NFL: Former Saints WR Horn Signs With Atlanta

When he suits up for the Falcons in 2007, Horn will become one of almost 70 players to play for both Atlanta and New Orleans in their career.

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ATLANTA - Former Saints WR Joe Horn signed Thursday with the Atlanta Falcons.

Horn (6-1, 213 pounds) will enter his 12th NFL season in 2007 with 576 career receptions for 8,501 yards and 57 touchdowns in 151 games (102 starts).

Horn owns several receiving records for New Orleans, including season touchdown catches (11 in 2004), receptions in a season (94 in 2000 and 2004), and yards in a season (1,399 in 2004) and 50 career TDs. He posted 27 100-yard receiving games and seven back-to-back century games with the Saints.

He was voted to the NFC's Pro Bowl team in 2000, 2001, 2002 (starter) and 2004.

Since the start of the 2000 season, Horn is fifth among all NFL wide receivers with 7,622 yards, ninth with 523 receptions, sixth with 50 TD receptions, sixth in yards per game (74.7), tied for sixth in first down receptions (377) and seventh in number of 25 yard-plus pass receptions (63).

One of the major nemesis of the Falcons over the last seven seasons, Horn posted 67 receptions for 1,070 yards, five touchdowns, 50 first-down catches and 10 receptions of 25 or more yards and five 100-yard efforts in 14 career games vs. Atlanta.

When he suits up for the Falcons in 2007, Horn will become one of almost 70 players to play for both Atlanta and New Orleans in their career. His career totals vs. the Falcons are second among active players (Issac Bruce has 71 catches for 1,283 yards and 10 TDs in 16 games to date against Atlanta).

Horn was slowed by a groin injury over the second half of last season, but still ranked third on the Saints with 37 catches for 679 yards and four touchdowns in 10 games with nine starts. He had his longest career TD vs. Cincinnati on Nov. 19th as he hauled in a 72-yard pass

Originally drafted by Kansas City in the fifth round (135th overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft, Horn spent four seasons with the Chiefs before he signed with New Orleans as an unrestricted free agent in 2000.

He played junior college football at Itawamba (Miss.) Community College in 1991-92, spent the 1993 season out of football washing dishes and working in a furniture factory to support his family before getting into the professional ranks in the CFL in 1994.

He played two seasons with the Memphis Mad Dogs before he was drafted by the Chiefs, where he had 53 total receptions in four seasons in Kansas City.

A native of New Haven, Conn., Horn was a standout wide receiver, running back and defensive back at Douglas Byrd (Fayetteville, N.C.) High School, where he also ran track and played basketball.

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