Hello Patriots fans! Congratulations on your recent acquisition of free agent wide receiver Romeo Doubs.
As exciting as this time is, you’re no doubt wondering what kind of player, exactly, your team has just signed, and I’m here to help as much as I can. Here’s a brief overview of Doubs’ career, what he brings to your team, and what you might want to watch out for as your newly signed free agent takes the field in a new uniform.
The Packers added Doubs in the fourth round of the 2022 NFL Draft as a part of their effort to rebuild their wide receiver room after the departure of Davante Adams, who’d been traded to the Raiders earlier that offseason. Along with Christian Watson (a second-round pick) and Samori Toure (a seventh-round pick), Doubs would be counted upon to rejuvenate a receiver room that had just lost a future Hall of Famer.
Along with their three draft picks, the Packers had veterans Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb under contract, and had signed Sammy Watkins to fill out the room. Presumably, that would give their youngsters time to come along slowly. It didn’t work out that way.
But by the end of Week 3, Lazard, Watkins, and Watson were all banged up, and Doubs ended up in a much bigger role than expected. He struggled, averaging just 10.1 yards per catch over his first nine NFL games before sustaining an ankle injury that knocked him out for a month, and his struggles largely continued after he came back.
His sophomore year was much better, and he really came online in the playoffs. In a 48-32 romp over the Cowboys in the Wildcard round, Doubs recorded six catches for 151 yards and a touchdown. He largely carried that momentum into 2024 — until things went off the rails.
Prior to the Packers’ Week 5 game, Doubs went AWOL, skipping practice without notifying the team. He was suspended for a week. The reason behind his absence was never fully explained, but it’s widely believed that his conduct stemmed from frustration over his role in the Packers’ offense. Doubs rebounded post-suspension, but a concussion in late November sidelined him for two more games. He missed the Packers’ Week 18 game with an illness, and then was knocked out of their playoff loss to the Eagles with his second concussion of the season.
In 2025, everything came together. Healthy and locked in, Doubs posted a career high in yards and narrowly missed a career high in catches. He finished the year with his best game of the season, posting eight catches, 121 yards, and a touchdown in the Packers’ playoff loss to the Bears.
You’re buying high on Doubs, but that’s a good thing: he’s never been better.
**The good: Doubs is a reliable, clutch receiver who plays his best in big games**
Over the past two years in Green Bay, Doubs has been the Packers’ most consistent wide receiver, if not their most consistent pass catcher, period. His catch percentage has improved every year, and although he finished fourth among the Packers’ serious pass catchers this year, no one ahead of him had more than 50 targets. He produces consistently even at a fairly high volume.
That’s partly because he has legitimately strong hands, and they’ve gotten better over the course of his time in Green Bay. The Acme Packing Company Slack chat used to seize on that “strong hands” descriptor; a scout once described him that way, and early in his career our group chat would light up with people typing STRONG HANDS every time he dropped a pass — which was frequently. But that’s not the case anymore. He’s developed truly strong hands, and has really improved that part of his game.
In fact, Doubs has really maxed out just about every part of his game. He’s not the biggest or fastest or strongest receiver, but he’s found a way to perform at a high level — or at the very least, the highest level he is capable of reaching — in just about any skill you could expect a receiver to possess.
**The bad: Doubs has plenty of limiting factors**
Unfortunately, Doubs does bump up against a few baked-in limits.
Though he’s got decent size at 6-foot-2 and 204 pounds, Doubs has a very slight frame and can bounced around a bit by physical defensive backs. And though he has strong hands, contested catches aren’t necessarily a strong point for similar reasons — he can just get out-muscled for the ball because he’s not a big body.
He’s also not a particularly explosive receiver. He boasts a very modest career average of 12 yards per catch, though he’s been above 13 yards per catch each of the last two seasons. But in four NFL seasons, he’s only logged three catches of 40 or more yards: two in the 2025 regular season and one in the 2023 playoffs. For comparison, his 2022 draft mate Christian Watson had three catches of 40+ yards in 2025 — and he played just 10 games this season because he tore his ACL during the final regular season game of 2024.
There’s also the fact that Doubs is a fairly serious concussion risk. He wears the bulbous Guardian Cap for supplementary protection, but we know of at least one concussion he’s had while wearing the concussion contraption. If every new concussion is potentially more serious than the last, Doubs is already fairly far down that path. There’s little else he could do to prevent it, but it’s still a virtually inescapable part of his football makeup.
**Bottom line: Doubs is a dependable, if limited, receiver**
But overall, Doubs would be a worthwhile addition to just about any team. He’s not a star and probably can’t carry an offense all by himself, but he’s a great supplementary piece. He probably could have done more, statistically, in Green Bay than he did, but there have always been a lot of mouths to feed throughout his time there. Even if he’s best suited to a #2 receiver role, he’ll still be a solid contributor in just about whatever offense he finds himself in.
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