Saints’ Alvin Kamara has career-high first half against Packers
In a first half that saw the Saints up 17-13 on the Packers, running back Alvin Kamara had a career-high half that needs to be mentioned.
The New Orleans Saints are coming off of a loss to the Las Vegas Raiders that was not very pretty. Even though the ugliness, Kamara was still a bright light that was being seen by all the Saints’ fans across the country.
Earlier this season, Kamara signed a massive extension worth roughly $75 million. It was something that had been being discussed for weeks. Rumors even started to swirl that the Saints were looking to trade Kamara.
There were even rumors about Alvin Kamara potentially holding out of the season if he did not get the contract that he thought he deserved. Obviously, both rumors ended up not being true, and it is a good thing they weren’t.
That would have been the worst mistake of their life. In the loss last week against the Raiders, Kamara led the team in rushing yards with 79 and two rushing touchdowns. He also led the team in receiving yards with nine receptions for 95 yards.
Alvin Kamara is the RB everyone aspires to be.pic.twitter.com/vdgjdsVNkj
— PFF (@PFF) September 28, 2020
He picked up Sunday night right where he left off last Monday night. In the first half of the Saints game against the Packers, Kamara totaled 56 rushing yards and seven receptions for 76 yards, and a touchdown added to it.
In that half, Kamara set a career-high for himself in yards from scrimmage in a single half. He totaled 117 yards from scrimmage, which is both rushing and receiving yards. This is just continuing to show us how good Kamara actually is.
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He took that $75 million from the Saints, and he showed them, and the fans, that he was worth every single dollar of it. Hopefully, this is just the beginning of many career highs that are going to be broken by Kamara in the next five years.