Mike Evans is an American football player who was selected seventh overall and plays as the wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He made serious football records since he started playing from his schooldays and is one of the top players at present.

Personal Life

Mike Evans was born on 21st August, 1993 in Galveston, Texas, USA. The names of his parents are Heather Kilgore and Mike Evans Jr. He is an American in nationality but his ethnicity is not known yet. He attended the Ball High School in Galveston, Texas and from this time itself he used to play football and basketball and also ran the track. He had a good score in basketball during his school days and had an average of 18.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists when he was a senior.

While in his senior year that was the only time he played football and he earned a second team District 24-4A honors and made 25 receptions, 648 yards and a lot of touchdowns. He only competed in the jumping events at the track and field and has a leap score of 14.11 meters in long jump in triple jump and a sore of 6.28 meters in long jump.

After school, he went to the Texas A&M University where he played for the Texas A&M Aggies team from 2011 to 2013 and then started his professional career. Evans likes to remain tight lipped when it comes to his personal life as a result nothing much is known about him, however we know that he is a married man and his marriage was conducted with Ashli Dotson in 2016 and he also has a daughter named Ariah who was born in 2017. There has reported been no biography written on him.

Career

While Evans attended the A&M University he played for the A&M Aggies Football Team from 2011 to 2013. He had to drop a year and in 2011 he had 82 receptions for 1105 yards and five touchdowns in 2012 and he received the AII SEC freshman honors from the coaches at the league. In 2013 during the Alabama game he caught seven passes and created a school record at 279 yard thus receiving the AT&T All American Player of the Week Honor.

In 2014 Evans declared that he would join the National Football League and not continue with the college football anymore and after this he was ranked as the top wide receiver by the Sports Illustrated magazine and the second best wide receiver by the NFLDraftScout.com. He then signed a 4 year rookie contract worth $14.6 million and $8.96 million as the signing bonus.

He made his professional regular season debut in the Tampa Bay Buccaneer season opener against Carolina Panthers and made five reception for 37 yards. On 2017, the Buccaneers applied for the fifth year contract on his contract and has an annual salary of over $3.5 million however his net worth is not known as of yet.