Mike Evans

No. 5 · 13th season

One city, one team, one long run — and then San Francisco called

There are players who get traded, cut, shuffled around the league like cards in a deck. Mike Evans was never one of them. He spent his entire NFL career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — the kind of loyalty that makes a person a city's own, the kind of run that builds statues.

Then it ended. Evans left Tampa Bay and signed with the San Francisco 49ers, trading the place that shaped him for a team that believes he is the final piece they have been missing.

That framing — final piece, Super Bowl window, now or never — is the 49ers' bet out loud. They looked at what Evans built over more than a decade in Tampa and decided that résumé belongs in Santa Clara.

For Evans, it is something stranger and quieter than a transaction. After this long in one place, starting over is its own kind of story. The 49ers get a player with Hall of Fame credentials. Evans gets a new city watching to see what he does with the time he has left.

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