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Where Will Mike Evans End Season On NFL All-Time Career Touchdown Leaders?
There is a future Hall of Fame wideout suiting up each week for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, as Mike Evans did what he does best in the team’s Week 1 win over Washington, hauling in five catches for 61 yards and two touchdowns.
While Evans didn't find the end zone in Week 2, through 156 NFL games, Evans has made those kinds of performances seem mundane, with 11,783 receiving yards and 96 touchdowns between 2014 and 2024, with 10 straight 1,000-yard seasons to his name to date.
That consistent production has Evans slotted into a tie for the 12th spot on the NFL’s all-time touchdown receptions list, behind Don Hutson’s total of 99 and tied with Davante Adams of the Las Vegas Raiders.
Among the NFL’s list between spots seven and 13 all time, Evans and Adams are the only active players still suiting up each Sunday, meaning that both star wideouts have a solid shot at climbing the list before the season’s done.
With that in mind, FloridaBet.com – home to all developments across Florida sports betting legislation – broke down the odds on where Evans will wind up at season’s end when it comes to TD catches, with the 31-year-old sitting 21 scores shy of Hall of Fame tight end Antonio Gates for seventh all time in league history.
NFL Players That Mike Evans Can Pass In 2024
Position | Current Player | Career Passing TDs | Odds | Percent Chance |
7th | Antonio Gates | 116 | +100000 | 0.1% |
8th | Tony Gonzalez | 111 | +1400 | 6.7% |
T-9th | Tim Brown & Steve Largent | 100 | -1000 | 90.9% |
11th | Don Hutson | 99 | +8000 | 1.2% |
T12th | Mike Evans (active) | 96 | +20000 | 0.5% |
T12th | Davante Adams (active) | 96 | +20000 | 0.5% |
How High Will Evans Climb in 2024?
Right now, Evans’ best odds are to score the five touchdowns needed to enter the top 10 in NFL history, with Tim Brown and Steve Largent currently tied for ninth overall with 100 scores apiece, four ahead of the Bucs’ veteran pass-catcher.
Ahead of that, it’d take 15 touchdowns in 2024 for Evans to match former Kansas City Chiefs legendary tight end Tony Gonzalez’s career total of 111 receiving touchdowns, which would be two more than the veteran hauled in for Tampa Bay in 2023.
In his 10-plus-year career, Evans has never hauled in more than 14 touchdown passes in a season, doing so in 2021, while finishing the 2020 and 2023 campaigns with 13 scores apiece and the 2014 and 2016 seasons with 12 touchdowns each.
Should Evans set a new career high and finish with more than 15 touchdowns in 2024, he’d pass Gonzalez and close in on Gates’ total of 116 touchdown receptions, though it seems likely that he’ll wind up somewhere between Brown & Largent’s total of 100 and Gonzalez’s figure of 111 touchdowns this season.
For now, Evans and the Bucs’ are looking to get to 3-0 for the year when Tampa Bay host the Denver Broncos on Sunday.
USA Today photo by Kimberly P. Mitchell.
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