Player
Mack Hollins
WR · Patriots
Eight seasons across six franchises is journeyman territory, yet Hollins' peaks are 690 yards in Vegas (2022) and 550 yards in New England (2025) — the only two stops where a depth chart actually opened in front of him. Every Philly/Miami/Atlanta chapter sat under 270 yards. Same receiver, vastly different roles.
Eight seasons, six teams — and his two biggest years are the bookends.
TrendHollins receiving totals by season + team
| Year | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TDs | Tgt % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | PHI | 12 | 22 | 16 | 226 | 1 | 5.3% |
| 2019 | PHI/MIA | 12 | 23 | 10 | 125 | 0 | 6.6% |
| 2020 | MIA | 11 | 25 | 16 | 176 | 1 | 6.3% |
| 2021 | MIA | 15 | 28 | 14 | 223 | 4 | 5.2% |
| 2022 | LV | 17 | 94 | 57 | 690 | 4 | 16.8% |
| 2023 | ATL | 12 | 30 | 18 | 251 | 0 | 8.1% |
| 2024 | BUF | 17 | 50 | 31 | 378 | 5 | 9.9% |
| 2025 | NE | 14 | 65 | 46 | 550 | 2 | 16.2% |
Receiving yards by season
| Season | Rec yards |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 226 |
| 2019 | 125 |
| 2020 | 176 |
| 2021 | 223 |
| 2022 | 690 |
| 2023 | 251 |
| 2024 | 378 |
| 2025 | 550 |
Hollins was a special-teams body for five years — four seasons under 230 receiving yards. Then 2022 Vegas (690 yds, 16.8% target share) flipped the switch as the de facto WR2 next to Davante Adams. After detours through Atlanta and Buffalo as a depth piece, 2025 New England has become his second-biggest season ever: 46 catches, 550 yards, 16.2% target share in just 14 games.
Why it matters. Eight seasons across six franchises is journeyman territory, yet Hollins' peaks are 690 yards in Vegas (2022) and 550 yards in New England (2025) — the only two stops where a depth chart actually opened in front of him. Every Philly/Miami/Atlanta chapter sat under 270 yards. Same receiver, vastly different roles.
Six different team logos. Two seasons that look nothing like the other six.
SplitCareer production grouped by stop
| Stop | Years | G | Rec | Yds | Yds/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHI | 2017-19 | 21 | 23 | 305 | 14.5 |
| MIA | 2019-21 | 29 | 31 | 412 | 14.2 |
| LV | 2022 | 17 | 57 | 690 | 40.6 |
| ATL | 2023 | 12 | 18 | 251 | 20.9 |
| BUF | 2024 | 17 | 31 | 378 | 22.2 |
| NE | 2025 | 14 | 46 | 550 | 39.3 |
Across 110 career games on six teams, his per-game receiving yardage tells the whole story. Philly and Miami were the special-teams chapters (~14 yds/game). Atlanta and Buffalo were rotational (~21 yds/game). The two stops where a depth chart actually opened up — Vegas 2022 and New England 2025 — produced ~40 yds/game. Same player, three different career tiers depending on who he’s standing next to.
Why it matters. Grouping by stop strips out the season-by-season noise: PHI and MIA were 14 yds/game (special-teams role), ATL and BUF were 20+ yds/game (rotational), and the two stops where Hollins ran a real route tree (LV 2022, NE 2025) produced ~40 yds/game. The output tracks the role, not the player.
2025 New England target share (16.2%) is tied for the highest of his career.
MilestoneCareer target share, top seasons
| Year | Team | G | Tgts | Tgt share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | LV | 17 | 94 | 16.8% |
| 2025 | NE | 14 | 65 | 16.2% |
| 2024 | BUF | 17 | 50 | 9.9% |
| 2023 | ATL | 12 | 30 | 8.1% |
In every season outside Vegas and New England he was under a 10% target share. The Patriots have used him like the Raiders once did — a perimeter WR running real route trees, not a 6th-receiver decoy. 65 targets in 14 games (4.6 per game) puts him on a 78-target full-season pace, which would set a career high if extrapolated.
Why it matters. Hollins' nine-season norm is single-digit target share — he was under 10% in every season outside Vegas. New England has flipped that: 16.25% target share in 14 games matches his 2022 Raiders peak (16.84%) at age 32. The Patriots are not using him as a special-teams body.
His best single game ever is still the 2022 Tennessee tape — 158 yards on 11 targets.
AnomalyTop single games by receiving yards
| Year | Wk | Team | Opp | Rec | Yds | TD | Tgts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | LV | TEN | 8 | 158 | 1 | 11 |
| 2025 | 10 | NE | TB | 6 | 106 | 0 | 10 |
| 2025 | 8 | NE | CLE | 7 | 89 | 0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 10 | BUF | IND | 4 | 86 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 16 | NE | BAL | 7 | 69 | 0 | 9 |
| 2022 | 2 | LV | ARI | 5 | 66 | 0 | 8 |
He has two career 100-yard games — the 2022 Tennessee outing and the 2025 Tampa game (6/106 on 10 targets). Notice the pattern: his ceiling shows up in high-target volume games (10+ targets), and those only happen in offenses that treat him as a real outside option. Hollins’ game log is essentially binary — either he’s on the field as a featured perimeter piece, or he’s a non-factor.
Why it matters. Hollins' game log is bimodal. Six of his top single games are within ~30 yards of his 158-yard career best, and every one of those six came on 7+ targets. When an offense gives him real volume (10+ looks) he can post a WR1 line; otherwise he disappears.
He runs deep more than anyone expects — 12 air-yards-20+ targets in 2025 already.
RareTargets with air yards ≥ 20 by season
| Year | Deep Tgts | Deep Comp | Deep Yds | Deep TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 17 | 3 | 134 | 1 |
| 2023 | 6 | 2 | 68 | 0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 1 | 44 | 0 |
| 2025 | 12 | 4 | 116 | 0 |
Hollins’ reputation is grinder, blocker, special-teams ace — but the play-by-play has him as a legit vertical option. 17 deep targets in 2022, 12 already in 2025. That’s a real role: the Patriots are sending him on go routes that most depth WRs never see. The catch rate (4/12, ~33%) isn’t great, but the *volume* of vertical work is what makes the 550-yard season possible on 4.6 targets a game.
Why it matters. Air-yards >=20 means the ball traveled 20+ yards past the line of scrimmage — a true vertical route, not a checkdown. Hollins has 12 of those targets through 14 NE games, on pace to clear his 2022 mark of 17. For a 32-year-old WR3 viewed as a blocker, that route tree is unusually deep.
Red-zone TD rate has spiked late — 6 RZ TDs across 2024-25 on 12 targets.
ComparisonRed-zone targets (inside opp 20) by season
| Year | RZ Tgts | RZ TDs | TD rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | 3 | 33% |
| 2022 | 12 | 2 | 17% |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 57% |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 40% |
In 2024 Buffalo he turned 7 red-zone looks into 4 TDs — the kind of efficiency you’d expect from a goal-line tight end, not a depth WR. New England 2025 has followed the pattern: 2 RZ TDs on 5 targets. Across the two seasons he’s a 50% TD-rate red-zone weapon (6 of 12). That’s the part of the player nflverse never captured when he was on PHI/MIA — he’s 6—4 and at 220 lbs, and offenses that bother to game-plan for him near the goal line get paid.
Why it matters. Inside the opponent 20, Hollins has converted 6 of his last 12 targets into TDs (BUF 2024 + NE 2025 combined). A 50% red-zone TD rate is goal-line-tight-end territory; the league-wide WR average sits in the high teens. At 6'4" / 220 it's a usable trump card on fade and slant concepts.
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