Mike Evans can still break this NFL receiving record despite missing three games with injury

If Evans averages roughly 84 yards per game over the remainder of the team's schedule, he'll tally the necessary 251 yards to record his 11th straight 1,000-yard season to start his career.

That would be an NFL record if he could achieve that feat, extending his own mark from when he first broke Randy Moss's record of seven consecutive in 2020.

Evans would then be three seasons short of Jerry Rice's league record for most consecutive 1,000-yard seasons at any point in a player's career.

"I'm thinking about it more than Mike is," quarterback Baker Mayfield told reporters Dec. 18 on Evans' chase this year. "If it happens, it happens."

Tampa Bay faces two defenses in its final three games that are ranked in the bottom third of the league against the pass (Dallas and New Orleans).

But even against Carolina (11th vs. the pass), Evans still picked up 118 yards and a touchdown.

It seems rather likely he'll reach the 1,000-yard mark again this season, a remarkable achievement for a likely Hall of Fame-bound receiver who only started playing football his senior year of high school.