The San Francisco 49ers added a game changer to their wide receiver room, potentially completing a Super Bowl-contending roster.
One of the major NFL free agency splashes so far was former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans signing with the San Francisco 49ers, a move that gives the Niners a potential future Hall of Famer and a veteran playmaker in a room that desperately needed it last season. After 12 years with the Bucs, Evans departed for a team he thought he could win another Super Bowl with in San Francisco, agreeing to a three-year deal to join the team that ESPN reports is worth $42.4 million, and could reach up to $60.4 million in incentives.
Evans wanted to go to a team perennially competing for championships. Despite an abominable number of injuries last season – ones that eventually caught up and took their toll in their playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks – the 49ers managed to go 12-5 and drag themselves to the NFC divisional round. They were down so many star players that it was unbelievable, and that points to a championship caliber team and culture that Evans was drawn to. For San Francisco, it’s just as significant to grab such an explosive playmaker to add to a wide receiver corps that was decimated by injuries last year.
Here is the full story from 49ers Roundtable writer Savanah Tujague on Evans’ impact and why the move is so significant.
However, in classic 49ers’ fashion, Evans does have a history injury to watch. But it reshapes the room for San Francisco with a proven veteran who made an extremely tough call to leave the place he’d spent his first dozen years in the league in.