A true iron man, cornerback Ronde Barber never missed a game due to injury during his entire 16-year NFL career, which was spent exclusively with the Buccaneers. Barber played in just one game as a rookie in 1997 but moved into the starting lineup midway through the 1998 campaign. His consecutive starts streak actually began in 1999, however, because he did not start in the ninth game of that campaign, against Kansas City on Nov. 14. On Nov. 21, 1999, Barber started in a home win over Atlanta, and he would never miss another opening snap until his retirement after the 2012 season. Barber's streak is not only a franchise record, it also represents the longest starting run for any cornerback in NFL history. He started the first game of 2012 at cornerback to extend that streak to 200, then spent the rest of his final season starting at safety.

Like Barber, Brooks never missed a game due to injury in his career, which spanned 224 outings over 14 seasons. In fact, Brooks never missed a game, period, and he almost never missed the first defensive snap, coming in as a reserve for just three games during his 1995 rookie campaign. Even those three non-starts were nothing more than coincidence; the Bucs started those games in a nickel package and at the time it was Brooks who came out for an extra defensive back. Brooks' consecutive starts streak officially began on opening day in 1996, in a Sept. 1 game against Green Bay at old Houlihan's Stadium. It came to an end when his spectacular NFL career did, in the 2008 season finale against Oakland at Raymond James Stadium on Dec. 28. Brooks will be a first-time-eligible candidate for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in February.

Mayberry followed two other long-tenured players who manned the center position for Tampa Bay in Steve Wilson and Randy Grimes. Between the three of them, they started 324 of a possible 331 non-replacement games for the Buccaneers from the last month of the 1977 season through the end of the 1999 campaign. Mayberry accounted for the largest chunk of those games, starting 145 times during his 10-year career, all of which came with the Buccaneers. Essentially, Mayberry was the team's center for exactly the decade of the '90s, as he was drafted in the fourth round in 1990 and he retired after the 1999 season. The three-time Pro Bowler started the first game of his rookie campaign in place of an injured Grimes, then took over the job for good to start 1991, thus beginning his own run of starts that would last the rest of his career.

A long-time fan favorite and eventual Bay area broadcaster, the late David Logan rose from the modest roots of a 12th-round draft pick in 1979 (number 307 overall!) to stalwart on the Buccaneers' defensive line for the better part of a decade. Logan opened his rookie season on injured reserve (a player could come off the I.R. list during the season in those days) but he moved into the starting lineup at defensive tackle three games into the 1980 campaign and then stayed there unwaveringly for seven seasons. In all, he made 103 straight starts, beginning with a Sept. 21, 1980 game at Dallas and ending on Dec. 21, 1986 in St. Louis. That was also his last game with the Buccaneers, as he played two games for Green Bay in 1987 before calling it a career.

Donald Penn's streak started unassumingly in Indianapolis in the fifth week of the 2007 campaign on October 7. A former undrafted free agent out of Utah State with the Minnesota Vikings, he had signed with the Buccaneers in October of the previous year but hadn't played a down in 2006. But when starting left tackle Luke Petitgout went down with a season-ending knee injury at Carolina in Week Four, the relatively unknown Penn stepped in and performed well. Penn hasn't left the lineup since. He started the last 12 games of the 2007 season and was such a revelation that he was entrenched at one of the most important positions on the field by the start of the next year. Gradually gaining recognition as one of the best left tackles in the NFL, Penn rose to Pro Bowl status in 2010. On Sunday in Seattle, he'll make his 100th consecutive start, further establishing himself as one of the top performers in franchise history.