A free agent this past offseason after 11 years with the Saints, Evans wanted to keep playing football and was very confident he could.
But he wasn’t going to sign with just anybody.
“I didn’t want to play for a team that didn’t have a chance to win, no,” Evans said this past week. “I would rather just wait until somebody that had a chance to win needed me.”
When that call came from the Packers prior to the draft, Evans was on board. He was getting exactly what he wanted – a starting job for a team that was one game away from the Super Bowl a season ago and lost Pro Bowl guard T.