Wide Receiver · San Francisco 49ers

Mike Evans

No. 5 · 13th season

Day one, new city, and Mike Evans is already there

The first day of training camp is its own kind of statement. You could ease in. Take your time. Let others go first. Mike Evans was not interested in any of that.

Evans spent more than a decade in Tampa Bay — long enough to become the kind of player a city builds its football identity around. Eleven straight seasons with at least a thousand receiving yards. A record nobody else in league history has touched. When that chapter ended, a lot of people wondered what version of Evans would show up next, and where.

The answer, as of Day 1 of the 2026 season, is San Francisco. On the first morning of camp, Evans was out there — not watching from the side, not easing in on a modified schedule, just working.

For a team building toward something, that kind of presence carries weight before a single pass is thrown. Evans has been the most reliable wide receiver of his generation. Now the 49ers get to find out what that looks like on their side of the field.

This is the first chapter of a new story. Day one just told you he plans to write it himself.

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