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Why Bucs' receiver Mike Evans is feeling older

Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans participates in an "open OTA practice" at One Buccaneer Place Thursday in Tampa. [LOREN ELLIOTT | Times]

TAMPA — Last week, while explaining a play against the Seattle Seahawks last year, Bucs receiver Mike Evans dropped a throwaway line about Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman.

"Even though we're close in age, he's had a few more years than me in the league."

They're not that close in age.

Sherman is 29 years old; Evans is just 23.

When the Buccaneers selected Evans in 2014, he was among the youngest players in the league.