely of Hall of Famers. His seven career postseason sacks — in just seven playoff starts — reflect the same production level sustained from the regular season into the games that matter most. The orange Buccaneers jersey signed by Rice carries the autograph of the pass rusher whose sustained production across eight years led every defensive player in the sport — regardless of what the Hall of Fame ballot has so far reflected.

Super Bowl XXXVII — The First Championship in Tampa Bay History

The 2002 Buccaneers' Super Bowl run was three playoff wins against the San Francisco 49ers, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Oakland Raiders. In those three games, Rice totaled 4.0 sacks. Two of them came in Super Bowl XXXVII itself — both sacks of Rich Gannon, the NFL's league MVP that season. Rice's first Super Bowl sack came on Oakland's opening possession, forcing the Raiders to settle for a field goal instead of a touchdown. The Buccaneers scored the next 34 points. Tampa Bay won 48-21, the most lopsided Super Bowl result at that time, and delivered the first championship in franchise history. Rice's 15.5 regular-season sacks had led the team and earned him First-Team All-Pro recognition. His 4.0 postseason sacks led the team again. The Super Bowl ring Rice earned that February is the credential the custom orange Buccaneers jersey most directly honors — the championship piece for the player who was the pass-rush engine of the most dominant defensive performance in a Super Bowl the sport had produced to that point.

Ring of Honor — 2025

In 2025, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers inducted Simeon Rice as the 16th member of their Ring of Honor — the fifth defensive player from the 2002 Super Bowl championship roster to receive the distinction, joining Brooks, Sapp, Lynch, and Barber. The Buccaneers' official statement described Rice's career as "Hall of Fame-worthy" and credited him with immediately elevating an already dominant defense into one of the greatest of all time upon his 2001 arrival. Rice ranks third in Buccaneers franchise history with 69.5 sacks in his six Tampa Bay seasons — behind only Pro Football Hall of Famers Lee Roy Selmon and Warren Sapp. He led the team in sacks for five consecutive seasons and owns five of the top-10 single-season sack totals in franchise history. The Ring of Honor induction is the most current available statement of how the Tampa Bay organization evaluates Rice's contribution — and the orange custom jersey signed by Rice is the piece in the franchise's most historically resonant colorway, signed by the player who has now formally joined its most honored class.

Authenticity

This jersey is certified by Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) with their tamper-proof hologram. The BAS hologram is affixed directly to the jersey and verifiable at Beckett's official website.

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