{"id":587328,"date":"2026-04-16T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:40:10","slug":"mike-evans-says-hell-wear-no-5-with-the-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587328\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans says he&#8217;ll wear No. 5 with the 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wide receiver Mike Evans will have a new number to go with his new uniform in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Evans wore No. 13 for all 12 of his seasons with the Buccaneers, but he will be making a change now that he is playing with the 49ers. Evans told teammate Fred Warner on Warner\u2019s Real Ones podcast that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealOnesGFS\/status\/2044481332936311114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he will wear<\/a> No. 5 for the NFC West team. <\/p>\n<p>Fanatics <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fanatics.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/jerseys\/mike-evans-san-francisco-49ers-nike-game-jersey-scarlet\/o-2405+t-81934874+d-19007801+f-409296886+z-9-763685530?utm_medium=cse&amp;_s=GPA_CA&amp;sku=204815430&amp;targetid=targetid&amp;utm_campaign=23552760227_193477757415&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23552760227&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAD-8Wqzt8p_USVDirFZmCEy2L0Zou&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw7vzOBhBxEiwAc7WNr6wcI5djp4__U6j477rqk4NKzxYzRvTBg988BIh-aLn08JKUazsSQxoCgDAQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is selling<\/a> an Evans 49ers jersey with No. 5 on it, although they include a note that the jersey will not be shipped until the number is confirmed. <\/p>\n<p>A new number was expected because 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has worn No. 13 for his entire NFL career. Wide receiver DeMarcus Robinson wore No. 5 for the Niners last season and remains on the roster. He will presumably have a new number for the 2026 season and may have gotten some incentives from Evans in order to make the switch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Mike Evans will have a new number to go with his new uniform in 2026. Evans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-587328","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\/587328","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=587328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}