Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans makes NFL history, helps lead team to playoff berth

For a while it looked like it would not happen but in the final seconds of the Tampa Bay’ 27-19 win over the New Orleans Saints – not only did the Buccaneers clinch playoff berth but NFL history was made.

For a while it looked like it would not happen but in the final seconds of Tampa Bay’s 27-19 win over the New Orleans Saints – not only did the Buccaneers clinch playoff berth but NFL history was made. Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans extended his streak of 1,000-yards in a season for the 11th in a row to tie Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice for the most ever consecutively. After the Tampa Bay defense forced the Saints to turn it over on downs, the Buccaneers offense got the ball back with less than 40 seconds to go in the game and Evans needing five yards for the record. Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield threw the ball immediately to Evans who hauled it in for nine-yards to get to 1,004 yards for the season. With legendary quarterback and a former teammate of Evans, Tom Brady, on the call for Fox, he called it “one of the greatest things” he’s seen as Buccaneers teammates mobbed him to celebrate the feat. The 31-year-old Evans is the first player in history to reach the 1,000 yard plateau in their first eleven seasons.