- Super Bowl XLIV Champion
- Super Bowl XLIV Most Valuable Player
- Passing Yards
- 68,010
- Passing Touchdowns
- 491
The architect of the greatest era in Saints football, and the owner of nearly every passing record the franchise has.
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Who Dat Stats · Franchise history
Saints Hall of Fame
The players who built the franchise.
Explore the careers, statistics, defining moments and lasting legacies of the greatest players in New Orleans Saints history — from the expansion roster of 1967 to the men still playing.
Every statistic on these pages is sourced and dated. Where a number could not be verified, the profile says so rather than filling the space.
The Hall of Fame at a glance
- Legends featured
- 27Profiles on this page
- Pro Football Hall of Famers
- 5Enshrined in Canton
- Super Bowl champions
- 6Rings won anywhere in the NFL
- Franchise eras
- 6 of 61967–2025
- Positions represented
- 9QB · RB · WR · TE · OL · DL · LB · DB · ST
Dome Patrol & The First WinnersFeatured legend
Morten Andersen
K · #7 · New Orleans Saints 1982–1994
- Pro Football Hall of Fame
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- NFL career scoring record at his retirement
- 7x Pro Bowl
Morten Andersen came to Louisiana from Denmark as an exchange student who had never played American football, and left the NFL twenty-five years later as its all-time leading scorer. Thirteen of those seasons were in New Orleans, where he remains the franchise’s career points leader. He is one of only two pure placekickers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Points
- 1,318
- Field Goals Made
- 302
- Seasons
- 13
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Franchise impact is a Who Dat Stats ranking, not an official measure. It weighs enshrinement, championships won in New Orleans, selections, franchise records and years in the uniform.
- Pro Football Hall of Fame
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Points
- 1,318
- Field Goals Made
- 302
The Great Dane: the franchise’s all-time leading scorer and, for a decade, the most reliable kicker alive.
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- Pro Football Hall of Fame
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Pro Bowls as a Saint
- 7
Nine seasons at left tackle without a weak one, and the most decorated offensive lineman the franchise has had.
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- Super Bowl XLIV Champion
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- First-team All-Pro
- 4
- Pro Bowls
- 6
A Division II fourth-round pick who became the best guard of his decade and started every game of the championship season.
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- Super Bowl XXIX Champion· San Francisco 49ers
- Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Sacks
- 115.0
The first player enshrined in Canton as a Saint, and the edge rusher the Dome Patrol was built around.
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- Pro Football Hall of Fame
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Pro Bowls as a Saint
- 4
Five foot nine, cut twice before he ever played an NFL down, and the middle of the Dome Patrol.
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- Pro Football Hall of Fame
- NFL Champion· Chicago Bears
A Hall of Fame defensive end who finished his seventeen-year career giving the expansion Saints a real player.
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- Super Bowl XLIV Champion
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Receptions
- 711
- Receiving Yards
- 9,759
The 252nd pick of the 2006 draft, and the franchise’s all-time leader in catches, yards and touchdowns.
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- First-team All-Pro
- 8x Pro Bowl
- Sacks
- 118.5
- Pro Bowls
- 8
The franchise sack record, a decade of ironman starts, and the last man standing from the Super Bowl era.
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- AP Offensive Player of the Year
- 2x First-team All-Pro
- Receptions
- 565
- Receiving Yards
- 6,569
The most receptions anyone has caught in a single NFL season, and the best four-year run a Saints receiver has had.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- 2x Pro Bowl
- Rushing Yards
- 6,096
- Rushing Touchdowns
- 49
The franchise’s all-time leading rusher, and the player who carried the offense from the Haslett years into the Payton era.
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- Super Bowl XXII Champion· Washington
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Rookie Rushing Yards
- 1,674
The first overall pick who led the NFL in rushing as a rookie — still the best first season any Saint has had.
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- Super Bowl XLIV Champion
- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Sacks
- 67.5
The pass rush of the championship defense, and a first-round pick who spent his whole career in New Orleans.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year
- Sacks
- 76.5
- Single-Season High
- 17.0 (1991)
The only Saint ever named NFL Defensive Player of the Year, and the Dome Patrol’s pure pass rusher.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- NFC Player of the Year
- Passing Yards
- 21,734
A decade of brilliant quarterbacking on teams that never had a winning season, and the most beloved Saint of the pre-Dome Patrol years.
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- AP Offensive Rookie of the Year
- Tied the NFL record for rushing touchdowns in a game
- Rookie Scrimmage Yards
- 1,554
- Pro Bowls
- 5
Offensive Rookie of the Year, five straight Pro Bowls, and six rushing touchdowns in a single Christmas afternoon.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- 4x Pro Bowl
- Pro Bowls
- 4
The quietest quarter of the Dome Patrol, and four straight Pro Bowls in the middle of it.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- 4x Pro Bowl
- 1,000-Yard Seasons
- 4
- Career High
- 1,399 yards (2004)
Four Pro Bowls, four 1,000-yard seasons, and the most famous touchdown celebration in franchise history.
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- First-team All-Pro
- 3x Pro Bowl as a Saint
- Single-Season TD Record
- 16 (2013)
- Pro Bowls as a Saint
- 3
A basketball player with one year of college football who became the most productive tight end in franchise history.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- USFL Championship Game Most Valuable Player· Michigan Panthers
The Cajun Cannon: a Louisiana quarterback who took the franchise to its first winning season.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Pro Bowl
- Sacks
- 82.5
Eleven seasons on the defensive line, and second in franchise sack history for two decades.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- NFL receptions leader
A 17th-round pick who led the NFL in receptions and gave the expansion Saints their first star.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Congressional Gold Medal
One blocked punt, on the night the Superdome reopened, cast in bronze outside the building.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Pro Bowl
The franchise’s receiving record holder for nineteen years, and the only real passing threat the Dome Patrol teams had.
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- New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame
- Longest field goal in NFL history, 1970–2013
- Longest Field Goal
- 63 yards (1970)
Sixty-three yards, on the last play, with half a foot: the longest field goal in football for forty-three years.
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- 3x Pro Bowl as a Saint
- Pro Bowls as a Saint
- 3
A third-round pick from an FCS school who ran the fastest 40 an offensive lineman ever had, then protected Drew Brees for nine years.
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- NFL single-season all-purpose yards record
- All-Purpose Yards, 2011
- 2,696
Three seasons in New Orleans, and the most all-purpose yards anyone has gained in an NFL season.
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Compare legends
Pick two or three. Selecting a fourth replaces the oldest choice, and two is the minimum. These are careers — tenure, honours, championships and franchise records — which is what can be compared across positions and decades. For this season's snaps and efficiency, the current-roster comparison measures the players still playing.
These players played different positions, so the comparison is limited to longevity, recognition and franchise records. Select players from the same position group to compare production directly.
| Measure | Drew BreesQB · 2006–2020 | Morten AndersenK · 1982–1994 |
|---|---|---|
| Position | QB · Quarterback | K · Specialist |
| Saints years | 2006–2020 | 1982–1994 |
| Seasons in New Orleans | 15 | 13 |
| Era | The Brees & Payton Era | Dome Patrol & The First Winners |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame | — | Yes |
| Saints Hall of Fame | — | Yes |
| Super Bowl titles | 1 | — |
| Pro Bowls | 13 | 7 |
| First-team All-Pro | — | — |
| Major awards | 5 | — |
| Saints franchise records held | 4 | 2 |
Six eras of Saints football
Statistics from different decades are not the same statistic. Pick an era to see who played in it; the milestones and the league environment behind its numbers are on the franchise history page.
The Modern Saints
Life after the quarterback who rewrote the record book.
Drew Brees retired after the 2020 season and Sean Payton left a year later. What followed is a franchise working out its next identity around the last holdovers from the championship era and the players drafted to replace them.
2 franchise moments and the league environment →Legends from this era
How this page is built
Official honors versus our categories
Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement, Saints Hall of Fame induction, Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections, league awards and championships are conferred by the NFL, the Hall or the club, and are shown as honors. Groupings such as Franchise Legend, Modern Era Icon and Fan Favorite are Who Dat Stats editorial categories and are labelled as such.
Where the numbers come from
Career statistics are compiled from Pro Football Reference and the club’s published records, and each profile states the season it is current through plus its sources. Saints production is kept separate from full NFL career production for every player who also played elsewhere. Sacks are official from 1982 only; tackles from before the 2000s were kept by clubs rather than the league and are not shown at all.