Evans wants extension by start of season, yet to receive offer from Bucs

Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans set a deadline of Sept. 9 – one day before Tampa Bay’s first regular-season game – to receive a new long-term contract, his agent said in a statement Friday, according to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo.

Evans – who’s entering the final year of a five-year, $82-million deal he signed in 2018 – will cut off negotiations if he hasn’t been extended by Week 1.

“Despite our efforts over the past two years – and the professionalism of Bucs general manager Jason Licht and assistant general manager Mike Greenberg – we have not received an offer to stay in Tampa,” wrote Evans’ agent, Deryk Gilmore. “This is disappointing to Mike as he sees other teams step up to

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