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It was a good week for rookies in the NFC.

49ers linebacker Chris Borland was named the conference’s defensive player of the week and Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans joined him on the list of honorees for Week 11.

Evans accounted for a healthy portion of the team’s passing offense in a 27-7 win in Washington by catching seven passes for 209 yards. The Bucs only completed 15 passes for 288 yards all day, so Evans’s exploits were a big reason why the Bucs found a way to win for the second time this season.

His two touchdown catches didn’t hurt that effort either and the rookie is looking more and more like a big bright spot in what’s been a rough year overall in Tampa. He now has 46 catches for 794 yards and seven touchdowns on the season and he’s proven to be exactly the kind of big target that bedevils defenses that the Bucs hoped he’d be when they drafted him seventh overall in May.

Evans was the second receiver off the board in a draft that has produced many immediate starters and contributors at receiver. His output thus far confirms he deserved to be at the top of that list.