{"id":130714,"date":"2025-06-15T01:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/130714\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T01:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T01:50:12","slug":"mike-evans-calls-buccaneers-receiver-room-best-in-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/130714\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Calls Buccaneers Receiver Room Best in NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Evans Calls Buccaneers Receiver Room Best in NFL<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Plenty of questions surround a receiver rooms for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that is in a sense in transition … and yet with the arrow pointing up.<\/p>\n

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All-Pro Mike Evans is 31 years old, Chris Godwin is recovering from significant injuries, and first-round pick Emeka Egbuka will compete with second-year receiver Jalen McMillan for playing time.<\/p>\n

Despite all the concerns this position group carries, one fact remains.<\/p>\n

When healthy, this is one of the best receiving rooms in the league.<\/p>\n

Evans argued that – and more – during minicamp this week. The Pro Bowl receiver felt that the entire receiver room could be the best in the league from top to bottom.<\/p>\n

“I know I say it a lot, but this might be the best receiver room I’ve been a part of,” Evans said<\/a>. “I say it every year, but we always get great players coming in, so that’s been very fortunate for me in my career to be around a lot of great young players, and they’ve added to the room tremendously.<\/p>\n

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“They’re very polished already. Emeka, really strong hands, super smart. Tez (another rookie in Johnson), speed, quickness.”<\/p>\n

Life is certainly made easy for Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield if all his weapons are to be available. The former first-overall pick from 2018 throws the football to top-notch guys on every down.<\/p>\n

Evans may end up having undersold the group … if they can find a way to stay healthy.<\/p>\n

In fact, if Evans and Goodwin and company achieve big things in the playoffs? They have the potential to be considered one of the better grou[s of the era .. considering a first-round rookie from this year may only be good enough as a fourth-option this season.<\/p>\n

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Tampa Bay’s offense should be one of the best in the NFL in 2025. Mayfield will play a key role in that, as will the unit’s offensive line.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, though, with as deep as their receivers room is? Evans and company might carry the load.<\/p>\n

Related: Antonio Brown Responds To Attempted Murder Charge With New Statement and Bicycle Ride Video<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Buccaneers’ Mike Evans Drinking From Fountain Of Youth In 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 14, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Calls Buccaneers Receiver Room Best in NFL originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Plenty of questions surround…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[1842,211,699,702,7,4080,700,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-130714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-baker-mayfield","9":"tag-buccaneers","10":"tag-chris-godwin","11":"tag-emeka-egbuka","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jalen-mcmillan","14":"tag-mike-evans","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-tampa-bay","17":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","18":"tag-tampabay","19":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114684875678530218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}