{"id":803459,"date":"2026-03-10T01:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803459\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:51:15","slug":"updated-contract-details-for-49ers-wr-mike-evans-the-guarantees-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/803459\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated contract details for 49ers WR Mike Evans: The guarantees are in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/2031162733928800439?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ari Meirov on Twitter<\/a>, we finally have the guarantees for the San Francisco 49ers\u2019 newest wide receiver, Mike Evans. The initial deal was said to be for three years, $60 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meirov said Evans\u2019 deal is worth $42.4 million, with $16.3 million in guarantees. That comes out to $14.13 million annually. That is 41st in guarantees for wide receivers as of signing. We\u2019re talking about what first-round picks at the position from recent draft classes get.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For reference, the Rams gave Davante Adams a two-year contract worth $26 milion in guarantees as a 33-year-old last season. Realistically, it\u2019s probably a deal that gives the Niners an out after the first year if it doesn\u2019t work out, but closer to a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 49ers can use the third year as a \u201cghost\u201d year that will automatically void, allowing them to spread out his signing bonus over an extra year. That\u2019s what the Rams did with Adams contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Adams doesn\u2019t have nearly the injury history of Evans. He missed three games this past season with a right hamstring injury. He missed two games with a hamstring injury in 2024, but hadn\u2019t missed a game since 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both players are from the same draft class, but Evans is actually a year younger than Adams. This is the 49ers protecting themselves from Evans lingering hamstring issues. The deal is surprisingly affordable for a player who had 1,000 yards receiving in every season up until this past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">You don\u2019t reach 1,000 yards by playing 60 percent of the games. It\u2019s fair to be concerned about Evans re-injuring his hamstring, but there is enough evidence in his favor going back a decade that suggests Evans will be on the field the majority of the time. When that\u2019s happened, he\u2019s produced at a WR1 level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even if this ends up being a one-year deal for Evans, it is at $14 million for the caliber of receiver he is and how much higher he makes the ceiling of the 49ers\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Ari Meirov on Twitter, we finally have the guarantees for the San Francisco 49ers\u2019 newest wide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,52326,11490,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-803459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-free-agency","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-salary-cap","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116202378946669636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803459","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=803459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}