{"id":509700,"date":"2026-03-09T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509700"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:25:16","slug":"star-wide-receiver-evans-is-leaving-tampa-bay-to-ink-with-49ers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/star-wide-receiver-evans-is-leaving-tampa-bay-to-ink-with-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Star wide receiver Evans is leaving Tampa Bay to ink with 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran WR Mike Evans is leaving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to ink a 3-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers that is worth over 60 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTampa Bay made it clear they would have loved for Evans to finish his time in the NFL with the team and potentially become just the 4<sup>th<\/sup> footballer in the Bucs history to spend his entire career with them and ultimately walk into Canton representing the franchise,\u201d his agent revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvans\u2019 choice to leave the Buccaneers was never about money. Tampa Bay was extremely aggressive in its pursuit and offered him a huge contract, demonstrating that he is crucial for them and for what he has meant to Tampa Bay. In the end, Evans just wanted to try something new and play for a contender while he is still at the top level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike, the 7<sup>th<\/sup> overall draft selection 12 years ago and 1<sup>st<\/sup>-ever draft selection by Tampa Bay GM Jason Licht, the star wide receiver spent 12 campaigns with the organization, becoming the team\u2019s all-time leading scorer with 662 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Six-time Pro Bowl WR Mike Evans is signing a three-year deal with the 49ers, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomPelissero?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TomPelissero<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Rapsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is headed to San Francisco after 12 seasons in Tampa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q9gk9FeT1y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Q9gk9FeT1y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/2031076137741201427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran WR Mike Evans is leaving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to ink a 3-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers that is worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509701,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[27060,16750],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[21314,18185],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Mike will leave the Buccaneers and continue his career in the Bay.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509702,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509700\/revisions\/509702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509700"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509700"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}