{"id":531063,"date":"2026-03-18T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531063\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:44:08","slug":"inside-the-mike-evans-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/531063\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Mike Evans deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Mike Evans picked his next team, multiple reports suggested that he was being offered $27 million per year<\/a>, or more. If that\u2019s the case, Evans took a major discount to play for the 49ers.<\/p>\n

Yes, it was widely characterized by the usual suspects as a three-year, $60.4 million deal<\/a>. The truth, as it often does, paints a different picture.<\/p>\n

Here are the full deals, per a source with knowledge of the terms:<\/p>\n

1. Signing bonus: $12 million.<\/p>\n

2. 2026 base salary: $1.3 million, fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n

3. 2026 workout bonus: $150,000, fully guaranteed but must be earned.<\/p>\n

4. 2026 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000, fully guaranteed but must be earned.<\/p>\n

5. 2027 option bonus: $12.5 million.<\/p>\n

6. 2027 base salary: $1.5 million, guaranteed for injury at signing.<\/p>\n

7. 2027 workout bonus: $150,000.<\/p>\n

8. 2027 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000.<\/p>\n

9. 2028 option bonus: $10.95 million.<\/p>\n

10. 2028 base salary: $1.7 million.<\/p>\n

11. 2028 workout bonus: $150,000.<\/p>\n

12. 2028 per-game active roster bonus: $850,000.<\/p>\n

It works out to a base package of $42.5 million. The APY is $14.167 million. That puts him near the bottom of the top 30 among receivers.<\/p>\n

Could he have gotten more elsewhere? Maybe. He seemed to be determined to play for the 49ers, even with the 13.3-percent California tax rate. (In Florida, it\u2019s zero.)<\/p>\n

We\u2019re still trying to get the details of the incentive\/escalator package that supposedly makes the $42.5 million deal worth \u201cup to\u201d $60.4 million. For now, those details remain as elusive as the basic contract details had been, for more than a week after the agreement was reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Mike Evans picked his next team, multiple reports suggested that he was being offered $27 million per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-531063","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\/531063","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=531063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}