{"id":869039,"date":"2026-04-18T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:27:59","slug":"49ers-news-mike-evans-explains-why-he-has-a-second-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/869039\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers news: Mike Evans explains why he has a \u2018second wind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve just been extremely blessed, bro,\u201d Evans told Warner. \u201cI really have to be in this position, and to stay healthy. I\u2019ve always had that competitiveness in me, since I was a kid. So that\u2019s really what it is. I\u2019m trying to prove people wrong and prove myself right. So that\u2019s what this is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Evans has been one of the NFL\u2019s most consistent receivers, surpassing 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first 11 seasons. His only dip came last year, when injuries limited him to eight games and snapped his historic streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt was unfortunate, but it kind of gave me a second wind,\u201d Evans said. \u201cI\u2019m a little bit fresher than I have been in years past, this offseason, and I\u2019m trying to use all the juice I\u2019ve got.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve just been extremely blessed, bro,\u201d Evans told Warner. \u201cI really have to be in this position, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,52307,7,6,1161,252,1137,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-869039","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-49ers-links","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116425003391034966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869039","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=869039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}