Capacity in the Caesars Superdome for New Orleans Saints games lists at roughly 70,000 but for Sunday's regular-season opener against Arizona, it easily will accommodate about 6,500 Moore.

The latter is the number of residents in Prosser, Wash., in 2024, the most recent tally. And every one of them will be carried into the game neatly packaged inside native son Kellen Moore , the Saints' first-year head coach.

"The townspeople, we're all kind of living vicariously through Kellen," said Mark Little, who coached running backs under Moore's father, Tom Moore, at Prosser High during Tom Moore's storied tenure (1986-2008), including Kellen's prep career (a four-year run that concluded in 2007).

"Everybody is super excited for him."

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