WR Lee Evans dealt to Ravens

The Buffalo Bills have traded receiver Lee Evans to the Baltimore Ravens, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter on Friday.


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The Bills will get a fourth-round pick in the 2012 draft from Baltimore.

Evans, considered a high-value vertical threat, had said this week that trade talks were just a part of the game.

"It's not a whole lot I can focus on because I have no control," Evans said Thursday. "My main goal is to do everything in my power to help this team win. That's what my focus is more so than anything."

With two years left on his contract, Evans said he hadn't asked for a trade.

Selected in the first round of the 2004 draft out of Wisconsin, Evans is the longest active-serving member of the Bills offense (not including kicker Rian Lindell), and the unquestioned leader of the team's young group of receivers.

Evans has surpassed 1,000 yards receiving twice, with his best season coming in 2006, when he had 82 catches for 1,292 yards and eight touchdowns.

"At the end of the day, all my teammates know what I can do, who I am and they respect me for that," Evans said. "They know they can trust me, they know they can believe in me, so that goes a long way."

so they got a first round draft pick receiver for a 4th round draft pick?

Evans was drafted in the first round and actually torched the Ravens D last year for three touchdowns. I think the Ravens got caught with their pants down when they released Derrick Mason and Todd Heap. I think they actually intended to resign them both, but then the Cardinals signed Heap and the Jets swooped in and took Mason, so we needed a deep threat.

I like the younger WR's the Ravens have, but you need someone to take the slack off Boldin on the other side. Plus this is the first WR the Ravens have had that is actually a deep threat.