new orleans saints best rushing yards in a season

The New Orleans Saints had their most rushing yards in a season in 1979, with 2,476 yards.

TEAMRUSH YDSSEASONGPATTYPCRUSH YDS/GRUSH TD
1Saints
Saints
2,476
1979
16
551
4.5
154.8
28
2Saints
Saints
2,461
1983
16
595
4.1
153.8
19
3Saints
Saints
2,286
1981
16
546
4.2
142.9
16
4Saints
Saints
2,265
2020
16
494
4.6
141.6
30
5Saints
Saints
2,190
1987
15
569
3.8
146.0
20
6Saints
Saints
2,171
1984
16
523
4.2
135.7
9
7Saints
Saints
2,127
2011
16
431
4.9
132.9
16
8Saints
Saints
2,106
2009
16
468
4.5
131.6
21
9Saints
Saints
2,074
1986
16
505
4.1
129.6
15
10Saints
Saints
2,070
2017
16
444
4.7
129.4
23
11Saints
Saints
2,068
2000
16
505
4.1
129.3
14
12Saints
Saints
2,046
1988
16
512
4.0
127.9
9
13Saints
Saints
2,025
2018
16
471
4.3
126.6
26
14Saints
Saints
2,024
1977
14
484
4.2
144.6
14
15Saints
Saints
2,000
2003
16
448
4.5
125.0
11
16Saints
Saints
1,991
2021
17
510
3.9
117.1
12
17Saints
Saints
1,983
1974
14
503
3.9
141.6
9
18Saints
Saints
1,980
2022
17
465
4.3
116.5
12
19Saints
Saints
1,954
2024
17
444
4.4
114.9
15
20Saints
Saints
1,948
1989
16
502
3.9
121.8
19
21Saints
Saints
1,850
1990
16
464
4.0
115.6
14
22Saints
Saints
1,845
1978
16
512
3.6
115.3
17
23Saints
Saints
1,842
1973
14
497
3.7
131.6
5
24Saints
Saints
1,818
2014
16
406
4.5
113.6
16
25Saints
Saints
1,775
1976
14
431
4.1
126.8
16
StatMuse has team, season-level data for rushing yards going back to the 1932 season.

More Saints Stats

Team Leaders

PASS

2,384

Shough

Tyler Shough

RUSH

471

Kamara

Alvin Kamara

REC

1,163

Olave

Chris Olave
Team Rankings

PPG

18.0

28th

OPP PPG

22.5

16th

RUSH YDS/G

94.3

28th

PASS YDS/G

236.9

10th

2025 Division Standings
TEAMWLTPCT
8
9
0
.471
8
9
0
.471
8
9
0
.471
Saints Saints
6
11
0
.353
Last Game
NO Saints

6 - 11

17

Final

19

ATL Falcons

8 - 9

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NFL 2025 Leaders

NFL 2025 Rankings

NFL Fantasy 2025

NFL 2025 Betting

NFL 2025 Standings

AFC EastWLTPCT
14
3
0
.824
Bills Bills - w
12
5
0
.706
7
10
0
.412
Jets Jets - e
3
14
0
.176
AFC NorthWLTPCT
10
7
0
.588
8
9
0
.471
6
11
0
.353
5
12
0
.294
AFC SouthWLTPCT
13
4
0
.765
12
5
0
.706
Colts Colts - e
8
9
0
.471
3
14
0
.176
AFC WestWLTPCT
14
3
0
.824
11
6
0
.647
6
11
0
.353
3
14
0
.176
NFC EastWLTPCT
11
6
0
.647
7
9
1
.441
5
12
0
.294
4
13
0
.235
NFC NorthWLTPCT
Bears Bears - y
11
6
0
.647
9
7
1
.559
9
8
0
.529
Lions Lions - e
9
8
0
.529
NFC SouthWLTPCT
8
9
0
.471
8
9
0
.471
8
9
0
.471
6
11
0
.353
NFC WestWLTPCT
14
3
0
.824
Rams Rams - w
12
5
0
.706
49ers 49ers - w
12
5
0
.706
3
14
0
.176

NFL 2025 Scores & Schedule

Scores

DATEMATCHUPSCORE
Sat
10/4
@
22-21
Sat
10/4
@
38-35
Sat
10/4
@
37-24
Sat
10/4
@
27-10
Sat
10/4
@
23-20

Schedule

DATEMATCHUPTIME (ET)
Sat
1/10
@
4:30 PM
Sat
1/10
@
8:00 PM
Sun
1/11
@
1:00 PM
Sun
1/11
@
4:30 PM
Sun
1/11
@
8:00 PM