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1996 Minnesota Vikings Statistics
Team Record: 9-7
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's Central Division of the National Football Conference
Postseason: 0-1 Lost Wild Card
Coach: Dennis Green (9-7)
Location: Bloomington, Minnesota
1996 Minnesota Vikings Results
The Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League ended the 1996 season with a record of 9 wins and 7 losses, finishing second in the NFL's Central Division of the National Football Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 0-1.
The Vikings netted 298 points, but the defense yielded 315. Brad Johnson threw for 2,258 yards, and Warren Moon played quarterback, too. Cris Carter snagged 96 passes, while Jake Reed accumulated 1,320 receiving yards.
Robert Smith carried the ball for a team-best 692 yards for Minnesota.
Orlando Thomas intercepted 5 opponent throws. John Randle topped pass rushers with 11.5 quarterback sacks, part of an overall team total of 43 sacks.
Dennis Green coached the team. The 1996 Minnesota Vikings lost in the Wild Card.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brad Johnson | 311 | 195 | 62.7 | 2258 | 7.3 | 17 | 5.5 | 10 | 3.2 | 82 | 15 | 119 | 89.4 |
Warren Moon | 247 | 134 | 54.3 | 1610 | 6.5 | 7 | 2.8 | 9 | 3.6 | 54 | 19 | 122 | 68.7 |
Jay Walker | 2 | 2 | 100.0 | 31 | 15.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 118.8 |
Chris Walsh | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Totals | 561 | 331 | 59.0 | 3899 | 7.0 | 24 | 4.3 | 19 | 3.4 | 82 | 34 | 241 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Smith | 162 | 692 | 4.3 | 57 | 3 |
Leroy Hoard | 105 | 420 | 4.0 | 25 | 3 |
Amp Lee | 51 | 161 | 3.2 | 12 | 0 |
Scottie Graham | 57 | 138 | 2.4 | 12 | 0 |
Brad Johnson | 34 | 90 | 2.6 | 13 | 1 |
Charles Evans | 13 | 29 | 2.2 | 9 | 0 |
David Palmer | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 8 | 0 |
Warren Moon | 9 | 6 | 0.7 | 5 | 0 |
Randall McDaniel | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 435 | 1546 | 3.6 | 57 | 7 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cris Carter | 96 | 1163 | 12.1 | 43 | 10 |
Jake Reed | 72 | 1320 | 18.3 | 82 | 7 |
Amp Lee | 54 | 422 | 7.8 | 21 | 2 |
Qadry Ismail | 22 | 351 | 16.0 | 54 | 3 |
Charles Evans | 22 | 135 | 6.1 | 16 | 0 |
Andrew Jordan | 19 | 128 | 6.7 | 15 | 0 |
Leroy Hoard | 10 | 129 | 12.9 | 37 | 0 |
Greg DeLong | 8 | 34 | 4.2 | 9 | 0 |
Scottie Graham | 7 | 48 | 6.9 | 18 | 0 |
Robert Smith | 7 | 39 | 5.6 | 16 | 0 |
David Palmer | 6 | 40 | 6.7 | 20 | 0 |
Chris Walsh | 4 | 39 | 9.8 | 17 | 1 |
David Frisch | 3 | 27 | 9.0 | 21 | 1 |
Hunter Goodwin | 1 | 24 | 24.0 | 24 | 0 |
Totals | 331 | 3899 | 11.8 | 82 | 24 |
Kicking:
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mitch Berger | 88 | 3616 | 41.1 | 63 |
Totals | 88 | 3616 | 41.1 | 63 |
Punt Returns:
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Qadry Ismail | 28 | 527 | 18.8 | 32 | 0 |
David Palmer | 13 | 292 | 22.5 | 60 | 0 |
Harold Morrow | 6 | 117 | 19.5 | 26 | 0 |
Amp Lee | 5 | 85 | 17.0 | 23 | 0 |
Richard Brown | 3 | 35 | 11.7 | 12 | 0 |
John Gerak | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Greg DeLong | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Cris Carter | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 58 | 1075 | 18.5 | 60 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Orlando Thomas | 5 | 57 | 11.4 | 34 | 0 |
Robert Griffith | 4 | 67 | 16.8 | 41 | 0 |
Jeff Brady | 3 | 20 | 6.7 | 8 | 0 |
Corey Fuller | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 |
Dewayne Washington | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 27 | 1 |
Alfred Jackson | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 4 | 0 |
Dixon Edwards | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
Darryl Talley | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Jason Fisk | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 22 | 206 | 9.4 | 41 | 1 |
Sacks:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
John Randle | 11.5 | 0.0 | |
Fernando Smith | 9.5 | 0.0 | |
Martin Harrison | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Dixon Edwards | 3.5 | 0.0 | |
Derrick Alexander | 3.5 | 0.0 | |
Esera Tuaolo | 2.5 | 0.0 | |
Robert Griffith | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Jeff Brady | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
Harlon Barnett | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Jason Fisk | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Totals | 43.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Griffith | 86.5 | 78 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Jeff Brady | 87.5 | 74 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dewayne Washington | 72 | 69 | 6 | 0 | |||||
Dixon Edwards | 82 | 68 | 28 | 0 | |||||
Orlando Thomas | 74 | 65 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Corey Fuller | 58.5 | 53 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Harlon Barnett | 54.5 | 48 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Fernando Smith | 53 | 41 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | |
Darryl Talley | 46 | 41 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
John Randle | 40.5 | 35 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
Derrick Alexander | 40.5 | 33 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Jason Fisk | 26.5 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Martin Harrison | 24.5 | 21 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Esera Tuaolo | 22 | 15 | 14 | ||||||
Pete Bercich | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Dave Garnett | 10.5 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Ben Hanks | 4 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
Sean Vanhorse | 3.5 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Duane Clemons | 4.5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
Richard Brown | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Chris Johnson | 2.5 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
Brad Johnson | 5 | 3 | -8 | 0 | |||||
Warren Moon | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
John Gerak | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Greg DeLong | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Todd Steussie | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Robert Smith | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
David Palmer | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Qadry Ismail | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Cris Carter | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Amp Lee | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Leroy Hoard | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 807 | 692 | 230 | 0 | 26 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 15 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Scott Sisson | 22 | 30 | 0 | 96 | ||||||||||
Cris Carter | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | ||||||||
Jake Reed | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | |||||||||
Robert Smith | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
Leroy Hoard | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
Qadry Ismail | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||||
Amp Lee | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
Chris Walsh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||
David Palmer | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
Dewayne Washington | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Brad Johnson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
David Frisch | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Andrew Jordan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Totals | 7 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 298 |