Evans is on a quest to achieve the improbable. Year after year, through training camps and mandatory minicamps, his insatiable love of the game persists. Just like the kid fresh out of Texas A&M in 2014, Evans’ hunger between the hashes usurps all else.
“It is a blessing always to start training camp healthy, and to be here and to just do what I love to do and live out my dream,” said Evans. “Obviously, it is not easy, it is difficult, but I would rather be nowhere else but here. I have been seeing pictures of me at my first camp and I was 240 pounds and out of shape, but I was just this young and hungry kid. I still have that same hunger, I just got smarter.”
Baker Mayfield earned the starting quarterback gig in Tampa Bay last season and Evans quickly developed chemistry with his new signal-caller. Their heightened synergy in 2024 was on full display Wednesday at the AdventHealth Training Center in Liam Coen’s new offense. The pair connected on several plays, including a third-down dart. Mayfield threaded the needle and dropped the ball down the sideline to where only Evans, a jump-ball specialist, could get it. That play was a product of repetition breeding success.
Evans has climb-the-ladder skills and routinely boxes out defenders with his frame. His ability at securing back-shoulder fades is second to none, as is his ability to power through jams with physicality. With an uptick in motion and three-by-one sets in 2024 under the direction of Coen, Evans will be used interchangeably to take advantage of favorable matchups.
“It is a lot more movement [on offense] so the defense cannot just sit there and know what we are doing,” noted Evans. “There will be a lot of movement and a lot of eye candy and that is going to help me, and our team a lot.”
A new year begins for Evans, but the expectation remains the same: greatness.
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