1997 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

9-7-0

3rd in NFC Central

Scored 23.7 PPG (4th)

Allowed 19.1 PPG (10th)

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1997 Regular Season Team Stats

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	SCK	SCKY	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	16	379	5,798	1,028	5.6	2,464	447	5.5	3,605	540	6.7	41	271	304	120	166	18	94	866
Team Rank		4th	2nd	12th	1st	2nd	16th	1st	11th	12th	16th	16th	15th	11th	5th	21st	26th	8th	16th
Opponent	16	306	4,947	1,021	4.8	1,833	471	3.9	3,401	507	6.7	43	287	268	98	152	18	112	841
Opponent Rank		10th	14th	13th	11th	18th	20th	14th	13th	10th	15th	13th	17th	5th	16th	6th	6th	9th	15th
Net		+73	+851	+7	+0.8	+631	-24	+1.6	+204	+33	0.0	-2	-16	+36	+22	+14	0	-18	+25
Net Rank		7th	4th	12th	3rd	3rd	17th	1st	11th	11th	15th	17th	15th	8th	7th	11th	14th	3rd	19th

1997 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Scott Mitchell	16	293	509	57.6	31.8	3,484	6.8	217.8	19	3.7	14	2.8	79	41	271	79.6
	Frank Reich	6	11	30	36.7	5	121	4.0	20.2	0	0.0	2	6.7	27	0	0	21.7
	Matt Blundin	1	0	1	0.0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100.0		0	0	0.0

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Barry Sanders	16	335	20.9	2,053	6.1	128.3	11	82	368	2,358
	Scott Mitchell	16	37	2.3	83	2.2	5.2	1	13	37	83
	Tommy Vardell	16	32	2	122	3.8	7.6	6	41	48	340
	Ron Rivers	16	29	1.8	166	5.7	10.4	1	31	29	166
	Cory Schlesinger	16	7	0.4	11	1.6	0.7	0	4	12	80
	Frank Reich	6	4	0.7	-4	-1.0	-0.7	0	-1	4	-4
	Johnnie Morton	16	3	0.2	33	11.0	2.1	0	20	83	1,090

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Herman Moore	16	104		6.5	1,293	12.4	80.8	8	79	104	1,293
	Johnnie Morton	16	80		5	1,057	13.2	66.1	6	73	83	1,090
	Barry Sanders	16	33		2.1	305	9.2	19.1	3	66	368	2,358
	David Sloan	14	29		2.1	264	9.1	18.9	0	25	29	264
	Pete Metzelaars	16	17		1.1	144	8.5	9.0	0	22	17	144
	Tommy Vardell	16	16		1	218	13.6	13.6	0	37	48	340
	Tommie Boyd	16	10		0.6	142	14.2	8.9	0	32	10	142
	Glyn Milburn	16	5		0.3	77	15.4	4.8	0	43	5	77
	Cory Schlesinger	16	5		0.3	69	13.8	4.3	1	33	12	80
	Pete Chryplewicz	10	3		0.3	27	9.0	2.7	1	12	3	27
	Kez McCorvey	7	2		0.3	9	4.5	1.3	0	6	2	9

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Robert Porcher	16					12.5		1	5	5	0	5
	Luther Elliss	16					8.5		0	0		0
	Tracy Scroggins	15					7.5		0	0		0
	Reggie Brown	16					2.5		2	83	41.5	2	45
	Kevin Abrams	15					2.0		1	29	29	0	29
	Robert Bailey	15					2.0		1	0	0	0	0
	Antonio London	16					2.0		0	0		0
	Ron Rice	12					1.0		1	18	18	0	18
	Greg Jeffries	15					1.0		1	0	0	0	0
	Shane Bonham	16					1.0		0	0		0
	George Jamison	16					1.0		0	0		0
	Kerwin Waldroup	11					1.0		0	0		0
	Mike Wells	16					1.0		0	0		0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Jason Hanson	16	0	0	0	0	26	39	0	0	117
	Barry Sanders	16	11	3	0	14	0	0	0	0	84
	Herman Moore	16	0	8	0	8	0	0	1	0	50
	Johnnie Morton	16	0	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	36
	Tommy Vardell	16	6	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	36
	Reggie Brown	16	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Tracy Scroggins	15	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	8
	Stephen Boyd	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Pete Chryplewicz	10	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Scott Mitchell	16	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Ron Rivers	16	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Cory Schlesinger	16	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Bryant Westbrook	15	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Glyn Milburn	16	55	433	9.2	0	40	47
	Ron Rivers	16	2	0		0		0
	Tommy Vardell	16	1	0		0		0
	Matt Russell	14	1	0		0		0

Kicking

		GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Jason Hanson	16	26	29	89.7	0-0	10-10	8-9	5-5	3-5	39	40	97.5	117

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	John Jett	16	84	3,576	42.6	60	2