{"id":759823,"date":"2026-02-18T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/759823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:16:15","slug":"mike-evans-will-play-in-2026-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/759823\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Will Play In 2026! &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMike Evans Will Play In 2026!<br \/>\nFebruary 17th, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/evans-1108.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-281469\" class=\"size-full wp-image-281469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/evans-1108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"386\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-281469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plans to return.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Future Hall of Fame wide receiver Mike Evans is going to play this season. It seems the Bucs may get first dibs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47958580\/agent-wr-mike-evans-plans-play-13th-nfl-season-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">This fantastic news<\/a> was delivered by Jenna Laine of ESPN. Apparently, Evans\u2019 agent called the Bucs today to let the Bucs know he will play this fall and to see if they can come to an agreement on the money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gilmore notified the team Tuesday of Evans\u2019 intention to continue playing and they agreed that Evans will sit down with the Bucs in the coming weeks. They can come to an agreement on a contract extension at any time. Up until this point, the team was not clear if he would be continuing to play or possibly retiring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So there you have it. As Baker Mayfield predicted, Evans as a fire in his belly to play more football and to win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe would be very surprised if Evans is not playing for the Bucs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Will Play In 2026! February 17th, 2026 Plans to return. Future Hall of Fame wide receiver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2599,2598,7,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-759823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116090411814187200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759823","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=759823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}