Bucs give Mike Evans 5 year, $82.5 million extension

[The Franchise]

Per NFL.com

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are locking in wide receiver Mike Evans for the long term.

Evans has agreed to a five-year, $82.5 million deal with the Buccaneers, a source informed of the situation told NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport. It includes $55 million in guarantees and a $16.5 million per-year average.

Buccaneers’ WR Mike Evans agreed to a 5-year, $82.5 million extension that includes $55 million guaranteed, per sources.

Evans now under contract through 2023 season.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 9, 2018

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by BWillie

He'll get a 3 year deal yeah? The 3rd year is going to suck. And so what. Kelce will be gone by then. Jones and/or Sneed will be gone.

Win now baby.

3peat or bust.

Go for it.

I saw a talking head say 4/$96MM. Who knows, but that sort of deal is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of our league, especially for a 31 year old dude.

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by Bl00dyBizkitz

Brett has definitely avoided big contracts to aging vets. Only exception was Mathieu and Clark when Mahomes was on the rookie contract, and even then id hardly consider those guys as "old".

You can maybe complain about the Taylor contract if you don't like him after this year, but there's no denying Taylor was a young, top 5ish RT at the time of signing him.

Brett's track record tells me he won't be throwing big money at this guy.

Agreed, but who's this Brett guy?

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I saw a talking head say 4/$96MM. Who knows, but that sort of deal is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of our league, especially for a 31 year old dude.

Wouldn't do 4 years but any 3 year deal with Evans and our current situation couldn't be that bad.

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I saw a talking head say 4/$96MM. Who knows, but that sort of deal is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of our league, especially for a 31 year old dude.

That probably seems about right. Some team with a rookie or second year QB could really use his professionalism, reliability, and abilities to develop and gain confidence. And if you are Evans, who already has a Super Bowl, you are probably taking the last big payday as opposed to really valuing going to a Super Bowl team like the Chiefs.

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

That probably seems about right. Some team with a rookie or second year QB could really use his professionalism, reliability, and abilities to develop and gain confidence. And if you are Evans, who already has a Super Bowl, you are probably taking the last big payday as opposed to really valuing going to a Super Bowl team like the Chiefs.

Houston

[ThyKingdomCome15]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

I saw a talking head say 4/$96MM. Who knows, but that sort of deal is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY out of our league, especially for a 31 year old dude.

At 31 years old that makes no sense for any team.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Hoover

Houston

Yep

[scho63]

We want a good receiver seeking their first Super Bowl or even making the playoffs.

I think Veach will find us one at a good price.

[Dunerdr]

It's okay to like Mike and understand that he doesn't make sense for the Chiefs for age and money reasons.

[Hoover]

I think we are going to shop for WR in the discount bin. We are going to get a WR who's cut because the money doesn't make sense any longer with the bonus of it not impacting our comp pick compensation.

[Why Not?]

Evans coming here was/is the pipeist of pipe dreams (for some. I know he’s a great player but I’ve never been super enthralled for whatever reason). We’re gonna shop in the cheaper bin for a chain mover. Deep threat either gonna be cheap Hollywood or Mooney or addressed via draft.

[Dunerdr]

Originally Posted by Why Not?

Evans coming here was/is the pipeist of pipe dreams (for some. I know he’s a great player but I’ve never been super enthralled for whatever reason). We’re gonna shop in the cheaper bin for a chain mover. Deep threat either gonna be cheap Hollywood or Mooney or addressed via draft.

I'm all in the Hollywood boat. Coming back around on Mooney after being down on him for drops after watching some games this year.

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Dunerdr

I'm all in the Hollywood boat. Coming back around on Mooney after being down on him for drops after watching some games this year.

Hollywood makes some sense for sure, especially if they jettison MVS (which I think is a high likelihood at this point). It appears HB is looking for a 3-4 year $15MM/yr type deal, but a 1-yr "prove it" deal like JuJu is possible as well. That might make more sense for the Chiefs than anything else.

[Hoover]

I'd love Brown on a 1 year deal, but highly doubt he would do that

[Megatron96]

Originally Posted by Hoover

And that may be true, but I just don't think Brown is the right guy. Maybe I'm wrong, but the deep threat in KC isn't going to get 100 targets. We are not going to take that many shots per game. Tyreek his final two years was a procession WR because defenses took away the over the top stuff.

I just think if we paid Brown, we are going to be disappointed. Just like we were with Sammy Watkins, and MVS. I'd rather draft and develop another one, and go get a Moody or something at the same price point.

Take the total targets for both MVS/JWat; 97 I believe. We'll just ignore Mecole's 'deep' targets for the time being.

Now, not all of those were 'deep' targets, but if we had a Mike Evans, you could expect around that number of targets for a player like him in this offense. I mean, who really cares how many targets JWat actually gets if we had Mike Evans?

I think it's moot anyway; Evans is going to get at least $25 million/yr, and we can't afford that.