Saints Career Franchise Records About to Fall page 2

Career Total Touchdowns
Marques Colston - 72
Alvin Kamara - 68
Mark Ingram - 56
Colston is in the argument for the franchise's greatest receiver and was vastly underappreciated during his 10 magnificent seasons. Kamara, in less than six years of action, is poised to pass him as the Saints all-time leader in total touchdowns.

Already the franchise's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns by a running back, Kamara's versatility makes him one of the NFL's most dynamic weapons.

As a receiver, Kamara has 373 receptions for 3,263 yards and 20 touchdowns in five seasons. With even an average year, he’ll move significantly up the Saints all-time receiving list in all three categories.

Career Receptions
Marques Colston - 711
Eric Martin - 532
Joe Horn - 523
Michael Thomas - 510
Jimmy Graham - 386
Alvin Kamara - 373
Colston is the Saints all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions. He figures to hold onto those marks a little longer, but there’s another current New Orleans player other than Kamara rocketing up the team’s record list - WR Michael Thomas.
Before missing 26 of the last 33 games with a serious ankle injury, including all of 2021, Thomas had set NFL records for productivity over his first five seasons. He hauled in 470 receptions between 2016 and 2019, including an NFL-record 149 catches in 2019.

Now healthy, the 29-year-old Thomas seems primed for a big bounce-back year. With additional offensive weapons, a repeat of his eye-popping 149 receptions seems unlikely. However, the 23 catches needed to pass Eric Martin for second place could happen within the first few games of the year.

Thomas averaged over 117 receptions per year in his first four seasons. He’s had five or more catches in an incredible 56 of his 70 regular season games, including 25 outings of at least nine receptions.

Career Receiving Yards
Marques Colston - 9,759
Eric Martin - 7,854
Joe Horn - 7,622
Michael Thomas - 5,950
Danny Abramowicz - 4,875
Jimmy Graham - 4,752
Devery Henderson - 4,377
Lance Moore - 4,281
Hoby Brenner - 3,849
Quinn Early - 3,758
Alvin Kamara - 3,263

Michael Thomas averaged 1,378 yards per year over his first four NFL seasons. He already holds the team’s top two marks for receiving yards in a single season with 1,405 in 2018 and an NFL-high 1,725 in 2019.

Thomas needs to equal his career high just to pass Joe Horn for third place. With the offseason additions of Jarvis Landry and Chris Olave at receiver that seems unlikely. However, the dominant Thomas seems to have a chip on his shoulder coming into this season.

Kamara is coming off a career-low 47 receptions for 439 yards in 2021. However, remember that this a player who averaged 82 catches and 706 yards over his first four seasons.

With 1,114 receiving yards, not out of the question for a player with Kamara's versatility, he’d vault past the underrated Early and franchise Hall of Famers Brenner, Moore, and Henderson. He’s just 607 yards shy, lower than his five-year average, from ninth place in franchise history.

Career Extra Points
Morten Andersen - 412
John Carney - 264
Wil Lutz - 253
Another member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Andersen spent 13 seasons as a Saint and holds most of the team’s career kicking records. Lutz, who missed last year but is entering his sixth season with the team, is working his way to ‘‘The Great Dane’’ rapidly.

The 28-year-old Lutz has averaged nearly 51 extra points over his five-year career. His career best of 57 extra points in 2020 is second only to John Kasay's 63 (2011) for the highest single-season total in team history. He’ll need 3-4 more years at his current pace to pass Andersen, but should pass Carney, a Saints Hall of Famer, early this season.

Career Field Goals
Morten Andersen- 302Carney, who played eight of his 23 NFL seasons in New Orleans, is also about to give up second place to Lutz in this category. Lutz, who has converted nearly 87% of his career field goal attempts, has averaged 28 field goals per year. That includes a single-season franchise record of 32 field goals in 2019, breaking a tie of 31 between himself, Carney, and Andersen.

Rickey Jackson's 115 official sacks is currently the longest held career record by a New Orleans player. With that ready to fall, courtesy of Cam Jordan, Andersen's 27-year franchise record of successful field goals, extra points, and points scored (1,318) are next in line.

Wil Lutz will need a handful of highly productive seasons to supplant Andersen at the top of the franchise record books. However, he joins Jordan, Alvin Kamara, Mark Ingram, and Michael Thomas among the current New Orleans players carving their names into team history.

Morten Anderson-302
John Carney - 168
Wil Lutz - 142
Carney, who played eight of his 23 NFL seasons in New Orleans, is also about to give up second place to Lutz in this category. Lutz, who has converted nearly 87% of his career field goal attempts, has averaged 28 field goals per year. That includes a single-season franchise record of 32 field goals in 2019, breaking a tie of 31 between himself, Carney, and Andersen.

Rickey Jackson's 115 official sacks is currently the longest held career record by a New Orleans player. With that ready to fall, courtesy of Cam Jordan, Andersen's 27-year franchise record of successful field goals, extra points, and points scored (1,318) are next in line.

Wil Lutz will need a handful of highly productive seasons to supplant Andersen at the top of the franchise record books. However, he joins Jordan, Alvin Kamara, Mark Ingram, and Michael Thomas among the current New Orleans players carving their names into team history.