1997 New Orleans Saints

1997 New Orleans Saints Statistics

Passing
Player	Att	Cmp	Pct	Yds	Avg	Lg	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Sack	Loss	Rating
Heath Shuler	203	106	52.2	1288	6.34	89t	2	1.0	14	6.9	21	132	46.6
Billy Joe Hobert	131	61	46.6	891	6.80	49	6	4.6	8	6.1	4	29	59.0
Danny Wuerffel	91	42	46.2	518	5.69	47	4	4.4	8	8.8	18	116	42.3
Doug Nussmeier	32	18	56.3	183	5.72	24	0	0.0	3	9.4	6	32	33.7
Mario Bates	1	1	100.0	21	21.00	21t	1	100.0	0	0.0	0	0	158.3
Randal Hill	0	0	0.0	0	0.00	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	8	0.0
TOTALS	458	228	49.8	2901	6.33	89t	13	2.8	33	7.2	0	0	49.4

Receiving Player Rec Yds Avg TD Lg Randal Hill 55 761 13.8 2 89t Andre Hastings 48 722 15.0 5 39 Ray Zellars 31 263 8.5 0 38 Eric Guliford 27 362 13.4 1 47 John Farquhar 17 253 14.9 1 42 Irv Smith 17 180 10.6 1 25 Troy Davis 13 85 6.5 0 18 Mario Bates 5 42 8.4 0 15 Keith Poole 4 98 24.5 2 49 Fred McCrary 4 17 4.3 0 11 Brett Bech 3 50 16.7 0 22 Daryl Hobbs 2 41 20.5 1 21 Nicky Savoie 1 14 14.0 0 14 Tony Johnson 1 13 13.0 0 13 TOTALS 228 2901 12.7 13 89t

Rushing Player Att Yds Avg TD Lg Ray Zellars 156 552 3.5 4 27 Mario Bates 119 440 3.7 4 74t Troy Davis 75 271 3.6 0 20 Heath Shuler 22 38 1.7 1 8 Billy Joe Hobert 12 36 3.0 0 15 Andre Hastings 4 35 8.8 0 27 Doug Nussmeier 8 30 3.8 0 15 Danny Wuerffel 6 26 4.3 0 10 Fred McCrary 8 15 1.9 0 8 Randal Hill 1 11 11.0 0 11 Wes Bender 5 9 1.8 0 6 Eric Guliford 1 -2 -2.0 0 -2 TOTALS 417 1461 3.5 9 74t

Kickoff Returns Player Att Yds Avg TD Lg Eric Guliford 43 1128 26.2 1 102t Troy Davis 9 173 19.2 0 29 Brett Bech 3 47 15.7 0 30 Fred McCrary 2 26 13.0 0 15 Jared Tomich 1 0 0.0 0 0 TOTALS 58 1374 23.7 1 102t

Punt Returns Player Att Yds Avg FC TD Lg Eric Guliford 47 498 10.6 26 0 32 Andre Hastings 1 -2 -2.0 0 0 -2 TOTALS 48 496 10.3 26 0 32

Punting
Player	Punts	Yds	Avg	Lg	TB	In20	Blk	Ret	Yds	Net
Mark Royals	88	4038	45.9	66	13	21	0	50	706	34.9
TOTALS	88	4038	45.9	66	13	21	0	50	706	34.9

Kicking
Player	0-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	All	Lg	PAT	Pts
Doug Brien	1/1	2/2	10/10	6/9	4/5	23/27	53	22/22	91
TOTALS	1/1	2/2	10/10	6/9	4/5	23/27	53	22/22	91

Defense
Player	Sacks	Loss	Ints	Yds	Avg	TDs	Lg
Eric Allen	0.0	0.0	2	27	13.5	0	27
Ernest Dixon	0.5	4.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Mark Fields	8.0	77.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
La'Roi Glover	6.5	33.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Richard Harvey	3.0	11.0	1	7	7.0	0	7
Joe Johnson	8.5	68.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Rob Kelly	0.0	0.0	1	15	15.0	0	15
Sammy Knight	0.0	0.0	5	75	15.0	0	39
Wayne Martin	10.5	60.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Darren Mickell	3.5	24.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Keith Mitchell	4.0	23.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Alex Molden	4.0	36.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Anthony Newman	0.0	0.0	3	19	6.3	0	17
Pio Sagapolutele	2.0	10.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Brady Smith	5.0	35.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Jared Tomich	1.0	7.0	0	0	0.0	0	0
Winfred Tubbs	2.5	20.0	2	21	10.5	0	15
Mickey Washington	0.0	0.0	2	30	15.0	0	30
TOTALS	59.0	408.0	16	194	12.1	0	39

Saints' Karney feels for lost teammate McAllister
Biloxi Sun Herald | December 04, 2008
New Orleans Saints fullback Mike Karney openly shed tears for his buddy Deuce McAllister when McAllister tore the ACL in his left knee last season.

Orgeron says Tigers, Vols, have not contacted him
Biloxi Sun Herald | December 04, 2008
Former Ole Miss head coach and current New Orleans Saints defensive line coach Ed Orgeron has been linked to a possible return to college football, with LSU and Tennessee being among the schools that may have interest in his services as an assistant coach.

Falcons, NFC South boast NFL's best home record
Biloxi Sun Herald | December 04, 2008
And beating up on some of the league's worst teams.