Malachi Toney

#1 · WR · So. · Miami5′11″ · 188 lb · Miami, FL · American Heritage

Receiving yards1,0273rd of 467 receiversLast gameW 38–35at North Carolina · Oct 31
Nextat Notre DameSat Nov 7 · 7:30 pm ET
1,027 receiving yards in 8 games, 3rd in the FBS; their best was 234 at Stanford.
Game 1: at Stanford, win 45-6, 234 receiving yards, 3 touchdowns234WSTAN@Game 2: against Florida A&M, win 77-7, 96 receiving yards, 1 touchdown, FCS opponent96WFAMUFCSGame 3: at Wake Forest, win 33-20, 114 receiving yards, 1 touchdown114WWAKE@Game 4: against Central Michigan, win 52-3, 120 receiving yards, 1 touchdown120WCMUGame 5: at Clemson, win 41-13, 40 receiving yards40WCLEM@Game 6: against Florida State, win 43-35, 154 receiving yards, 2 touchdowns154WFSUGame 7: against Pittsburgh, win 52-23, 194 receiving yards, 3 touchdowns194WPITTGame 8: at North Carolina, win 38-35, 75 receiving yards, 2 touchdowns75WUNC@Season high
Game 1: at Stanford, win 45-6, 234 receiving yards, 3 touchdowns234WSTAN@Game 2: against Florida A&M, win 77-7, 96 receiving yards, 1 touchdown, FCS opponentWFAMUFCSGame 3: at Wake Forest, win 33-20, 114 receiving yards, 1 touchdownWWAKE@Game 4: against Central Michigan, win 52-3, 120 receiving yards, 1 touchdownWCMUGame 5: at Clemson, win 41-13, 40 receiving yardsWCLEM@Game 6: against Florida State, win 43-35, 154 receiving yards, 2 touchdownsWFSUGame 7: against Pittsburgh, win 52-23, 194 receiving yards, 3 touchdownsWPITTGame 8: at North Carolina, win 38-35, 75 receiving yards, 2 touchdowns75WUNC@Season high
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North Carolina · W 38-35

7 catches, 75 yards, 2 TD

The other 7 games average 136 yards. This one was 61 below.

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Dashed line: 100 yards.

This week

What’s being said

14 stories this week, from 10 outlets.

Oct 29: 2Oct 31: 2Nov 1: 1Nov 2: 7Nov 3: 2W 38-35 at North CarolinaWOct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 7
Oct 29: 2Oct 31: 2Nov 1: 1Nov 2: 7Nov 3: 2W 38-35 at North CarolinaWOct 29Nov 4Most in a day: 7
Stories per day. W and L: the team’s results.

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Worth knowing

  • Malachi Toney is rated 96 overall in EA College Football 27, 2nd among the game's wide receivers.
  • Malachi Toney was first-team All-ACC in 2025.

His most important play this season

  1. Q1, 8:33 · Miami tiedDarian Mensah finds Malachi Toney for a 2-yard touchdownMiami at North Carolina, week 9Q1, 8:33 · Miami 7, North Carolina 0Miami opened the scoringMiami opened the scoringD.Mensah pass complete short right to M.Toney caught at UNC00, for 2 yards to the UNC00 touchdown, kick goodWatch from this playESPN College Football

All 7 of his plays on video

The story

Written , before the 2026 season

A Miami freshman receiving record, ACC Rookie of the Year, first-team All-ACC, and a Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year finalist. On3 ranked him the No. 5 player in college football entering 2026; Bleacher Report called him the most explosive player in the sport.

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And here's the part that should scare the ACC: he won't be NFL-draft-eligible until 2028, so Miami gets two more years of him. He's the centerpiece of a Miami offense rebuilding around him — a slot-and-space weapon who already commands the attention reserved for veterans. The forward question isn't whether he's good; the freshman record settled that. It's how high the ceiling goes: whether the sophomore leap turns the nation's leading receiver into its best, and whether Miami's offense rises with him. Players this productive this young don't come along often — the runway is the story.

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Style of play

Style of play

Play style, written June 13, before the season

Toney is a volume machine with juice. He caught 84% of his targets — 96th percentile — as a true freshman, the reliability that makes him a quarterback's security blanket, with the after-the-catch burst (72nd-percentile explosive-play rate) to turn a five-yard hitch into a chunk gain. He lives in the slot and in space, where his quickness and vision do the damage; it's why he led the country in catches and why the highlight folder is full of broken tackles. The growth edge is the vertical game — his yards-per-catch sat mid-pack, so the next tier is stretching the field, not just carving up the underneath. But a true freshman who led the nation in receptions has a floor most receivers never reach.

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The season so far

35% of the catches, 39% of the yards, 46% of the touchdowns

  • Catches35%73 of 208
  • Yards39%1,027 of 2,659
  • Touchdowns46%13 of 28
  • A touchdown every 5.6 catches. Everyone else on the team: one every 9.0.

Share of the team's receiving yards, game by game

Who caught the team's passes

Share of the team's total this season.

Every catch and target this season

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a catch, dashed to the catch point then solid afterthrown to him, incomplete

Seen from behind the quarterback; numbers are yards past the line of scrimmage. The play text only says left, middle or right, so inside a lane marks are sorted, not placed. Of his catches with a spot in the play text: left 24, middle 15, right 23.