Mike Evans shares what provides him ‘extra motivation’ in contract yr
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers raised some eyebrows after they used the 2025 NFL Draft so as to add rookies Emeka Egbuka and Tez Johnson to a large receiver room that was already stacked with expertise.
Whereas talking with reporters on Thursday, star Tampa Bay wideout Mike Evans addressed sharing a locker room with Egbuka and Johnson.
“It provides me extra motivation,” Evans defined, as shared by Bailey Adams of Pewter Report. “I used to be as soon as in these footwear, and I do not forget that starvation. It helps me hold that starvation, seeing younger, nice gamers like that [who] are hungry.”
In response to ESPN stats, the Tampa Bay offense led by quarterback Baker Mayfield completed the 2024 common season ranked third within the NFL with a mean of 250.4 passing yards per recreation and fourth with a mean of 29.5 factors scored per contest. Nonetheless, the Buccaneers grabbed Egbuka with general draft choose No. 19 amid Chris Godwin’s ongoing restoration from the grotesque dislocated left ankle he suffered final October.
“I say it yearly, however we at all times get nice gamers coming in,” Evans famous. “That’s been very lucky for me in my profession, to be round a variety of nice younger gamers. They’ve added to the room tremendously. They’re very polished already. Emeka has actually sturdy arms. [He’s] tremendous good. Tez [has] velocity and quickness. …[Egbuka] appears to be like like a working again, however he catches like Chris Godwin. He’s very polished, very well-rounded participant.”
In the meantime, Evans is about to enter the ultimate season of the two-year contract he signed in March 2024. The 31-year-old has solely performed for the Buccaneers since they made him a first-round draft choose within the spring of 2014.
“Actually, I haven’t even thought of it,” Evans responded when requested Thursday about probably taking part in in a contract yr, per the JoeBucsFan web site. “I simply thought of having an incredible yr this yr, after which we’ll see what occurs.”
As identified by Scott Smith of the Buccaneers’ web site, Evans and Corridor of Famer Jerry Rice are the one gamers in NFL historical past to surpass 1,000 receiving yards for at the very least 11 seasons in a row. Evans appeared to have loads left within the tank as lately as this previous January, however questions on his future might hover over the Buccaneers except he places pen to paper on an extension this summer season.
