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Today's Linkster #45 · NFL

Mike Evans to Amari Cooper

On Thursday, October 15, 2026, everyone playing the NFL Today's Linkster got the same two players: get from Mike Evans to Amari Cooper in as few links as possible. Par was 3, counted through colleges, but any shared college, jersey number or team counted as a move.

The two players

  • Mike Evans (WR, 2017–2026) College: Texas A&M. Teams: San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Numbers: #5 and #13.
  • Amari Cooper (WR, 2017–2024) College: Alabama. Teams: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders. Numbers: #2, #18, #19 and #89.

Seasons 2017–2026. Jersey numbers and teams only count from seasons in that range.

How it went

58 players solved it on the day (1 more gave up). 42 beat par with a shortcut, and 50 matched or beat it in all. The winning run was djc's: 2 moves in 0:04.4.

The answer

Show a shortest route

Through colleges alone it takes 3, which is par:

  1. Mike Evans
  2. Texas A&M Kyler Murray
  3. Oklahoma Jalen Hurts
  4. Alabama Amari Cooper

With every kind of link counting, it could be done in 2:

  1. Mike Evans
  2. Texas A&M Myles Garrett
  3. Cleveland Browns Amari Cooper