{"id":809264,"date":"2026-03-13T02:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/809264\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:29:19","slug":"mike-evans-considered-signing-with-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/809264\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Considered Signing With Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dozen years into a potential Hall of Fame career, wide receiver Mike Evans<\/a> left the Buccaneers for the 49ers on Monday. Discussing the decision on Thursday, Evans told reporters he entered free agency seeking a contender with a good quarterback (via Matt Maiocco of NBC Sports California<\/a>). He found that in San Francisco, which reeled him in with a three-year offer<\/a> worth a base value of $42.4MM.<\/p>\n

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The 32-year-old Evans will go forward with Brock Purdy<\/a> as his quarterback, but he also considered moving to Buffalo to team with Josh Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was looking at here, Buffalo Bills, teams that needed a No. 1 wide receiver,\u201d Evans said. \u201cI liked this place. This was my No. 1 spot on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is unclear if the Bills were aggressive in pursuing Evans, especially after they acquired<\/a> the pricey D.J. Moore<\/a> from the Bears last week. However, if the Bills brought in Evans to pair with Moore, it would have given them a much better outside receiver duo than they had last year. The Bills have a quality slot target in\u00a0Khalil Shakir<\/a>, but the rest of their wideouts underwhelmed in 2025.<\/p>\n

Former second-round pick Keon Coleman<\/a> did not progress as hoped during a year in which former head coach Sean McDermott made him a healthy scratch four times. Meanwhile, Josh Palmer<\/a> and Curtis Samuel<\/a> struggled to produce during injury-shortened years. To no surprise, the Bills released<\/a> Samuel last Friday. Late-season pickup Brandin Cooks<\/a> is also a free agent.\u00a0Tyrell Shavers<\/a> is under contract, but he will miss time next season after tearing his ACL in a wild-card round win over the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

As things stand, Coleman and Palmer are Buffalo\u2019s top boundary receivers beyond Moore. There is clearly still room for improvement, whether it comes by way of a dwindling free agent market, another trade or the draft.<\/p>\n

Jauan Jennings<\/a>, the 49ers\u2019 most productive receiver in 2025, may be the No. 1 option left in free agency. The 49ers have already lost auxiliary wideout Kendrick Bourne<\/a> to the Cardinals, but they now have Evans slotting in with Ricky Pearsall<\/a> atop their receiving corps. The 49ers are counting on healthier seasons for both players. Multiple injuries \u2013 including a hamstring strain and a broken clavicle \u2013 limited Evans to eight games in 2025 and denied him a record-setting 12th straight 1,000-yard season. Knee problems held Pearsall to nine games during the second year of his career.<\/p>\n

Despite injuries to Pearsall and a slew of other noteworthy contributors, the 49ers went 12-5 and advanced to the divisional round last season. During their run to a Super Bowl title, the NFC West rival Seahawks knocked the 49ers out of the postseason in a 41-6 blowout. But Evans, who won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, is confident he will help San Francisco get over the hump next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with all the injuries last year \u2026 I feel like they were one piece away,\u201d the six-time Pro Bowler said (via Nick Wagoner of ESPN<\/a>). \u201cAnd I think that I am that piece. I look forward to coming here and proving that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dozen years into a potential Hall of Fame career, wide receiver Mike Evans left the Buccaneers for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,700,6,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-809264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-mike-evans","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116219516004335627","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809264","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=809264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}