Who caught Tom Brady's 600th career regular season touchdown pass?

Mike Evans caught Tom Brady’s 600th career regular-season touchdown pass. The milestone came in Week 7 of the 2021 season, when Tampa Bay hosted the Chicago Bears on October 24, 2021. Brady connected with Evans on a 9-yard touchdown late in the first quarter, becoming the first quarterback in NFL history to reach 600 regular-season touchdown passes.

Evans caught three touchdown passes in Tampa Bay’s 38–3 victory, but the first was the historic one. The play was especially notable because Evans initially gave the milestone football to a fan in the stands who had returned it after realizing its significance; the Buccaneers later arranged compensation and additional memorabilia for him.

This record is sometimes confused with Brady’s combined regular-season and postseason touchdown total, which is a separate statistic. It is also easy to mistake another Tampa Bay receiver—such as Rob Gronkowski, Chris Godwin, or Antonio Brown—for the recipient because all were prominent targets during Brady’s Buccaneers tenure. Evans, however, was the receiver on the 600th regular-season touchdown.