Contemporary Orleans Saints running assist Alvin Kamara has been positioned on the Covid-19 list, leaving his taking half in field for Sunday’s regular-season finale on the Carolina Panthers in expect.
Kamara, in his fourth season out of Tennessee, turned in an historic performance in the team’s Christmas Day victory over the Minnesota Vikings as he rushed for six touchdowns, tying a 91-year-dilapidated league document.
Kamara carried 22 times for a career-high 155 yards (7.0 avg.), including three receptions for 17 yards for 172 total yards from scrimmage against the Vikings. The speeding touchdowns document tied the document held by Ernie Nevers of the Chicago Cardinals, location Nov. 28, 1929, while for total touchdowns, Kamara joins Nevers, the Cleveland Browns’ Dub Jones (Nov. 25, 1951) and the Chicago Bears’ Gale Sayers (Dec.12, 1965).
Kamara has carried 187 times for a career-high 932 yards (5.0 avg.) with 16 touchdowns this season, tied for first in the NFL. He leads all running backs in receiving with a career-ideal and team-main 83 receptions for 756 yards (9.1 avg.) with five touchdowns. Kamara, who shall be utterly the second Saints player to book the team in both speeding and receiving, currently leads the NFL with a franchise-document 21 total touchdowns after his Christmas Day scoring outburst, is ranked second in the league with 93 first downs and third with a career-ideal 1,688 total yards from scrimmage, the seventh-absolute most life like total in club historic past. He is the utterly Saint to be selected to the Professional Bowl in every of his first four seasons.
Kamara is the second player the team positioned on the list this week, becoming a member of defensive assist C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
The Saints (11-4) will play the Carolina Panthers (5-10) on Sunday, Jan. 3, in the regular-season finale. Contemporary Orleans, winners of the NFC South for the fourth consecutive season, soundless has a shot on the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoffs and can not attain worse than the third seed.
