1997 New Orleans Saints Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New Orleans Saints

6-10-0

4th in NFC West

Scored 14.8 PPG (30th)

Allowed 20.4 PPG (16th)

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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	237	4,045	925	4.4	1,461	417	3.5	2,901	458	6.3	50	317	229	78	127	24	101	811
Team Rank		30th	30th	29th	30th	27th	25th	26th	27th	27th	23rd	24th	9th	30th	27th	29th	13th	14th	12th
Opponent	16	327	4,645	1,073	4.3	1,764	496	3.6	3,289	518	6.3	59	408	280	95	168	17	110	895
Opponent Rank		16th	4th	26th	2nd	14th	24th	4th	9th	14th	7th	1st	30th	8th	11th	16th	4th	10th	10th
Net		-90	-600	-148	+0.0	-303	-79	-0.1	-388	-60	0.0	-9	-91	-51	-17	-41	+7	-9	-84
Net Rank		25th	27th	29th	15th	23rd	27th	19th	24th	24th	14th	9th	25th	27th	21st	28th	7th	9th	10th

1997 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Heath Shuler	10	106	203	52.2	20.3	1,288	6.3	128.8	2	1.0	14	6.9	89	21	132	46.6
	Billy Joe Hobert	5	61	131	46.6	26.2	891	6.8	178.2	6	4.6	8	6.1	49	4	29	59.0
	Danny Wuerffel	7	42	91	46.2	13	518	5.7	74.0	4	4.4	8	8.8	47	18	116	42.3
	Doug Nussmeier	3	18	32	56.3	10.7	183	5.7	61.0	0	0.0	3	9.4	24	6	32	33.7
	Mario Bates	12	1	1	100.0	0.1	21	21.0	1.8	1	100.0	0	0.0	21	0	0	158.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ray Zellars	16	156	9.8	552	3.5	34.5	4	27	187	815
	Mario Bates	12	119	9.9	440	3.7	36.7	4	74	124	482
	Troy Davis	16	75	4.7	271	3.6	16.9	0	20	88	356
	Heath Shuler	10	22	2.2	38	1.7	3.8	1	8	22	38
	Billy Joe Hobert	5	12	2.4	36	3.0	7.2	0	15	12	36
	Doug Nussmeier	3	8	2.7	30	3.8	10.0	0	15	8	30
	Fred McCrary	7	8	1.1	15	1.9	2.1	0	8	12	32
	Danny Wuerffel	7	6	0.9	26	4.3	3.7	0	10	6	26
	Wes Bender	11	5	0.5	9	1.8	0.8	0	6	5	9
	Andre Hastings	16	4	0.3	35	8.8	2.2	0	27	52	757
	Randal Hill	15	1	0.1	11	11.0	0.7	0	11	56	772
	Eric Guliford	16	1	0.1	-2	-2.0	-0.1	0	-2	28	360

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Randal Hill	15	55		3.7	761	13.8	50.7	2	89	56	772
	Andre Hastings	16	48		3	722	15.0	45.1	5	39	52	757
	Ray Zellars	16	31		1.9	263	8.5	16.4	0	38	187	815
	Eric Guliford	16	27		1.7	362	13.4	22.6	1	47	28	360
	John Farquhar	11	17		1.5	253	14.9	23.0	1	42	17	253
	Irv Smith	11	17		1.5	180	10.6	16.4	1	25	17	180
	Troy Davis	16	13		0.8	85	6.5	5.3	0	18	88	356
	Mario Bates	12	5		0.4	42	8.4	3.5	0	15	124	482
	Keith Poole	3	4		1.3	98	24.5	32.7	2	49	4	98
	Fred McCrary	7	4		0.6	17	4.3	2.4	0	11	12	32
	Brett Bech	10	3		0.3	50	16.7	5.0	0	22	3	50
	Daryl Hobbs	4	2		0.5	41	20.5	10.3	1	21	2	41
	Nicky Savoie	1	1		1	14	14.0	14.0	0	14	1	14
	Tony Johnson	7	1		0.1	13	13.0	1.9	0	13	1	13

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Wayne Martin	16					10.5		0	0		0
	Joe Johnson	16					8.5		0	0		0
	Mark Fields	16					8.0		0	0		0
	La'Roi Glover	15					6.5		0	0		0
	Brady Smith	16					5.0		0	0		0
	Keith Mitchell	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Alex Molden	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Darren Mickell	14					3.5		0	0		0
	Richard Harvey	14					3.0		1	7	7	0	7
	Winfred Tubbs	16					2.5		2	21	10.5	0	15
	Pio Sagapolutele	14					2.0		0	0		0
	Jared Tomich	16					1.0		0	0		0
	Ernest Dixon	15					0.5		0	0		0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Doug Brien	16	0	0	0	0	23	22	0	0	91
	Andre Hastings	16	0	5	0	5	0	0	1	0	32
	Mario Bates	12	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	24
	Ray Zellars	16	4	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	24
	Eric Guliford	16	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Randal Hill	15	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Keith Poole	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	John Farquhar	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Mark Fields	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Daryl Hobbs	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Heath Shuler	10	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Irv Smith	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Eric Guliford	16	43	498	10.6	0	32	47
	Troy Davis	16	9	0		0		0
	Brett Bech	10	3	0		0		0
	Fred McCrary	7	2	0		0		0
	Jared Tomich	16	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
	Doug Brien	16	23	27	85.2	1-1	2-2	10-10	6-9	4-5	22	22	100.0	91

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Mark Royals	16	88	4,038	45.9	66	0