Alvin Kamara joins exclusive club with historic career milestone
By Mark Kern
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Alvin Kamara has had an incredible NFL career for the New Orleans Saints, emerging as one of the best all-purpose backs in the league. He has many extremely impressive milestone accomplishments, and he added to that list on Sunday.
During the Saints 34-27 win at the New York Giants, he became only the sixth player in NFL history to have 5,000 rushing and 5,000 receiving yards.
The New Orleans Saints drafted him with the No. 67 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, and he became the focal point of their offense almost instantly. After Sunday’s game, he has 7,730 rushing yards and 63 rushing touchdowns, while also having 5,024 receiving yards and 26 receiving touchdowns.
Kamara was named the Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2017, and was also a Pro-Bowler five different times in his career.
He is tied with Gale Sayers for most rushing touchdowns (6) and points (36) in an NFL game, while also being tied with Saquon Barkley, Marshall Faulk and Zach Ertz with seven 2-point conversions.
Kamara played his college football at Tennessee from 2015 to 2016 and finished with 1,294 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns. He also had 683 receiving yards and seven touchdowns.
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