{"id":268081,"date":"2026-03-09T14:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=268081"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:48:12","slug":"six-time-pro-bowl-108-td-receiver-agrees-to-contract-with-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2026\/03\/09\/six-time-pro-bowl-108-td-receiver-agrees-to-contract-with-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-Time Pro Bowl, 108-TD Receiver Agrees to Contract With 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest receiver in the history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/buccaneers\/\" target=\"_self\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/EvanMi00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Evans<\/a>, has a new contract for 2026. The 12-year veteran and the San Francisco 49ers have come to terms on a three-year, up to $60.4 million contract. Once a first-round pick of the Buccaneers, Evans spent each of his first 12 seasons in the NFL with the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB0o0llPxN\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 6264px; aspect-ratio: 6264\/4178;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h2>Mike Evans, 49ers, Agrees to Contract<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ESPN sources: former Buccaneers six-time Pro-Bowl WR Mike Evans is expected to sign a three-year deal with the San Francisco 49ers. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wXhuDjqX0N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/wXhuDjqX0N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2031075093103698080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the seventh-overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, the Buccaneers took Evans after a successful career at Texas A&amp;M. From the jump, Evans proved himself to be one of the top receivers in the league, amassing 1,051 yards and 12 touchdowns as a rookie. He ended up finishing third in Offensive Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n<p>From there, Evans rattled off an additional 10 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. He owns the NFL record for most 1,000-yard seasons to open a career and is tied with Randy Moss for the second-most 1,000-yard seasons overall, behind Randy Moss (14).<\/p>\n<p>Over that run of 11 consecutive 1,000-yard performances, Evans led the NFL in targets in 2016 and in touchdowns in 2023. To this point in his career, Evans has finished with double-digit touchdowns six times, including a run from 2020 through 2024, when he did so four times in five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Last year saw the end of that run. Evans only appeared in eight games for the Buccaneers, finishing with 368 yards and three scores.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Evans owns Tampa Bay records for career receiving yards (13,052), receptions (866), and touchdowns (108) by a considerable margin. He also owns the single-season mark in yards (1,524 in 2018) and each of the top six single-season records for touchdowns; only two other players in Buccaneers history finished with 10 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all of these accolades, he never finished a season with over 100 receptions. In his career, Evans earned Pro Bowl honors six times and was named to the AP second-team All-Pro team twice, most recently in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Evans is 21st all-time in receiving yards and has the second-most among active players (DeAndre Hopkins, 13,295). He&#8217;s 31st all-time in receptions and sixth among active players. In terms of touchdowns, Evans is 10th all-time and second among active players (Davante Adams, 117).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 12 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Mike Evans moves on as the career leader in every statistical category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4051,"featured_media":268193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,31],"tags":[984,1608,7325],"class_list":["post-268081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-49ers","tag-mike-evans","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news"],"modified_by":"Drew Crabtree","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268578,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268081\/revisions\/268578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}