1997 Tennessee Oilers Statistics
Team Record: 8-8
Finishing 3rd in the NFL's Central Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Jeff Fisher (8-8)
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
1997 Tennessee Oilers Results
The Tennessee Oilers of the National Football League ended the 1997 season with a record of 8 wins and 8 losses, finishing third in the NFL's Central Division of the American Football Conference.
Tennessee scored 333 points, while the defense allowed 310. Eddie George ran for a team-leading 1,399 yards for the Oilers.
Steve McNair passed for 2,665 yards. Frank Wycheck topped pass catchers, snagging 63 passes for 748 yards. Willie Davis was targeted regularly, too.
The ball-hawking defense manufactured 32 turnovers. Marcus Robertson and Darryll Lewis each intercepted 5 errant tosses from the opposition. Gary Walker and Kenny Holmes each dropped opposing passers 7 times.
Jeff Fisher coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Steve McNair | 415 | 216 | 52.0 | 2665 | 6.4 | 14 | 3.4 | 13 | 3.1 | 55 | 31 | 190 | 70.4 |
Willie Davis | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 22 | 22.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 158.3 |
James Ritchey | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 15 | 7.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 97.9 |
Dave Krieg | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 2 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 56.3 |
Totals | 420 | 220 | 52.4 | 2704 | 6.4 | 15 | 3.6 | 13 | 3.1 | 55 | 32 | 199 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eddie George | 357 | 1399 | 3.9 | 30 | 6 |
Steve McNair | 101 | 674 | 6.7 | 47 | 8 |
Rodney Thomas | 67 | 310 | 4.6 | 25 | 3 |
Ronnie Harmon | 8 | 30 | 3.8 | 14 | 0 |
Reggie Roby | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 |
James Ritchey | 1 | 6 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 |
Dave Krieg | 4 | -2 | -0.5 | 0 | 0 |
Derrick Mason | 1 | -7 | -7.0 | -7 | 0 |
Chris Sanders | 1 | -8 | -8.0 | -8 | 0 |
Totals | 541 | 2414 | 4.5 | 47 | 17 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Wycheck | 63 | 748 | 11.9 | 42 | 4 |
Willie Davis | 43 | 564 | 13.1 | 46 | 4 |
Chris Sanders | 31 | 498 | 16.1 | 55 | 3 |
Ronnie Harmon | 16 | 189 | 11.8 | 27 | 0 |
Derrick Mason | 14 | 186 | 13.3 | 38 | 0 |
Rodney Thomas | 14 | 111 | 7.9 | 22 | 0 |
Michael Roan | 12 | 159 | 13.2 | 26 | 0 |
Derek Russell | 12 | 141 | 11.8 | 23 | 1 |
Eddie George | 7 | 44 | 6.3 | 15 | 1 |
Joey Kent | 6 | 55 | 9.2 | 19 | 1 |
Roderick Lewis | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Erik Norgard | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 1 |
Totals | 220 | 2704 | 12.3 | 55 | 15 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Al Del Greco | 32 | 32 | 100.0 | 35 | 27 | 77.1 | 113 |
Totals | 32 | 32 | 100.0 | 35 | 27 | 77.1 | 113 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Reggie Roby | 73 | 3049 | 41.8 | 59 |
Al Del Greco | 1 | 32 | 32.0 | 32 |
Totals | 74 | 3081 | 41.6 | 59 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mel Gray | 17 | 144 | 8.5 | 30 | 0 |
Derrick Mason | 13 | 95 | 7.3 | 29 | 0 |
Mike Archie | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Marcus Robertson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 32 | 244 | 7.6 | 30 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Derrick Mason | 26 | 551 | 21.2 | 54 | 0 |
Rodney Thomas | 17 | 346 | 20.4 | 33 | 0 |
Mel Gray | 8 | 185 | 23.1 | 33 | 0 |
Mike Archie | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 15 | 0 |
Michael Roan | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 12 | 0 |
Ronnie Harmon | 1 | 16 | 16.0 | 16 | 0 |
Jason Layman | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Frank Wycheck | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 58 | 1150 | 19.8 | 54 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marcus Robertson | 5 | 127 | 25.4 | 48 | 0 |
Darryll Lewis | 5 | 115 | 23.0 | 47 | 1 |
Denard Walker | 2 | 53 | 26.5 | 39 | 1 |
Roger Jones | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 24 | 0 |
Joe Bowden | 1 | 9 | 9.0 | 9 | 0 |
Totals | 14 | 328 | 23.4 | 48 | 2 |
Sacks:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
Gary Walker | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Kenny Holmes | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Henry Ford | 5.0 | 0.0 | |
Joe Bowden | 2.5 | 0.0 | |
Pratt Lyons | 2.5 | 0.0 | |
Lemanski Hall | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Josh Evans | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
James Roberson | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Blaine Bishop | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
Steve Jackson | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Lenoy Jones | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Lonnie Marts | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Rayna Stewart | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
Totals | 35.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blaine Bishop | 74 | 67 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Barron Wortham | 79 | 61 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Denard Walker | 62 | 56 | 12 | 0 | |||||
Joe Bowden | 68.5 | 53 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Darryll Lewis | 53.5 | 48 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 68 | 1 | |
Marcus Robertson | 53 | 44 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 67 | 2 | 0 |
Lonnie Marts | 44.5 | 39 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Henry Ford | 44 | 38 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
Steve Jackson | 37.5 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Gary Walker | 37.5 | 31 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Kenny Holmes | 30.5 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Rayna Stewart | 29 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Anthony Cook | 29 | 25 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Lenoy Jones | 24.5 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
James Roberson | 20.5 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pratt Lyons | 16 | 12 | 8 | ||||||
Tomur Barnes | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Rafael Robinson | 7.5 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
Lemanski Hall | 7 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
Anthony Dorsett | 6.5 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
George McCullough | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Roger Jones | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Terry Killens | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Steve McNair | 16 | 7 | -2 | 0 | |||||
Bruce Matthews | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Erik Norgard | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Josh Evans | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Mike Archie | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Mark Stepnoski | 2 | 1 | -7 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Frank Wycheck | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Brad Hopkins | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Derrick Mason | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Chris Sanders | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Rodney Thomas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Mel Gray | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Eddie George | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 742 | 635 | 214 | 0 | 31 | 32 | 139 | 2 | 14 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Al Del Greco | 27 | 32 | 0 | 113 | ||||||||||
Steve McNair | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | |||||||||
Eddie George | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 44 | |||||||
Frank Wycheck | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26 | |||||||
Willie Davis | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |||||||||
Chris Sanders | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
Rodney Thomas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Marcus Robertson | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Derek Russell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Erik Norgard | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Denard Walker | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Darryll Lewis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Joey Kent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Totals | 17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 333 |