{"id":785881,"date":"2026-03-02T04:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/785881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:13:14","slug":"buccaneers-send-mixed-signals-about-evans-as-march-9-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/785881\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers Send Mixed Signals about Evans as March 9 Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Evans&#8217; agent addresses the receiver&#8217;s future, free-agency plans, and Super Bowl aspirations as Tampa Bay pushes to keep its star wideout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View More<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>Is Mike Evans&#8217; time in Tampa Bay over?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s entering year thirteen.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still just as strong, just as formidable, just as dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>But for the first time, there seems to be a question mark of sorts between Tampa Bay and Mike Evans.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs front office has made it pretty clear that they still want him back.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, they&#8217;re also okay with him testing the market and figuring out what works best for him.<\/p>\n<p>And at this point in his career, frankly, that says a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Evans, on the other hand, is after another Super Bowl run, and considering Tampa Bay&#8217;s run last year, last season, it wasn&#8217;t exactly Super Bowl ready.<\/p>\n<p>With missing the playoffs and a late-season collapse, it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s ready to contend for a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Even Evans had his own, you know, downfalls last season, and, he had a couple of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, when he was healthy, he was a number one massive downfield presence, and he had amazing chemistry with Baker Mayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the injury slowed him down, but his impact is still pretty much over there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Evans&#8217; agent addresses the receiver&#8217;s future, free-agency plans, and Super Bowl aspirations as Tampa Bay pushes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,7,700,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-785881","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-football","10":"tag-mike-evans","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-tampa-bay","13":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116157638620602998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785881","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=785881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}