#Chiefs WR Xavier Worthy set a franchise record during his outstanding rookie campaign in Kansas City.
The Kansas City Chiefs have relied on rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy more than they had planned to when they selected him with the No. 27 pick in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft last April.
Injuries ravaged Kansas City’s depth at the wide receiver position early in the Chiefs’ 2024 campaign, and Worthy was thrown into the fire much earlier than many fans expected him to be.
But, the former Texas Longhorn rose to the occasion and officially broke Kansas City’s franchise record for most touchdowns from scrimmage by a rookie in Chiefs history.
The team commemorated Worthy’s outstanding accomplishment in a post to its official Twitter account:
Though Kansas City has seen veteran wideout Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown take the field in recent weeks after he recovered from an upper-body injury that affected his availability early in the season, Worthy’s role in the Chiefs’ offense won’t soon be supplanted by any of the team’s other pass-catchers.
Watch all 53 touchdowns scored by the Green Bay Packers during the 2024 season.
The Green Bay Packers scored 53 touchdowns across 17 regular season games and one playoff game during the 2024 season.
In all, 12 different players scored touchdowns — two quarterbacks, three running backs, five receivers, one tight end and one cornerback.
Five players — Josh Jacobs, Tucker Kraft, Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks and Emanuel Wilson — scored at least five times in 2024. Cornerback Jaire Alexander produced the lone defensive touchdown on a pick-six in Tennessee.
The Packers finished eighth in the NFL in total touchdowns during the regular season. The team’s 23 rushing touchdowns ranked fifth. Jacobs ranked fifth individually with 16 total touchdowns — the most by a Packers player since Davante Adams scored 18 touchdowns in 2020.
Jacobs also scored the team’s lone playoff touchdown.
Here are all 53 touchdowns scored by the Packers in 2024, courtesy of the team’s official YouTube page:
Kansas City #Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on paying homage to Tony Gonzalez with touchdown celebration: ‘A big tribute’ | @EdEastonJr
The records continue to favor Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who added another milestone to his career. Kelce now owns the franchise record for most receiving touchdowns in history, passing Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez.
Kelce helped lead the Chiefs to their 15th victory of the season on Christmas Day against the Pittsburgh Steelers. After the game, he spoke with reporters about his record-breaking touchdown and honored Gonzalez with his celebration.
“I knew the score and that my guy, Harrison (Butker), had my back on the field goal. So it’s just showing Tony (Gonzalez) some love and just a big tribute to who he’s been in this organization, not only this organization but who he’s been for football,” said Kelce. “We know how iconic it was that he would dunk the ball over the goal post all the time, and I gave my best effort. I don’t know if I did it quite like him, but I gave it a run.”
Kelce was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct after dunking the football through the goalpost, similar to Gonzalez during his playing days. He ended the game with eight catches for 84 yards and a touchdown, securing his 1,000th career pass.
No team has scored more touchdowns at AT&T Stadium than the Saints did in Week 2 — including the Cowboys all season long. New Orleans tore the roof off that sucker:
It’s a beautiful venue Jerry Jones built for the Dallas Cowboys, AT&T Stadium. It’s just a shame his team hasn’t scored more points for their fans than they have this season. The Cowboys have managed just five touchdowns on offense all year long, and it’s the New Orleans Saints who tore the roof off that sucker. The Saints are AT&T Stadium’s scoring leader with six touchdowns to their credit way back in Week 2.
At the same time, it’s a shame the Saints couldn’t maintain that pace. It’s why Dennis Allen got fired and they slumped into a seven-game losing streak. But the tide has turned, maybe. Darren Rizzi has brought new life to the locker room and the practice field and the sideline on game days. Klint Kubiak is running his offense the way he planned to with Pro Bowl center Erik McCoy back in the lineup and Taysom Hill recovered from injury.
The 35 points they dropped on the Cleveland Browns’ heads this Sunday were the most the Saints scored since they blew out the Cowboys in Dallas back on Sept. 15.
In a way, their bye week came at the worst time. You’d like to see the Saints keep this momentum going and continue playing fast in another matchup soon. But every team needs rest, and they could use it with McCoy on the mend (though Rizzi says he’s expected to be fine after the bye). The challenge then becomes picking up where they left off. And with the Los Angeles Rams, another playoff hopeful fighting for a winning record, coming up next? Rizzi and his squad need every minute to prepare to hit the ground running on Dec. 1.
Jimmy Graham has 3 touchdowns on 4 catches. His efficiency in the red zone begs the question: how effective could Graham be outside the 20?
Often times in life, when one question is answered another one arises. New Orleans Saints fans have often asked the question “Will the Saints use Jimmy Graham in the red zone?” all season when the fan-favorite pass-catcher was idling on the bench as a healthy scratch while their offense was failing to end drives with touchdowns.
And over the past two weeks, Graham has been successful enough inside the 20-yard line to create a new question: “Why isn’t he used more often?” Graham played a lot of snaps early in the season when Juwan Johnson was injured (including a staggering 42 of them against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 4) but he was asked to work as a run blocker (73 snaps), not a pass catcher (61 snaps), more often than not.
Graham’s success rate in his specialty role as a red zone scoring threat is ridiculous. On the season, he has 4 catches for 3 touchdowns and an additional first down.
Why not expand the role? Graham could be used not just as a red zone specialist but as a weapon on third downs, too. No one should expect him to turn back the clock a decade, but he’s shown enough in a limited capacity to draw more targets. That expansion could help a struggling passing attack that finds itself low on weapons.
The Saints’ opening drive touchdowns drought extended to 13 games against the Panthers:
This isn’t how you play a winning brand of football. The New Orleans Saints ended their opening drive against the Carolina Panthers with a missed field goal from the 29-yard line — alone, that’s a bad thing (especially for rookie kicker Blake Grupe, who is now the only specialist in the NFL with multiple misses inside 30 yards), but in the big picture it’s part of a concerning trend.
It meant the Saints offense extended its opening-drive touchdowns drought to 13 consecutive games. Like every team, the Saints scrip their first 12 to 15 plays each week to test the opponent’s vulnerabilities and gauge how the defense will react to what they’re being shown. These are often your staple plays that can reliably pick up yards and, hopefully, put points on the scoreboard.
But the Saints haven’t scored a single touchdown during their opening drives with Derek Carr at quarterback. Look at the results through 13 games, as noted by ESPN’s Katherine Terrell:
Week 1: Successful field goal
Week 2: Punt
Week 3: Punt
Week 4: Missed field goal
Week 5: Punt
Week 6: Missed field goal
Week 7: Missed field goal
Week 8: Punt
Week 9: Punt
Week 10: Punt
Week 12: Punt
Week 13: Interception
Week 14: Missed field goal
That’s discouraging. It’s downright dispiriting that this same play caller, Pete Carmichael, organized touchdown-scoring drives on his first possession in three of the last four games last year with Andy Dalton at quarterback. The receiving corps and offensive line are near-identical to what the Saints finished the season with. So why are they regressing? Carr has a lot of work to do to prove the critics who said the Saints were making a lateral move wrong.
Alvin Kamara broke the New Orleans Saints’ team record for career rushing touchdowns versus the Detroit Lions on Sunday, which was set by his former teammate Mark Ingram II. In addition to that, he also broke Marques Colston’s record for the most career yards from scrimmage in the same game.
The Saints celebrated Kamara’s accomplishments by sharing an epic highlight reel: a 14-minute compilation of all of Kamara’s rushing touchdowns. My personal favorite was his touchdown run against the Carolina Panthers from his rookie year. Luke Kuechly hit him at the goal line and Kamara rocked back then surged forward like a blow-up punching bag. Which one is your favorite?
Dennis Allen might have a type. Three of the NFL’s top-five leaders in interceptions returned for touchdowns have started for him at quarterback:
Does Dennis Allen have a type? Of the top five active quarterbacks in career pick-sixes (interceptions returned for touchdowns), three of them have started games for the New Orleans Saints at quarterback since Allen took over as head coach.
As noted by Nola.com’s Jeff Duncan, Andy Dalton ranks second among active passers with 18 pick-sixes in 169 games. Derek Carr is right behind him with 16 of them in 153 games. Jameis Winston rounds out the top-five with a dozen in 90 games.
Of course they aren’t alone; Kirk Cousins is also in the mix (14 in 150 games) and Matthew Stafford leads everyone with 30 of them in 201 games.
But it’s concerning that so many Saints quarterbacks rank high in this stat since Allen was promoted to head coach. He made the decision to sign Dalton in free agency last year and followed up by starting him for most of the season after Jameis Winston was injured and benched. It was Allen’s choice to recruit Carr to New Orleans this offseason, too.
Defenders typically don’t return an interception all the way to the end zone for a score, so this is more a ball security problem than anything. Carr has a career interceptions rate of 2%, but he’s whittled it down to 1.3% with the Saints this season. That doesn’t excuse his horrible ball placement on an interception against the Atlanta Falcons last week that was returned for a win-sealing touchdown. But we’ve got to acknowledge how critical his turnovers have been when they have occurred. Carr has thrown two pick-sixes this season against Atlanta and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
How does that compare to Dalton and Winston? Last year, Dalton threw an interception on 2.4% of his passes, which is near his career average (2.6%). And like Carr, his mistakes happened at critical times — just look at his two pick-sixes thrown against the Arizona Cardinals in the last two minutes before halftime.
As for Winston: his issues protecting the ball are well-documented, and his performance with the Saints the last two years speaks for itself. His career interceptions rate is 3.4% and he’s been picked off on 4.3% and a staggering 7.1% of his passes in the years since Sean Payton left the team. He’s only attempted 42 throws this year but he’s thrown more interceptions (3) than touchdowns (2) when asked to step in for Carr. He threw a pick-six against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season, too.
Allen’s choices of quarterbacks haven’t exactly meshed with the philosophy of a head coach who wants to run a conservative, run-first offense that can protect the ball and settle for field goals while trusting its defense to win games. Whether they’re not clutch or just unlucky, the Saints quarterbacks — especially Carr, the current unquestioned starter — must play better.
Relive every one of the Vikings 30 touchdowns through 12 games.
The Minnesota Vikings sit at 6-6 heading into their bye week. In those 12 games, they have found a way to amass 30 touchdowns.
The defense has found their way into the end zone multiple times as well, with D.J. Wonnum and Jordan Hicks finding the end zone. Interestingly enough, the Vikings won both games where the defense scored.
The offense has found its way into the end zone 28 times with rookie Jordan Addison scoring seven of them. 23 of their touchdowns have come through the air and five of them have come on the ground with all five of those coming from week eight and beyond.
With the bye week here, relive every Vikings touchdown from the all-22 view.
Not too shabby. Taysom Hill stamped his place in NFL history with his touchdown catch against the Chicago Bears on Sunday, joining four other players in the “10-10-10” club. Frank Gifford, Red Grange, Charley Trippi, Jimmy Conzelman and Hill are the only players in league history to throw 10 touchdown passes and score 10 apiece as a runner and receiver.
It’s actually something Hill had already accomplished if you include the playoffs, but now you can leave that qualifier out. Hill has been a reliable scoring threat for the New Orleans Saints with 10 touchdown receptions, 10 touchdown passes and 26 rushing touchdowns in his career during the regular season.
The most recent player to reach the milestone was Gifford, the former New York Giants halfback who was a dynamic do-it-all threat in his illustrious 136-game career from 1952 to 1964. He ended his career with 34 rushing touchdowns, 43 touchdown catches and 14 touchdown passes. Gifford won an NFL championship with the Giants and earned eight Pro Bowl nods, plus four spots on the All-Pro team. Those are lofty heights for Hill to chase, but it’s great company to keep.
Update: Hill later threw a touchdown pass against the Bears, giving him 11 such scores in his career.
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