Mike Evans 2025 Season in Review

Mike Evans finished 2025 as the number 75 wide receiver in total PPR scoring — but the number 40 wide receiver in PPR per game. That gap tells the whole story in one number: this was an availability season, not a talent season. Evans suited up for just eight games in a San Francisco offense he didn't headline at the start of the year — that role belonged to Jauan Jennings, who led the team in receiving. When Evans was active, he was a real piece of the passing game. When he wasn't, his managers got muffed by zeros on the bench. That's the season in one breath.

Now let's dig into the numbers, because the per-snap profile is sharper than the counting line suggests. Evans averaged 10.6 PPR points per game on 30 catches for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns on 62 targets across his eight games. The usage was premium: a 24 percent average target share and a 35 percent average air yards share — he was the field-stretcher whenever he was on the grass. The work was vertical, not after the catch — just 37 yards after the catch all season, with average separation of 1.92 yards at the catch point. And the weekly line was steadier than you'd guess: 10.1, 10.6, 13.3, a zero against the Falcons, then 19.2, 14.1, 12.1, and 5.4 to close. Outside of that Week 7 goose egg and the Week 18 dud against Seattle, this was a steady floor in the 10-to-19 range — the variance came from games missed, not boom-or-bust within games. Brock Purdy's 69 percent completion rate against an expected 64 percent — second in the league in completion percentage over expected — kept Evans's catchable-target rate honest when Purdy was under center.

The defining beat was Week 15 against Tennessee: six catches, 132 yards in a 37-24 win, and his only triple-digit day of the season. That was the version of Evans you drafted for — a true number one outside threat eating vertical targets in a winning script. The problem wasn't that Evans couldn't play. It's that he only gave you eight of those Sundays.