{"id":135321,"date":"2024-08-05T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135321"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:49:46","slug":"mike-evans-reveals-he-thought-about-joining-chiefs-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135321","title":{"rendered":"Mike Evans Reveals He Thought About Joining Chiefs in Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-135322\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01j3yac5v8hkqyx83r27-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01j3yac5v8hkqyx83r27-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01j3yac5v8hkqyx83r27-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/01j3yac5v8hkqyx83r27.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mike Evans<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 20.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #212121;\">Following their Super Bowl LVIII win over the San Francisco 49ers, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/team\/kansas-city-chiefs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #e31837;\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #212121;\">&#8216; focus shifted to revamping the top half of their wide receiver room. General manager Brett Veach undoubtedly weighed plenty of options, ultimately landing on Marquise &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; Brown in free agency and Xavier Worthy in the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; margin: 22.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #212121;\">Apparently, there was almost another choice on the table for the back-to-back champs. Five-time Pro Bowler Mike Evans recently admitted that had he ended up on the free agent market, Kansas City was at or near the top of his list of teams to join.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 20.25pt; margin: 22.5pt 0in .0001pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #212121;\">Speaking to\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'mencken-std',serif;\">NFL Network<\/span><\/em>\u00a0at Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp, Evans explained that he&#8217;s a huge fan of how Patrick Mahomes plays. That factored into the Chiefs being a franchise that piqued the former first-round pick&#8217;s interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 20.25pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #212121;\">&#8220;I mean, I&#8217;ve been here my whole career,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFL\/status\/1817659919589581054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #e31837;\">Evans said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'mencken-std',serif; color: #212121;\">. &#8220;And that was a goal of mine, honestly. I mean, in the back of my mind, I&#8217;m thinking Houston, Kansas City \u2013\u00a0I love Pat Mahomes&#8217;s game. I&#8217;m thinking those two teams, obviously, and I&#8217;m obviously thinking the Bucs. It would&#8217;ve been extremely hard, if I hit free agency, to leave here. This is where my family knows, my kids were born here, my wife&#8217;s been here a long time \u2013\u00a0she doesn&#8217;t want to pack it up and move everything. So really, her decision is the reason why I decided to stay. She loves this place and I obviously love this place but when she gave me the go-ahead like, &#8216;We should stay here,&#8217; no-brainer.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Evans Following their Super Bowl LVIII win over the San Francisco 49ers, the\u00a0Kansas City Chiefs&#8216; focus shifted to revamping the top half of their wide receiver room. General manager Brett Veach undoubtedly weighed plenty of options, ultimately landing on Marquise &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; Brown in free agency and Xavier Worthy in the 2024 NFL Draft. 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