{"id":474874,"date":"2026-02-18T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:07:07","slug":"mike-evans-plans-to-play-in-2026-will-explore-free-agency-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474874\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans plans to play in 2026, will explore free agency options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Evans said late in the 2025 season that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/mike-evans-will-think-about-2026-when-the-time-is-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he would think<\/a> about his playing future when the time was right and it appears that process has come to an end for the veteran wideout. <\/p>\n<p>Evans\u2019s agent Deryk Gilmore told multiple reporters that Evans plans to play in 2026. Evans is set to become a free agent in March and Gilmore said that he plans to explore all options for where he will play. <\/p>\n<p>One of those options could be a return to Tampa for a 13th season. Evans has spent his entire career with the Buccaneers, who have Chris Godwin, Emeka Egbuka, and Jalen McMillan set to return at receiver. <\/p>\n<p>Evans was limited to eight games by hamstring and collarbone injuries last season. He had 30 catches for 368 yards and three touchdowns in those appearances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Evans said late in the 2025 season that he would think about his playing future when the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-474874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}