{"id":646562,"date":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/646562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T22:23:10","slug":"mike-evans-injury-update-status-vs-panthers-in-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/646562\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans injury update, status vs. Panthers in Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Week 18, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/362\" data-autotag=\"0975654b-7314-4c6a-8b1d-0052f65c0335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> and Mike Evans clash with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Kickoff is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/nfl\/?irad=377812&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=dataskrive&amp;subId2=NFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Watch Mike Evans and the Buccaneers vs. Panthers on Fubo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will Mike Evans play this week?Evans (did not participate in practice, rest) is on the injury report this week. He does not currently have a game status listed.The Buccaneers have listed one other receiver on the injury report this week:Devin Culp (FP\/knee): 1 Rec; 6 Rec Yds; 1 Rec TDMike Evans&#8217; 2025 statsEvans has 28 grabs for 334 yards and three scores this year. He has been targeted 59 times, and puts up 47.7 yards per contest.Buccaneers&#8217; next gameMatchup: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Carolina PanthersTime: 4:30 p.m. ETDate: January 3, 2026TV channel: ABC\/ESPNLive stream: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/nfl\/?irad=377812&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=dataskrive&amp;subId2=NFL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fubo<\/a> (Regional restrictions may apply)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/nfl\/?irad=377812&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=dataskrive&amp;subId2=NFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Watch Mike Evans and the Buccaneers vs. Panthers on Fubo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike Evans&#8217; 2025 game logWeek 1 at Falcons: 8 TAR, 5 REC, 51 YDS, 0 TDWeek 2 at Texans: 11 TAR, 5 REC, 56 YDS, 0 TDWeek 3 vs. Jets: 8 TAR, 4 REC, 33 YDS, 1 TDWeek 7 at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" data-autotag=\"a9d615a6-a025-4346-9c29-28956ed45852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lions<\/a>: 4 TAR, 0 REC, 0 YDS, 0 TDWeek 15 vs. Falcons: 12 TAR, 6 REC, 132 YDS, 0 TDWeek 16 at Panthers: 9 TAR, 5 REC, 31 YDS, 1 TDWeek 17 at Dolphins: 7 TAR, 3 REC, 31 YDS, 1 TD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/stream\/nfl\/?irad=377812&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=dataskrive&amp;subId2=NFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Watch Mike Evans and the Buccaneers vs. Panthers on Fubo!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Week 18, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Mike Evans clash with the Carolina Panthers at Raymond James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[821,247,265,357,5275,210,1107,211,235,260,2567,868,867,877,321,58663,146,113,2605,43888,1109,12,388,6880,864,3203,876,12716,380,7,1134,866,20842,379,147,3198,1458,700,330,88,6,35196,869,245,338,236,3197,818,865,2764,817,829,9,1115,266,819,209,250,3199,776,1108],"class_list":["post-646562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-carolina-panthers","tag-affiliate","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-and","tag-autopilot","tag-bay","tag-betting","tag-buccaneers","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-commerce","tag-contains","tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-content","tag-culp","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-devin","tag-devin-culp","tag-disclaimer","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-evans","tag-exclude","tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-exclude-smart-fronts","tag-exclude-social-autopilot","tag-florida","tag-football","tag-from","tag-fronts","tag-hub","tag-inc","tag-lions","tag-logic","tag-mike","tag-mike-evans","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-or","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-panthers","tag-paywall","tag-scores","tag-smart","tag-social","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting-widget-and-disclaimer","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-testing","tag-u0026","tag-widget"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646562","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=646562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}