1997 Minnesota Vikings Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Minnesota Vikings

9-7-0

4th in NFC Central

Scored 22.1 PPG (11th)

Allowed 22.4 PPG (19th)

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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	354	5,354	1,022	5.2	2,041	449	4.5	3,537	540	6.6	33	224	293	96	177	20	97	800
Team Rank		11th	8th	16th	8th	6th	15th	3rd	16th	12th	18th	9th	22nd	16th	17th	9th	24th	11th	11th
Opponent	16	359	5,687	1,028	5.5	1,983	442	4.5	3,957	542	7.3	44	253	325	104	195	26	81	668
Opponent Rank		19th	29th	17th	30th	23rd	13th	28th	27th	19th	28th	10th	12th	28th	19th	28th	20th	30th	30th
Net		-5	-333	-6	-0.3	+58	+7	+0.1	-420	-2	-0.8	-11	-29	-32	-8	-18	-6	+16	+132
Net Rank		16th	21st	15th	21st	10th	12th	12th	25th	14th	26th	7th	16th	24th	18th	23rd	23rd	25th	25th

1997 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Brad Johnson	13	275	452	60.8	34.8	3,036	6.7	233.5	20	4.4	12	2.7	56	26	164	84.5
	Randall Cunningham	6	44	88	50.0	14.7	501	5.7	83.5	6	6.8	4	4.5	34	7	60	71.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Robert Smith	14	232	16.6	1,266	5.5	90.4	6	78	269	1,463
	Leroy Hoard	12	80	6.7	235	2.9	19.6	4	20	91	319
	Chuck Evans	16	43	2.7	157	3.7	9.8	2	13	64	309
	Brad Johnson	13	35	2.7	139	4.0	10.7	0	28	36	142
	Moe Williams	14	22	1.6	59	2.7	4.2	1	8	26	73
	Randall Cunningham	6	19	3.2	127	6.7	21.2	0	28	19	127
	David Palmer	16	11	0.7	36	3.3	2.3	1	10	37	229
	Robert Green	3	6	2	22	3.7	7.3	0	8	7	27
	Mitch Berger	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Cris Carter	16	89		5.6	1,069	12.0	66.8	13	43	89	1,069
	Jake Reed	16	68		4.3	1,138	16.7	71.1	6	56	68	1,138
	Robert Smith	14	37		2.6	197	5.3	14.1	1	20	269	1,463
	Andrew Glover	13	32		2.5	378	11.8	29.1	3	43	32	378
	David Palmer	16	26		1.6	193	7.4	12.1	1	23	37	229
	Chuck Evans	16	21		1.3	152	7.2	9.5	0	17	64	309
	Chris Walsh	14	11		0.8	114	10.4	8.1	1	19	11	114
	Leroy Hoard	12	11		0.9	84	7.6	7.0	0	30	91	319
	Greg DeLong	16	8		0.5	75	9.4	4.7	0	23	8	75
	Hunter Goodwin	16	7		0.4	61	8.7	3.8	0	14	7	61
	Moe Williams	14	4		0.3	14	3.5	1.0	0	7	26	73
	Matt Hatchette	16	3		0.2	54	18.0	3.4	0	38	3	54
	Robert Green	3	1		0.3	5	5.0	1.7	0	5	7	27
	Brad Johnson	13	1		0.1	3	3.0	0.2	1	3	36	142

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	John Randle	16					15.5		0	0		0
	Duane Clemons	13					7.0		0	0		0
	Dwayne Rudd	16					5.0		0	0		0
	Derrick Alexander	14					4.5		0	0		0
	Fernando Smith	12					4.0		0	0		0
	Jason Fisk	16					3.0		1	1	1	0	1
	Leonard Wheeler	15					2.0		0	0		0
	Ed McDaniel	16					1.5		1	18	18	0	18
	Dixon Edwards	16					1.5		0	0		0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Cris Carter	16	0	13	0	13	0	0	3	0	84
	Eddie Murray	12	0	0	0	0	12	23	0	0	59
	Robert Smith	14	6	1	0	7	0	0	0	0	42
	Jake Reed	16	0	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	36
	Greg Davis	4	0	0	0	0	7	10	0	0	31
	Leroy Hoard	12	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	24
	Andrew Glover	13	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Chuck Evans	16	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	14
	David Palmer	16	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Brad Johnson	13	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	10
	Jeff Brady	15	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Orlando Thomas	15	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Chris Walsh	14	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Moe Williams	14	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	David Palmer	16	32	444	13.1	0	57	34
	Moe Williams	14	16	0		0		0
	Robert Tate	4	10	0		0		0
	Harold Morrow	16	5	0		0		0
	Ron George	16	1	0		0		0
	Chris Walsh	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
	Eddie Murray	12	12	17	70.6	0-0	7-7	1-3	4-6	0-1	23	24	95.8	59
	Greg Davis	4	7	10	70.0	0-0	4-5	2-2	1-3	0-0	10	10	100.0	31

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Mitch Berger	14	73	3,133	42.9	65	0
	Randall Cunningham	6	8	274	34.3	65	0