New Orleans Saints

Every NFL player the encyclopedia attributes to the New Orleans Saintsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth (complete 1999+, legend-era via validated Wikipedia/NFL.com grids).

Every position room New Orleans Saints has passed down, steadiest first. The QB room is their most stable — 3 holders across 27 years, a new one every 9 on average.

1. QB3 holders · 2 handoffs · 1994–2020 · one every 9y
   Jim Everett1994–1996→Aaron Brooks2000–2005→Drew Brees2006–2020
2. Specialists7 holders · 6 handoffs · 1984–2025 · one every 6y
   Brian Hansen1984–1988→Tommy Barnhardt1987–1999→Mark Royals1997–1998→John Carney2001–2010→Thomas Morstead2009–2020→Wil Lutz2016–2022→Blake Grupe2023–2025
3. TE14 holders · 13 handoffs · 1981–2025 · one every 3.2y
   Hoby Brenner1981–1993→John Tice1983–1991→Derek Brown1993–1996→Wesley Walls1994–1995→Cameron Cleeland1998–2001→Boo Williams2001–2004→Jeremy Shockey2008–2010→David Thomas2009–2012→Jimmy Graham2010–2023→Benjamin Watson2013–2018→Josh Hill2013–2020→Taysom Hill2017–2025→Jared Cook2019–2020→Juwan Johnson2020–2025
4. DL19 holders · 18 handoffs · 1989–2025 · one every 1.9y
   Wayne Martin1989–1999→Joe Johnson1994–2001→Brady Smith1996–1999→La'Roi Glover1997–2001→Willie Whitehead1999–2006→Norman Hand2000–2002→Darren Howard2000–2005→Charles Grant2002–2009→Brian Young2004–2008→Sedrick Ellis2008–2012→Cameron Jordan2011–2025→Sheldon Rankins2016–2020→David Onyemata2016–2022→Trey Hendrickson2017–2020→Marcus Davenport2018–2022→Carl Granderson2019–2025→Bryan Bresee2023–2025→Nathan Shepherd2023–2025→Chase Young2024–2025
5. RB27 holders · 26 handoffs · 1981–2025 · one every 1.7y
   George Rogers1981–1984→Hokie Gajan1982–1985→Rueben Mayes1986–1990→Dalton Hilliard1986–1993→Craig Heyward1988–1992→Gill Fenerty1990–1991→Fred McAfee1991–2006→Lorenzo Neal1993–1996→Mario Bates1994–1997→Ray Zellars1995–1998→Aaron Craver1998–1999→Lamar Smith1998–2003→Terrelle Smith2000–2003→Deuce McAllister2001–2008→Aaron Stecker2004–2008→Mike Karney2004–2008→Reggie Bush2006–2010→Pierre Thomas2007–2014→Chris Ivory2010–2012→Darren Sproles2011–2013→Jed Collins2011–2013→Mark Ingram2011–2022→Travaris Cadet2012–2016→Khiry Robinson2013–2015→Tim Hightower2015–2016→Alvin Kamara2017–2025→Latavius Murray2019–2020
6. LB22 holders · 21 handoffs · 1994–2025 · one every 1.5y
   Winfred Tubbs1994–1997→Richard Harvey1995–1997→Mark Fields1995–2000→Keith Mitchell1997–2001→Darrin Smith2000–2003→Charlie Clemons2001–2002→Sedrick Hodge2001–2005→Will Smith2004–2012→Scott Fujita2006–2009→Danny Clark2006–2010→Scott Shanle2006–2012→Jonathan Vilma2008–2013→Jo-Lonn Dunbar2008–2015→Junior Galette2010–2014→Curtis Lofton2012–2014→David Hawthorne2012–2015→Craig Robertson2016–2020→A.J. Klein2017–2019→Alex Anzalone2017–2020→Demario Davis2018–2025→Kwon Alexander2020–2021→Pete Werner2021–2025

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1981–2025 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.