{"id":193612,"date":"2025-07-09T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193612\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:29:14","slug":"taysom-hills-game-breaking-60-yard-td-run-is-the-saints-play-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/193612\/","title":{"rendered":"Taysom Hill&#8217;s game-breaking 60-yard TD run is the Saints Play of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our countdown to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-orleans-saints\/350\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Saints;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Saints<\/a>&#8216; 2025 season opener is on Day 60, which means we have an easy pick for the Saints Play of the Day: Taysom Hill&#8217;s 60-yard touchdown run against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/seattle-seahawks\/361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Seahawks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Seahawks<\/a> back in 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ivNJHNjafRw?t=584\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can see it for yourself right here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">You can see it for yourself right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints only needed one yard from Hill on the play to convert a first down, but he gave them a lot more. This was his third touchdown run of the day and it helped him rush for a career-high 112 yards on the grown, winning recognition as NFC Offensive Player of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Seahawks cornerback Tariq Woolen tried to bring Hill down around the 12-yard line, but Hill fought through the contact to reach the end zone before falling to the turf. That gave the Saints a go-ahead score and just enough breathing room for Dennis Allen&#8217;s defense to seal the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Hill is responsible for all three rushing attempts to gain 50 or more yards by Saints players since Drew Brees retired in 2021. This 60-yarder outdid his own 57-yard carry against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/atlanta-falcons\/323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Falcons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Falcons<\/a> a month earlier in 2022, but he reached a new high with a 75-yard touchdown run against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/cleveland-browns\/329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Browns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Browns<\/a> in 2024. He&#8217;s remained a crucial piece of the New Orleans offense whether he&#8217;s been listed as a quarterback or tight end, and we&#8217;re hoping we haven&#8217;t already seen the last of him as he rehabs a serious knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Saints Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/saintswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/saints\/2025\/07\/09\/taysom-hill-saints-highlights-touchdown-run-seahawks-news\/84490287007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Taysom Hill&#039;s game-breaking 60-yard TD is the Saints Play of the Day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Taysom Hill&#8217;s game-breaking 60-yard TD is the Saints Play of the Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our countdown to the New Orleans Saints&#8216; 2025 season opener is on Day 60, which means we have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[254,54,13189,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,27089,397,261,23119,7762,494],"class_list":{"0":"post-193612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-cleveland-browns","10":"tag-drew-brees","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints","14":"tag-neworleans","15":"tag-neworleanssaints","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-play-of-the-day","18":"tag-saints","19":"tag-seattle-seahawks","20":"tag-tariq-woolen","21":"tag-taysom-hill","22":"tag-the-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114823520180771881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}