Mike Evans Wife, Father, Brother, Mother, Family, Height, Weight, Salary

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Mike Evans is a wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He joined the NFL in 2014 and has built a reputation as one of the league’s most prolific broadband receivers. Evans, who is only in his 20s, is the Buccaneers all-time leader in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns with a total of 356 receptions for 5,365 receiving yards and 36 receiving touchdowns as of Week 9 of the 2018 season. Find out more about this record breaker here, including his career, body stats, family history, wife, etc.

Early life and career entry

Michael Lynn Evans III was born on August 21, 1993 in Dallas, Texas. He received his high school education from Ball High School in Galveston, where he was a multi-athlete, writing in football, basketball, and track (triple jumpers, long jumpers, and sprinters).

Interestingly, Evans focused more on basketball, and to track it, he didn’t start playing football until his very senior year of high school. However, he did well in that single season (25 receptions for 648 yards and seven touchdowns) and earned a scholarship to Texas A&M University. Evans spent three years at Texas A&M (2011 to 2013) where he proved he was no fluke.

After a redshirt his freshman year, he recorded 82 receptions for 1,105 yards and five touchdowns his sophomore year and earned All-SEC honors. In his third year he was able to improve the school record with 69 receptions for 1,394 yards and twelve touchdowns. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was named an All-American First-Team and All-Sec First-Team by the Associated Press. Unsurprisingly, the Dallas native decided to strike at a hot potato and gave up his last two years of college football for the 2014 NFL draft.

NFL career and salary

Mike Evans was selected in the first round of the draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was the 7th overall pick of the year. The Buccaneers signed a lavish (by rookie standards) four-year deal for $14,600,000. In four years (and counting the Buccaneers) Evans has proven to be worth every penny spent on him. He finished his rookie season with 68 receptions for 1,051 yards and 12 touchdowns. Its 1,051 receiving yards was the ninth largest receiving yards by a freshman since the 1970 merger of the NFL and AFL.

The wide receiver also surpassed 1,000 yards in his first four seasons with the Buccaneers, becoming one of only three players in NFL history to receive 1,000 or more yards in each of their first four seasons. No wonder the Buccaneers rewarded him with an attractive five-year contract worth $82,500,000 at the end of his rookie contract. Mike Evans is currently in his fifth season with the Buccaneers and is on track to hit his normal 1000+ yards as the season benchmark.

Mike Evans is currently on a five-year contract valued at $82,500,000. The amount includes a guaranteed sum of USD 55,008,000 and an average annual salary of USD 16,500,000. His 2018 salary is a cool $18,258,000. Not bad for a young man who grew up in the projects.

His family (mother, father and brother)

Mike Evans is certainly a young man who has overcome many adversities (many of which stem from his family history) to get to where he is today. His mother, Heather Kilgore, gave birth to him when he was 15. His father, Mickey Evans, was murdered by Sam Kilgore, his mother’s brother, when he was 9 years old. Sam Kilgore shot and stabbed the older Evans for being physically abusive towards his sister Heather.

Kilgore was sentenced to 38 years for the murder and Evans eventually forgave his uncle after visiting him in prison many times. There is no doubt that Evan’s childhood experience influenced him. He has a Mike Evans Family Foundation which provides scholarships for underprivileged youth as well as support for victims of domestic violence.

In terms of siblings, Mike Evans has one sister. He has no biological brother, but he describes professional basketball player Terran Petteway as his brother. Both grew up in Galveston, Texas and Petteway currently plays professional basketball in the Italian league for a club called Dinamo Sassari.

Mike Evans wife

Mike Evans is married to longtime friend Ashli ​​Evans (née Dotson). The two reportedly met while studying at Texas A&M and started dating in February 2014. They got engaged on December 19, 2014 and tied the knot on February 13, 2016 in a beautiful ceremony in Houston, Texas.

Evan’s little daughter from a previous relationship, Mackenzie, was a flower girl at the ceremony. In addition to Mackenzie, Evans and Ashli ​​have another daughter, Ariah Lynn Evans, who they welcomed in November 2016.

Body stats (height and weight)

Mike Evans is 6ft 5in tall and weighs 231lb (104.7kg). He has quite a massive physique, making him an ideal height soccer player. His size is an asset as he is a strong, physically dominant player who can easily outperform smaller defensive players. His arm length is 0.89 m and his hand is 0.24 m.

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