{"id":751869,"date":"2026-02-14T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:32:15","slug":"mike-evans-and-the-retirement-puzzle-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/751869\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans And The Retirement Puzzle &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMike Evans And The Retirement Puzzle<br \/>\nFebruary 14th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/evans-0909c.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381904\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/evans-0909c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"333\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-381904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where is he leaning?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So will Mike Evans retire? Will he play for the Bucs? The hand-wringing continues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tentatively, Bucs AC\/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht and Bucs coach Todd Bowles will speak in about a week and a half at the combine in downtown Indianapolis. There, they might reveal Evans\u2019 decision timeline or if he is leaning toward playing or hanging up his cleats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Evans is scheduled to be a free agent when the free agency dinner bell rings on Monday, March 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over at ESPN, Jenna Laine\u00a0types that Evans is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47908954\/2026-nfl-offseason-biggest-questions-afc-nfc-free-agency-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cless likely\u201d to retire<\/a>. Of course, this begs the question, less likely than what? Less likely than Lavonte David? Laine didn\u2019t detail any estimate for either player.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Baker Mayfield said recently to another Bucs legend, Rond\u00e9 Barber, he feels Evans has plenty more fire in his belly and gas in the tank to return. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/01\/baker-mayfield-is-confident-mike-evans-will-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">return to the Bucs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/01\/baker-mayfield-is-confident-mike-evans-will-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baker Mayfield Is Confident Mike Evans Will Return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Evans And The Retirement Puzzle February 14th, 2026 Where is he leaning? So will Mike Evans retire?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-751869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751869","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=751869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}