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A prolific striker, Graham spent five years at Greenock Morton after joining the club from Hillington. Whilst at Morton he spent a season on loan at East Stirlingshire in the Third Division. He then played for Raith Rovers, moving from there to Dundee United in 2013. After spending most of the 2014–15 season on loan to St Johnstone, he joined Ross County in June 2015, signed for Hibernian in August 2016 – helping them win the 2016–17 Scottish Championship – then moved to English club Cheltenham Town in August 2017. Graham returned to Ross County in August 2018 and subsequently joined Partick Thistle on a two-and-a-half year deal in January 2020, going on to become team captain and one of the club's most prolific goal-scorers of all-time.

He scored on his debut in a 2–1 defeat away to Arbroath, but it would count for little. Scottish football was stopped in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at which time Thistle were in last place in the Championship (two points behind 9th place Queen of the South, although Thistle had a game in hand). A vote was subsequently taken to curtail the Championship, League One and League Two seasons, which meant that Thistle were relegated to League One. Graham remained at the club ahead of the 2020–21 season in League One. After winning the division and finishing as the club's top scorer with 11 goals, he signed a new contract adding an extra year to his deal, extending it until 2023. After finishing the 2021–22 season with 17 goals, he signed a further one year extension to his contract in summer 2022, with his deal extended to the end of the 2023–24 season. The following season he scored 22 goals in all competitions, becoming the first Thistle striker to hit 20 goals since Mark Roberts in 2005-06. Graham was part of the squad that reached the Scottish Premiership promotion play off final. Following this he added an extra year to his deal until summer 2025.

After another successful start to the 2023–24 season Graham once again extended his Thistle contract, adding an additional year until summer 2026. In the 2023–24 season Graham won the PFA Scottish Championship player of the year, after finishing top scorer in the division with 20 goals. He ended the 2023–24 season on 26 goals in all competitions, the second highest return of his career in a single season. 2024-25 proved to be his final season, and it was eventful in many ways. Following the departure of Kris Doolan in February 2025, Graham and Thistle youth coach Mark Wilson took over as co-interim managers of the Partick Thistle men's team. At this point, he was managing the women's team, co-managing the men's team, as well as playing and captaining the side. This didn't seem to phase him on the pitch as he finished the regular league season with 15 goals, finishing as the Division's top scorer for the second consecutive season. With that, he also became the first Jag in history to finish as our top league scorer in 5 successive seasons, a truly magnificent achievement.

In May 2025, Graham scored his last two goals for Partick Thistle in a 2–0 away win against Ayr United in the Scottish Premiership play-offs quarter finals, sending the club into the semi final. It was famously celebrated that he reached 100 goals in all competitions that night, but that was not the case in reality, the opening - and blatant - own goal at Inverness on 9 February 2022 having been credited to him in error. What he did do at Somerset Park that night was to become just the 3rd Jag in history to hit 20 competitive goals in three successive seasons (John Wallace & Ma Ba' McKennan did it way back in the 1930s), another excellent achievement. Despite being offered the manager's position in May 2025, Graham turned it down, despite his earlier statements saying that he wanted the job. The following month, with one year left on his playing contract at Firhill, the 37-year-old signed for Premiership Falkirk on a one-year deal with the option to extend for a further year.

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