most receiving yards per in season saints rookie wide receiver since 1978

Since 1978, Michael Thomas has the most yards on receptions for the Saints in his rookie season by a wide receiver, with 1,137 yards in 2016.

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Data note: Receiving Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Michael Thomas M. Thomas	1,137	2016	NO	15	92	121	12.4	75.8	9	0	0		0.0	0
2	Chris Olave C. Olave	1,042	2022	NO	15	72	119	14.5	69.5	4	0	0		0.0	0
3	Marques Colston M. Colston	1,038	2006	NO	14	70	115	14.8	74.1	8	0	0		0.0	0
4	Willie Snead W. Snead	984	2015	NO	15	69	101	14.3	65.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
5	Kenny Stills K. Stills	641	2013	NO	16	32	50	20.0	40.1	5	10	3	3.3	0.6	0
6	Donte' Stallworth D. Stallworth	594	2002	NO	13	42	69	14.1	45.7	8	2	2	1.0	0.2	0
7	Brandin Cooks B. Cooks	550	2014	NO	10	53	69	10.4	55.0	3	73	7	10.4	7.3	1
8	Eric Martin E. Martin	522	1985	NO	16	35		14.9	32.6	4	-1	2	-0.5	-0.1	0
9	Rashid Shaheed R. Shaheed	488	2022	NO	12	28	34	17.4	40.7	2	57	4	14.3	4.8	1
10	Eugene Goodlow E. Goodlow	487	1983	NO	16	41		11.9	30.4	2	3	1	3.0	0.2	0
11	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	472	1978	NO	16	35		13.5	29.5	2	10	2	5.0	0.6	0
12	Brandon Coleman B. Coleman	454	2015	NO	16	30	49	15.1	28.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
13	Tre'Quan Smith T. Smith	427	2018	NO	15	28	44	15.3	28.5	5	0	0		0.0	0
14	Joseph Morgan J. Morgan	379	2012	NO	14	10	20	37.9	27.1	3	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
15	Lonzell Hill L. Hill	322	1987	NO	10	19		16.9	32.2	2	-9	1	-9.0	-0.9	0
16	Robert Meachem R. Meachem	289	2008	NO	14	12	20	24.1	20.6	3	20	1	20.0	1.4	1
17	Floyd Turner F. Turner	279	1989	NO	13	22		12.7	21.5	1	8	2	4.0	0.6	0
18	Torrance Small T. Small	278	1992	NO	13	23		12.1	21.4	3	0	0		0.0	0
19	Lindsay Scott L. Scott	251	1982	NO	8	17		14.8	31.4	0	-4	1	-4.0	-0.5	0
20	A.T. Perry	246	2023	NO	10	12	18	20.5	24.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
21	Brett Perriman B. Perriman	215	1988	NO	16	16		13.4	13.4	2	17	3	5.7	1.1	0
22	Marquez Callaway M. Callaway	213	2020	NO	11	21	27	10.1	19.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Keith Kirkwood K. Kirkwood	209	2018	NO	8	13	21	16.1	26.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
24	Kenny Duckett K. Duckett	196	1982	NO	7	12		16.3	28.0	2	0	0		0.0	0
25	Wesley Carroll W. Carroll	184	1991	NO	12	18		10.2	15.3	1	0	0		0.0	0

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Lions	5	2	0	.714
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