most receiving yards player new orleans saints in a rookie season

Michael Thomas has the most yards on receptions by a Saints rookie, with 1,137 yards in 2016.

	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	Alvin Kamara A. Kamara	826	2017	NO	16	81	100	10.2	51.6	5	728	120	6.1	45.5	8
6	Reggie Bush R. Bush	742	2006	NO	16	88	121	8.4	46.4	2	565	155	3.6	35.3	6
7	Danny Abramowicz D. Abramowicz	721	1967	NO	14	50		14.4	51.5	6	0	0		0.0	0
8	Cameron Cleeland C. Cleeland	684	1998	NO	16	54		12.7	42.8	6	0	0		0.0	0
9	Kenny Stills K. Stills	641	2013	NO	16	32	50	20.0	40.1	5	10	3	3.3	0.6	0
10	Donte' Stallworth D. Stallworth	594	2002	NO	13	42	69	14.1	45.7	8	2	2	1.0	0.2	0
11	Brandin Cooks B. Cooks	550	2014	NO	10	53	69	10.4	55.0	3	73	7	10.4	7.3	1
12	Eric Martin E. Martin	522	1985	NO	16	35		14.9	32.6	4	-1	2	-0.5	-0.1	0
13	Rashid Shaheed R. Shaheed	488	2022	NO	12	28	34	17.4	40.7	2	57	4	14.3	4.8	1
14	Eugene Goodlow E. Goodlow	487	1983	NO	16	41		11.9	30.4	2	3	1	3.0	0.2	0
15	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	472	1978	NO	16	35		13.5	29.5	2	10	2	5.0	0.6	0
16	Paul Seal P. Seal	466	1974	NO	14	32		14.6	33.3	3	7	2	3.5	0.5	1
17	Joel Parker J. Parker	455	1974	NO	14	41		11.1	32.5	4	2	2	1.0	0.1	0
18	Brandon Coleman B. Coleman	454	2015	NO	16	30	49	15.1	28.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
19	Jubilee Dunbar J. Dunbar	447	1973	NO	14	23		19.4	31.9	4	3	3	1.0	0.2	0
20	Tre'Quan Smith T. Smith	427	2018	NO	15	28	44	15.3	28.5	5	0	0		0.0	0
21	Tony Galbreath T. Galbreath	420	1976	NO	14	54		7.8	30.0	1	570	136	4.2	40.7	7
22	Joseph Morgan J. Morgan	379	2012	NO	14	10	20	37.9	27.1	3	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
23	Jimmy Graham J. Graham	356	2010	NO	15	31	44	11.5	23.7	5	3	1	3.0	0.2	0
24	Lonzell Hill L. Hill	322	1987	NO	10	19		16.9	32.2	2	-9	1	-9.0	-0.9	0
25	Bob Newland B. Newland	319	1971	NO	14	21		15.2	22.8	0	0	0		0.0	0

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