With the 2026 regular season just around the corner, the Saints have a handful of players sitting on some notable statistical landmarks. Some are close enough to hit them early.
Others would need a full season push. Either way, there’s plenty on the line in the numbers game.
Cameron Jordan is at the center of it. He’s back for a 15th season after posting his first double-digit sack total since 2021, and his career total sits at 132 sacks.
That puts him 17th on the official all-time list and 22nd on the unofficial one. A modest jump could send him climbing fast: 6.5 sacks would move him into the top 10 officially, while 10 sacks would leave him 6th on the official list and in the top 10 unofficially.
If he matches his 2025 production, he’d end the year with more sacks than Jared Allen, Jason Taylor, and DeMarcus Ware. The Hall of Fame comparison is already hard to ignore, too - everyone who has finished with at least 136 sacks is in or headed there, including Terrell Suggs and Von Miller.
If Miller stays unsigned, Jordan opens the season as the active career sacks leader.
He’s also just two tackles for loss away from moving into third all-time in that category, which has been tracked since 1999. That would push him past Lavonte David and Von Miller, with only JJ Watt, Calais Campbell, and Terrell Suggs ahead of him. If Jordan gets to 6.5 sacks and 2 TFLs this season, the case for Canton gets even louder.
Alvin Kamara is chasing a different kind of milestone, but the kind that says plenty about how unique his career has been. He needs 52 receiving yards to reach 5,000 for his career.
If he gets there, he’ll become just the 6th player in NFL history with 5,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards. Four of the five others are already in the Hall of Fame, and the remaining two - Tiki Barber and Christian McCaffrey - could end up there as well.
Kamara’s receiving production already stacks up with some of the best to ever play the position. He has more receiving yards than Roger Craig, and among running backs he’s 235 yards from passing Barber for 7th all-time and 463 from passing Marcus Allen for 6th.
McCaffrey is currently 6th and just 21 yards behind Allen, so that ranking could keep shifting. Kamara is also one of only six running backs in NFL history with 600 or more career receptions.
He needs five catches to move into the top five all-time and 19 to reach fourth. Add in the touchdowns, and the profile gets even rarer: with at least 7,000 rushing yards, 5,000 receiving yards, 60 rushing touchdowns, and 25 receiving touchdowns, he’d join only Marshall Faulk and McCaffrey as the third player ever to hit those marks.
Injuries have kept him from getting to some of these thresholds over the last two seasons, but this year is set up for him to finally clear them. Another strong season or two would only strengthen his Hall of Fame case.
Tyler Shough is already in position to make a quick climb in the Saints record book after a strong rookie season in 2025. In his second year, he’s within reach of the team’s top 10 in passing yards.
He needs 1,287 yards to pass Ken Stabler for 10th and 1,496 to move into 9th. Derek Carr currently holds 8th with 6,023 yards, which is 3,640 ahead of Shough.
But if Shough repeats his 2025 average of 216.7 yards per game and plays every game, he’d finish with 3,684 yards and pass Carr in only his second season with the team. He’s also 11 passing touchdowns from the Saints’ top 10.
The long-term hope is obvious: finish second all-time in all the passing categories that matter, without asking him to chase Drew Brees.
Chris Olave is also set up for a jump up the Saints charts after rebounding from an injury-hit 2024 and then delivering a career year in 2025, one that earned him a $132 million extension. He’s currently 12th in team history in receiving yards, but he’s close to moving well up the list.
He needs 122 yards to crack the top 10, 1,064 to pass Jimmy Graham for 7th, and 1,148 to move past Danny Abramowicz for 6th. Given the pace he’s already established, a top-five finish in Saints receiving yards looks realistic.
He’s already more than halfway to Michael Thomas’s career total, and he ranks third in team history in receiving yards per game, behind Thomas and Joe Horn.
Jordyn Tyson enters the season with the usual rookie challenge: Saints receiving records are a tough mountain to climb. The franchise has a strong history at the position, including being the only Super Bowl era team with three different rookie receivers to top 1,030 receiving yards.
The team rookie records for a receiver are 1,138 yards, 93 catches, and 10 touchdowns. That’s a steep ask for any first-year player.
Still, if Tyson gets to 1,000 receiving yards, he’d join Marques Colston, Michael Thomas, and Olave as the only Saints rookies to do it.
Travis Etienne Jr., the Saints’ top offseason signing, arrives from Jacksonville with 4,000 career rushing yards already within reach. He needs 202 more to get there and is 1,202 away from 5,000.
And Juwan Johnson has a pair of team-history targets in sight as well. He’s 714 receiving yards and one touchdown away from moving into the top three among Saints tight ends in both categories.
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