{"id":61348,"date":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61348\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:55:08","slug":"buccaneers-gm-says-its-unreal-how-good-mike-evans-looks-heading-into-year-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/61348\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers GM says it&#8217;s &#8220;unreal&#8221; how good Mike Evans looks heading into Year 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans will turn 32 this month and is heading into his 12th NFL season, but you\u2019d never know that from seeing him on the practice field in training camp.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the word from Bucs General Manager Jason Licht, who said it\u2019s \u201cunreal\u201d how good Evans looks given how long he has been playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just crazy how Mike, to me, looks the same as he did &#8212; maybe better in some ways &#8212; as a rookie,\u201d Licht said. \u201cHasn\u2019t lost a beat, and he\u2019s enjoying it, he\u2019s having fun, you can tell from his body language and the way he jokes around between periods, this is what he loves. It\u2019s good to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans has topped 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first 11 NFL seasons, and from Licht\u2019s observations, he\u2019s going to be ready to make it 12-for-12 this year. And he may have a few good years left in him after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans will turn 32 this month and is heading into his 12th NFL season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-61348","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\/61348","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=61348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}