During a time where everyone is talking about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their cap space future, Mike Evans has been the biggest name in discussion by far.

In sticking with that notion and going off where the Bucs can and can't move, it is impossible to talk about Evans' future without discussing Devin White's.

While White isn't the only player that could potentially bar Evan's return to Tampa after this season, a mistake by the Bucs with White could seal Evans' fate for good.

Devin White is a face of the Buccaneers. There is no way around that fact.

A positive force in the locker room, largely unproblematic, and a galvanizing force for a team that has needed that personality type for a while, White has done well for the Bucs since they drafted him.

However, the things working against White have been his inconsistency as a player and his position relative to his draft spot.

White has done very well as far as stats are concerned, but he does have two good years and two bad years when it is all said and done. That by itself is hard enough to acknowledge when it comes to paying a player as one of the best at his position in the sport, even if he does play well in year five to tip the scales in his favor.

As for his position, White plays the most replaceable position on the defense. In the same way that the NFL has tanked the value of running backs, linebackers, especially backers that aren't great against the pass, are going to stop getting blockbuster deals very soon.

The Buccaneers need to recognize these facts. Paying White after this year, even if he plays well, is going to make other names that much harder to keep. 

Sure, fans would love to see Evans stay, but other players like Antoine Winfield Jr. and Tristan Wirfs are inching closer to blockbuster deals of their own.

Priorities exist, and the Bucs choosing to prioritize the wrong position could prove disastrous.

Buccaneers have impossible decision to make with WR Mike Evans

It won’t be easy for the Buccaneers.