Marshon Lattimore versus Mike Evans provided every New Orleans Saints versus Tampa Bay Buccaneers showdown with a little extra intensity. The Saints traded Lattimore away to the Washington Commanders this year, and he will take on Evans again for the first time in a different uniform in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call Evans and Lattimore arch-rivals. New York Jets receiver Davante Adams spoke with Kay Adams on the rivalry between the two players, saying: “I know both of them boys are crazy.”
You see how far the rivals go and how frequently they go there, and it’s hard to disagree. Scuffles are regular, and punches never seem to far away when Evans and Lattimore are sharing the field. With this being a playoff game, the extracurricular activities should be at a minimum. The intensity will be present, though.
Adams says he never had a rival to this degree and is “too old to be doing that now.” If there was one cornerback he had a rivalry with, it would Richard Sherman, but “it wasn’t something that lasted as long as their’s have.”
There aren’t many rivalries like Evans versus Lattimore. We get to see them battle in the playoffs one more time.