Mike Evans May Get Bonus Cash For Hitting 1,000 Yards | Pewter Report

Bucs vast receiver Mike Evans isn’t just chasing historical past this week in opposition to the Saints within the 2024 common season finale. He’s additionally chasing a paycheck within the type of a pay enhance in 2025.

Evans has a LTBE (prone to be earned) contract incentive that can push his $18 million base wage to $21 million subsequent 12 months if he hits 70 catches and data 1,000 receiving yards. The 31-year outdated receiver has 65 catches for 915 yards on the 12 months with one sport left.

If Evans catches 5 passes for 85 yards in opposition to New Orleans he’ll hit that LTBE incentive that’s value $3 million. So not solely does Evans have an opportunity so as to add one other 1,000-yard season to his Corridor of Fame resumé on Sunday, but additionally put some more cash in his pocket subsequent season, which would be the remaining 12 months of the star receiver’s two-year contract.

Evans is already poised to money in on a $666,000 bonus for being throughout the High 10 receiving touchdowns this 12 months within the NFL. Evans has 11 touchdowns thus far, which ranks fourth within the league. It’s a protected guess that he hits that bonus with only one sport left.

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Bucs WR Mike Evans Picture by: USA At the moment

Only a few NFL receivers have put up the mix of yards and touchdowns that Mike Evans has in his 11 years within the league. And nobody has performed what Evans has performed in Tampa Bay earlier than. Evans now ranks twenty fourth all-time in receiving yards with 12,595 yards, and ranks ninth all-time with 105 receiving touchdowns.

Evans has double-digit touchdowns in six of his 11 NFL seasons thus far, and set the franchise’s single-season receiving landing document with 14 TDs in 2021. Evans had 13 touchdowns final 12 months and has an opportunity to tie that mark with a pair of scores on Sunday in opposition to New Orleans or tie his single-season document with a trio of TD.

Evans has already set an NFL document for essentially the most consecutive seasons to begin a profession with 1,000 yards. The Bucs’ first-round decide in 2014 has ripped off 1,000 receiving yards for the previous 10 straight years.

Former Bucs DT Warren Sapp and former 49ers QB Steve Younger

He enters Week 18 needing simply 85 yards to not solely prolong that streak to 11 straight seasons, but additionally tie legendary Corridor of Fame receiver Jerry Rice, who performed for the 49ers, Raiders and Seahawks in his illustrious 22-year NFL profession, for essentially the most 1,000-yard seasons consecutively at any level in a profession.

Rice missed out on 1,000 yards as a rookie in San Francisco, ending with 927 yards in 1985. However he had 11 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons beginning with the next season in 1986 and operating by means of 1996.

Paradoxically it was the Bucs who stopped Rice’s streak of 1,000-yard seasons. Rice tore his ACL on an end-around in Tampa Bay within the 1997 season opener when defensive deal with Warren Sapp grabbed his facemask and dragged him to the bottom, inflicting his knee to buckle.

The Buccaneers upset the 49ers, 13-7, that day as 49ers quarterback Steve Younger was additionally knocked out of the sport with a concussion after center linebacker Hardy Nickerson by accident kneed Younger within the head after Sapp sacked him.

Mike Evans’ Statistical Manufacturing

Mike Evans has recorded 1,000 receiving yards in 10 straight years, however barely achieved that mark in a few these seasons. With Evans needing 85 yards in opposition to the Saints on Sunday to proceed his receiving yardage document into an eleventh straight 12 months, he’ll barely prime 1,000 yards once more this season if he’s profitable.

2014 – 68 catches, 1051 yards, 12 touchdowns2015 – 74 catches, 1,206 yards, 3 touchdowns2016 – 96 catches, 1,321 yards, 12 touchdowns2017 – 71 catches, 1,001 yards, 5 touchdowns2018 – 86 catches, 1,524 yards, 8 touchdowns2019 – 67 catches, 1,157 yards, 8 touchdowns2020 – 70 catches, 1,006 yards, 13 touchdowns2021 – 74 catches, 1,035 yards, 14 touchdowns2022 – 77 catches, 1,124 yards, 6 touchdowns2023 – 79 catches, 1,225 yards, 13 touchdowns2024 – 65 catches, 915 yards, 11 touchdowns