Mike Evans Week 3 Outlook - Buccaneers at Rams

Touchdown dependence is pretty clearly a thing with Evans now. He has games where he barely registers as a yardage producer. Going back to last season, including the playoffs, he's finished with fewer than 60 receiving yards in 8 of his last 12 games. He failed to reach 60 yards in 10 of 16 regular-season games in 2020. Not that these are terribly damning stats. A lot of receivers don't meet those thresholds. But Evans might not be quite as special as he used to be, and it's getting harder to squeeze useful fantasy numbers out of him if he doesn't find the end zone. Evans may have the best of the matchup situation this weekend, likely to run most of his routes against CB David Long Jr., who's not bad but may be the least distinguished of the Rams' cornerbacks.