Dallas Clark is a Tampa Bay Buc

UPDATE:  Clark has signed with Tampa Bay.

A vivid reminder of what tight end Dallas Clark meant to Iowa's football program was on display the other night on the Big Ten Network.

The BTN re-aired the Purdue-Iowa game of 2002, when Clark not only had a Kinnick Stadium-record 95-yard touchdown play on a basic pitch-and-catch, but caught the game-winning score on 4th-and-goal from the 7 with 1:07 left and the Hawkeyes trailing 28-24.

The following season, the former walk-on linebacker was with the Indianapolis Colts, and had been ever since until this offseason, when the Colts released him. The NFL is not sentimental. Concussions and all, you know.

But Clark won't be unemployed much longer. The Tampa Bay Times says Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Kellen Winslow says he is headed out the door, quite possibly to be replaced by Clark.

Here's what surprised me, though: Clark visited the New England Patriots last week. The Patriots are as deep in quality at tight end as perhaps any NFL team has ever been with Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, who combined for 169 catches last season. Who knows what lurks in the mind of Bill Belichick?

Clark missed 15 games to injuries over the last two seasons and he's 32.