After catching his 90th Career touchdown against the Colts on Sunday, and Davante Adams having a touchdownless game against the Chiefs, Evans enters week 13 just 1 Touchdown behind Adams for their careers. With the Raiders being on a bye week, this means Evans will need to catch 1 touchdown to equal Adams or 2 to pass Adams for sole lead. Evans opponent this week is the Worst team in the NFL, the Carolina Panthers who on their last meeting got destroyed by Evans as he had 10 catches for 200 yards and 3 TDs. If he is able to replicate this performance than he will become the active leader in Touchdown Receptions.
As an aside, if Mike Evans accumulates at least 150 more receiving yards for the season then he will tie Randy Moss for the second most 1000 yard receiving seasons in a career (10), a mere 4 behind Jerry Rice.
Crazy he might never get in the hall because of Adams, Megatron, Antonio Brown and Julio basically making it impossible to get an all pro.
I think Evans may get a consideration for the hall in 20 years if he gets something like 110-120 touchdowns.
I had actually thought he’d already taken the lead.
Mike Evans is a hall of famer. He’ll also tie Tyreek for the most in the NFL. If he can get his yards up I think he can make 2nd Team All-Pro.
I think the Mike Evans doubters do not properly appreciate how insane approaching 100 career receiving TDs actually is.
Yes, there is an inflation of yards receiving among WRs but that inflation does not carry over to TD catches.
Look at the current active TD leaders.
Here’s the list of people who have over 50 TDs and have a chance to make it to 100 TDs before they age out of the league:
- Davante Adams
- Mike Evans
- Tyreek Hill
That’s the entire list unless you think Travis Kelce and Davante Adams have another 25 TDs in their old legs.
Man I wish Evans got two more years with Brady
If the GOAT (Tom Brady) says you’re a HOF WR, then I suspect your chances of getting into the HOF are pretty high.