Overview
- The rookie led a tying touchdown drive and then a final-seconds field-goal march to beat the Panthers 20-17 one week after a game-winning score at Tampa Bay.
- Since taking over in Week 8, he is 3-3 with a 66.7% completion rate, 1,484 passing yards and six touchdown passes, and he leads rookie quarterbacks in passing yards per PFF.
- Pro Football Focus ranked him among the NFL’s top rookies and he was nominated for NFL Rookie of the Week for Week 15.
- He set the Saints’ rookie single-season passing record and tied Archie Manning’s franchise rookie mark for touchdown passes.
- New Orleans’ pass defense ranks sixth and has six fourth-down stops over two wins, but the offense still ranks 27th in rushing and allowed five sacks vs. Carolina, factors cited as reasons analysts say the draft plan could shift toward building around Shough.