Charlie Kolar

4 NFL seasons, 33 reg-season games — 30 receptions and exactly 4 touchdowns.

Kolar, the Ravens' 4th-round pick in 2022 (out of Iowa State), has been the TE3 — and sometimes TE2 — behind Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely his entire career. Regular-season career totals: 30 receptions, 409 yards, 4 TDs across 33 games. That's roughly 8 receptions per season in a role that has been trending up every year in yards and games played.

Career receiving TD rate: 13.3% (4-of-30 reg-season receptions). Well above league average for the position.

1 of every 7-8 regular-season catches Kolar has ever made has gone for a touchdown. That 13.3% TD-per-reception rate is nearly double the league-average TE rate (~7%) — a function of the role he's been given: red-zone packages in 12-personnel sets where the ball goes to the bigger TE.

The 2025 back-to-back-week TDs (Weeks 8 and 9) were the first time Kolar scored in consecutive weeks. Both came on short routes — he was at the 10-yard line vs Chicago, and just the 3-yard line vs Miami.

NFL debut: Week 18 of 2022 — 4 catches, 49 yards, in his only rookie-season game.

Kolar missed essentially all of his rookie 2022 season after offseason surgery (sports hernia). He played one game — Week 18 vs Cincinnati — and turned 6 targets into 4 catches for 49 yards. That single rookie-year game produced his highest single-game target volume (6) of his career.

In the 34 games that followed, only 3 reached 4 or more targets — Kolar is primarily a role player who gets 1-2 looks per game when called upon.

Sitting behind two productive TEs — Andrews had 48 catches for 422 yards in 2025, Likely added 27 for 307.

Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely combined for 75 receptions and 729 yards in the 2025 regular season, leaving Kolar in a true TE3 / blocking-TE / red-zone-specialist slot. Kolar's 142 receiving yards across 13 games (~11 yds/game) reflects the ceiling of that role.

It's the same Baltimore TE depth chart for 4 straight seasons — and Kolar is the only one of the three who has never had a 100-yard receiving game.

A TD in every season he played multiple games (2023, 2024, 2025) — 3 straight years, averaging just 3 targets per game.

Kolar has caught at least one touchdown in every season he's seen multiple games — 2023, 2024, and 2025. In his only game in 2022 (Week 18), he didn't score. That's a 3-year reg-season TD streak from a player who averages only 1.2 targets per game in those seasons.

The role itself has shifted slightly: 2025's 15 targets across 13 regular-season games is his highest single-season target total by any measure — and he converted 2 of them into touchdowns.

Yards per reception: 13.6 (reg season) — above Mark Andrews and nearly every TE with real volume.

Kolar's career 13.6 yards per reception (regular season) is unusually high for a backup TE — Andrews's career reg-season YPR is 12.3, and the league-average TE sits around 10 YPR. The reason is opportunity selection: when Kolar gets targeted, it tends to be on a seam route or a play-action shot off 12-personnel, not on a checkdown. Nearly all of his receptions (29 of 30) come on short-classified pass plays, but he consistently turns short routes into chunk gains.

Low volume (30 career catches in 33 regular-season games), but a high-leverage usage profile — every catch is meaningfully advancing the chains.