Age: 25
3rd
season in pro football & with Jaguars
College: Idaho
Height: 5’7” Weight: 176
Prelude:
Hollis made
all 68 of his college extra point attempts and kicked a 56-yard field goal
against Arizona in 1993. Undrafted by the NFL, he was with the San Diego
Chargers during the 1994 preseason and then caught on with the expansion
Jaguars in ’95. Hollis was successful on 20 of 27 field goal attempts and 27 of
28 extra point tries and improved in 1996 to 30 of 36 in field goals and made
all 27 PAT attempts as the team reached the postseason, where he was
successful on 8 of 9 field goal attempts in the three-game run through the AFC title
contest.
1997 Season Summary
Appeared in
all 16 games
[Bracketed
numbers indicate league rank in Top 20]
Kicking
Field goals –
31 [3]
Most field
goals, game – 5 vs. Baltimore 11/30
Field goal
attempts – 36 [5, tied with Gary Anderson, Olindo Mare & Jason Elam]
Most field
goal attempts, game – 5 vs. Pittsburgh 9/22, vs. Baltimore 11/30
Field goal
percentage – 86.1 [7]
PATs – 41 [3,
tied with Doug Pelfrey]
PAT attempts
– 41 [4]
Longest field
goal – 52 yards vs. NY Giants 9/7, vs. Kansas City 11/9
Scoring
Field Goals –
31
PATs – 41
Points – 134
[1]
Postseason: 1
G (AFC Wild Card playoff at Denver)
Field goals –
1
Field goal
attempts – 1
PATs – 2
PAT attempts
– 2
Longest field
goal – 38 yards
Awards & Honors:
Pro Bowl
Jaguars went 11-5
to finish second in the AFC Central while ranking third in the NFL in scoring
(394 points) and qualified for the postseason as a Wild Card. Lost AFC Wild
Card playoff to Denver Broncos (42-17).
Aftermath:
Hollis spent
four more seasons with the Jaguars and had his best field goal percentage
(92.3) in 2000 when he was successful on 24 of 26 attempts. While he sometimes
had difficulty on kickoffs, he was generally accurate on field goals. After
faltering in 2001, when he missed ten field goals and his accuracy dropped to
64.3 percent after never being below 80 percent since his first year with the
team, Hollis departed for the Buffalo Bills in 2002. He made good on 25 of 33
field goal attempts (75.8 %) and all 40 tries for extra point. Hollis moved on
to the New York Giants in ’03 but was placed on injured reserve with a back
injury in the preseason and retired the following year. Overall, Hollis kicked
200 field goals out of 250 attempts (80.0 %), with 175 of 217 (80.6) coming
with the Jaguars, and added 279 PATs for a total of 879 points scored (764 with
Jacksonville). He added another 16 field goals, out of 18 attempts, and 22
extra points in eight postseason games, all with the Jaguars.
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Highlighted Years features players who were consensus
first-team All-League* selections or league* or conference** leaders in the
following statistical categories:
Rushing:
Yards, TDs (min. 10)
Passing:
Yards, Completion Pct., Yards per Attempt, TDs, Rating
Receiving:
Catches, Yards, TDs (min. 10)
Scoring: TDs,
Points, Field Goals (min. 5)
All-Purpose:
Total Yards
Defense:
Interceptions, Sacks
Kickoff Returns:
Average
Punt Returns:
Average
Punting:
Average
*Leagues
include NFL (1920 to date), AFL (1926), AFL (1936-37), AAFC (1946-49), AFL
(1960-69), WFL (1974-75), USFL (1983-85)
**NFC/AFC
since 1970
