Every year, there are skill players who fall through the cracks of fantasy football, and they can become fantasy football league winners. Most often, it can be the quarterbacks that fall down the board, but it can also be running backs and wide receivers.
When it gets to be later in the draft and you are looking for those players that can fill out a roster, diamonds can sometimes be found. If you ask Bleacher Report’s Gary Davenport, Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans can be one of those for folks in 2025. As he prepares for a potential record-breaking campaign, Evans is still receiving hype, despite Davenport’s point that it can become a bit old.
He writes, “Why do we keep doing this? Since Mike Evans turned 30 in August 2023, undervaluing the veteran wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has become an annual ritual—despite the fact that he has never failed to hit 1,000 receiving yards in a season and has 10-plus touchdowns in more seasons than not. Yes, he missed three games last year, but that didn’t stop him from extending his NFL-record streak of 1,000-yard seasons to 11. He has reeled in at least 11 touchdowns in four of the past five years—a span in which he found the end zone a whopping 57 times. Evans has never caught less than 70 passes. The last time he averaged less than 14 yards per reception was 2016. And he has been targeted at least 110 times in a season 10 times in 11 years.”
Evans may now be one of four monsters in the Bucs’ passing attack, but that doesn’t mean the proverbial big dog won’t be feeding plenty.
Evans has demonstrated that regardless of who he is competing with for targets, he can consistently produce. In 2025, he will have to do it again, and with Baker Mayfield still around to divvy up the targets, he should do well.
This article originally appeared on Bucs Wire: One Buccaneers player is seen as a ‘League-Winner’ in fantasy football for 2025
Reporting by Andrew Harbaugh, Buccaneers Wire / Bucs Wire
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