Game Notes: Los Angeles Rams 21, New Orleans Saints 14 | 2024 NFL Week 13

Alvin Kamara adds 112 yards on the ground, Bryan Breese and Nathan Shepard both record sacks

Dec 01, 2024 at 09:57 PM

• The Saints fell to the Los Angeles Rams 21-14 on Sunday to drop to 4-8. They will return to action on December 8, when they play the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium. Kickoff is at 12:00 p.m. CT, and the contest will be regionally televised on FOX (broadcast locally on WVUE FOX 8).

• New Orleans shut out the Rams in the first half. It marked the first time that Los Angeles were shut out by a team in the first half of a regular season contest in Head Coach Sean McVay's tenure dating back to 2017.

• New Orleans won the time of possession battle, 32:37-27:23.

• Rams QB Matthew Stafford's first-half passing yardage total of 23 yards was his lowest first-half total since being acquired by the Rams in a trade in 2021.

• QB Derek Carr finished 24-of-37 for 184 yards and a touchdown pass and zero interceptions while adding two carries for 12 yards on the ground. The scoring throw came on a 28-yard strike in the fourth quarter to WR Marquez Valdes-Scantling. Carr has not thrown an interception in four games, the first time as a Saint he has not done so, and the first time he has not done so in four consecutive games since an eight-contest stretch from December 8, 2019-October 4, 2020, as a member of the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders.

• RB Alvin Kamara continued to be productive in the Saints' backfield with 23 carries for 112 yards while adding four receptions for seven yards. His 1,344 yards from scrimmage on the season are his highest total since having 1,387 in 15 games in 2022. Kamara now has 894 yards rushing on the season, needing 39 on Sunday at the Giants to set a new career high and 106 to reach 1,000 yards rushing for the first time.

• With his 112 rushing yards, he now has 6,723 for his career, surpassing Mark van Eeghen and former Saint Chuck Muncie to move into 76th all-time in NFL record books for all-time career rushing yards.

• Valdes-Scantling finished with two receptions for 36 yards and the score. It marked the first time in his seven-year NFL career to have caught touchdowns in three consecutive contests. The last Saint to catch touchdowns in three consecutive contests was WR Marquez Callaway from November 7-November 21, 2021.

• TE Taysom Hill tied for the Saints receiving lead before leaving due to a knee injury in the second half, finishing with five grabs for 37 yards and ten yards rushing.

• TE Juwan Johnson tied a team-high with five receptions for 36 yards.

• DT Bryan Bresee has upped his career-high and team-best total to 6.5 sacks in 2024 after dropping Rams QB Matthew Stafford for a nine-yard loss in the third quarter. He moves into a tie with La'Roi Glover (1997) and Nick Fairley (2016) for the sixth-highest single-season total by a defensive tackle in club history.

• DB Ugo Amadi led the defensive effort with nine tackles (eight solo) and added one pass defense.

• DT Nathan Shepherd recorded his first full sack of the season in the first half.

• P Matthew Hayball punted three times for 128 yards (42.7 gross/net avg), including two downed inside the 20-yard line.

• K Blake Grupe made a pair of 54-yard field goals and had a special teams tackle.

• DB J.T. Gray recorded one special teams stop to reach a career-high 20 for the season, becoming the first Saint to have 20 coverage stops in a season since CB Usama Young in 2007.

Photos: Game Action | Saints vs Rams | 2024 NFL Week 13