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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Mike Evans aims for career milestones on Monday Night Football
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Mike Evans aims for career milestones on Monday Night Football

When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the Baltimore Ravens on Monday night, more than just a win or loss will be at stake.

In the game and in the standings within the standings, there are several key points that Buccaneers and Ravens players can aim for.

Within them, Tampa Bay receiver Mike Evans and Baltimore running back Derrick Henry, simply playing in tonight’s matchup, make this a little more special than the average Monday Night Football showcase.

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With Henry and Evans entering the Week 7 matchup, it will be the first time since Week 3 of the 2020 season that the active leaders in rushing and receiving touchdowns will compete against each other.

The last time it happened was between receiver Larry Fitzgerald of the Arizona Cardinals and running back Adrian Peterson, then with the Detroit Lions.

That game also marks the last time two players with 100 career touchdowns each played in the same game. Henry currently has 102 career touchdowns and Evans has exactly 100, falling just one shy of the century mark in that category alone.

If the Ravens can rack up 168 rushing yards as a team against the Bucs, they will become the fourth team since 1980 with 1,400 rushing yards or more in the first seven games of a season, and the last team to do so since sweeping themselves. brand in 2019.

On the defensive side for the Buccaneers is safety Antoine Winfield Jr. half a sack away from matching and a full sack away from passing Bill Bates (15.5) for the second-most sacks by a defensive back through the first five years of his career. This statistic dates back to 1982, when sacks became an official statistic. Jamal Adams scored 21.5 in his first five seasons and holds the record for most all-time in the first five years of his career.

When Evans gets his 100th touchdown reception, he will become just the fifth player to do so in his first 11 seasons, joining Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Marvin Harrison and Randy Moss. New York Jets receiver Davante Adams is also chasing this milestone, but already played in Week 7.

Finally, Henry needs one 100-yard rushing game and two rushing touchdowns to tie Emmitt Smith for the third-most games with that statistical line or better. Smith did it 21 times in his NFL career, mostly playing for the Dallas Cowboys.

Keep up BucsGameday for more coverage of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers throughout the 2024 season.

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