Foster Moreau

7 seasons, 2 teams — and a 5-TD rookie year that's still tied for his career best.

Moreau came into the league as a 4th-round pick (2019, Raiders) behind Darren Waller. He scored 5 TDs on just 21 catches as a rookie — a 23.8% TD rate on receptions that's outrageously high.

He matched that 5-TD line in 2024 with the Saints, but it took 32 catches that time (a 15.6% TD rate). His career best in yardage came in 2022 (420 yards) as the Raiders' TE2.

2025 has been a thin role: 7 games, 7 catches, 59 yards — clearly TE3 behind Juwan Johnson.

Why it matters. The dual 5-TD peaks — separated by a lymphoma diagnosis — define the arc of an NFL career that had no business being as long or as productive as it's been for a 4th-round backup.

5 TDs on 21 rookie-year catches — a 23.8% TD rate that led all TEs in 2019.

As a rookie in 2019, Moreau caught 21 passes and scored 5 receiving TDs. That's a TD every 4.2 catches — the highest TD-per-reception rate among TEs with 20+ receptions in 2019.

The only TE close to him that year: Darren Fells (7 TDs on 34 catches, 20.6%) and Taysom Hill in a hybrid role (6 TDs on 19 catches). Moreau's 23.8% beat both on pure efficiency.

He's never replicated that TD rate — his 2024 came on 50%+ more volume to get the same 5 scores.

Why it matters. Red-zone efficiency at that rate as a rookie, behind Darren Waller in the target queue, shows the Raiders specifically deployed Moreau as a goal-line specialist from Day 1 — a role he's held at two franchises.

5 TDs in 2024 — career-tying high in his Saints comeback season after cancer.

Moreau publicly disclosed a Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis in March 2023 during his Saints physical, then went into remission and returned to play that fall. His 2024 season (32 catches, 413 yards, 5 TDs) was the comeback story — career-tying TDs and second-best receiving yardage of his career.

The 5 TDs made him the Saints' leading TE scorer in 2024, ahead of Juwan Johnson (3 TDs on 50 catches) — a reversal of their typical roles.

Why it matters. Moreau's 2024 wasn't just a good TE2 season — it was the punctuation on a comeback from Hodgkin lymphoma, and he led all Saints TEs in receiving TDs that year.

18 career TD games in 84 games — with 10 of them bunched in just two seasons.

Moreau has scored in 18 different games across 84 career contests — a TD-game rate of 21.4%. But the distribution is extreme: 5 TD games came in his 11-game rookie season (2019), and 5 more came in 2024 — leaving the remaining 8 spread across 4 seasons.

He has zero TDs through 7 games in 2025. The pattern: his TD production is bunched in run-heavy offenses with red-zone TE usage (rookie Gruden Raiders, 2024 Saints under Klint Kubiak), and dries up when he's slotted as a pure TE2/3 blocker.

Why it matters. Moreau's TD production isn't spread evenly — it spikes when offenses give him red-zone TE sets and vanishes when he's a pure blocker, which explains why his raw stats consistently undersell his actual value.

48.5% red-zone TD rate since 2019 — best among all TEs with 25+ red-zone targets.

Since 2019, Moreau has seen 33 red-zone targets and converted 16 of them into touchdowns — a 48.5% TD rate that leads all TEs with 25+ red-zone looks in that window.

For context, Mark Andrews — one of the most efficient red-zone TEs of this era — converts 37.9%. Gronkowski's final seasons came in at 34.5%. Moreau's rate is 10 full percentage points better than Andrews.

This is the entire reason two different franchises have kept him active for 7 seasons despite never being a featured target.

Why it matters. Moreau converts nearly half his red-zone targets into touchdowns, a rate that beats Mark Andrews (37.9%), Gronkowski's final seasons (34.5%), and every other volume TE in the same window — the definition of a specialist worth keeping on the roster.

67-yard game vs Denver — and that's still his career single-game receiving high.

Moreau has never had a 70-yard receiving game in 84 NFL games. His career-high is 67 yards (2021 Week 16 vs Denver).

That ceiling tells the whole story: he's a complementary TE, not a featured target. The 18 career TDs against zero 70-yard games is the cleanest possible summary of his role — touchdowns yes, volume no.

Why it matters. The 67-yard career ceiling — paired with 18 career TDs — is the clearest possible proof that Moreau exists entirely as a red-zone specialist: touchdowns yes, volume absolutely not.