{"id":647179,"date":"2026-01-02T04:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:01:29","slug":"mike-evans-week-18-preview-vs-the-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647179\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Week 18 Preview vs. the Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans will face a middle-of-the-pack pass defense in Week 18 (Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET), up against the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers are ranked 14th in terms of passing yards allowed, at 204.3 per game.<\/p>\n<p>Evans&#8217; 28 grabs have turned into 334 yards (47.7 per game) and three TDs so far this year. He has been targeted on 59 occasions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62735?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1441&amp;pb=959275&amp;cid=zLOmV3lHkM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch this game on Fubo<\/a> (Regional restrictions may apply).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on <a href=\"https:\/\/98rock.iheart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">98 Rock<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evans vs. the Panthers<\/p>\n<p>Evans vs the Panthers (since 2021): 14 GP \/ 75.6 REC YPG \/ 10 REC TD<br \/>\nCarolina has allowed five opposing receivers to amass 100 or more receiving yards in a game in the 2025 season.<br \/>\nThe Panthers have conceded a TD pass to 18 opposing players this year.<br \/>\nCarolina has allowed two or more TD receptions to just one opposing player on the season.<br \/>\nThe Panthers allow 204.3 passing yards per game, the NFL&#8217;s 14th-ranked pass defense this season.<br \/>\nThe Panthers&#8217; defense is ranked eighth in the league with 19 passing TDs allowed so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/62736?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=1422&amp;pb=959284&amp;cid=zLOmV3lHkM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Catch every NFL touchdown with NFL RedZone on Fubo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evans Receiving Insights<\/p>\n<p>Evans has hit the over on his receiving yards prop in one of seven games (14.3%).<br \/>\nEvans has been targeted on 59 of his team&#8217;s 536 passing attempts this season (11.0% target share).<br \/>\nHe has averaged 5.7 yards per target (334 yards on 59 targets).<br \/>\nEvans has three games with a touchdown catch this season (out of seven played). He hasn&#8217;t scored multiple touchdowns in any game.<br \/>\nHe has scored three of his team&#8217;s 38 offensive touchdowns this season (7.9%).<br \/>\nEvans (eight red zone targets) has been targeted 14.3% of the time in the red zone (56 total red zone pass attempts on the team).<\/p>\n<p>Get in the game and sign up for FanDuel Fantasy today. <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliates.routy.app\/route\/70562?affId=3147&amp;ts=5002712&amp;pa=4416&amp;cid=zLOmV3lHkM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Use our link<\/a> to start playing daily fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Evans&#8217; Recent Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans will face a middle-of-the-pack pass defense in Week 18 (Saturday at 4:30&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,61566,7,700,6,236,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-647179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-ds-sports","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-mike-evans","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers","16":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115823515093319315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647179","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=647179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}