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1987 New England Patriots Statistics
Team Record: 8-7
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's East Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Raymond Berry (8-7)
Location: Foxborough, Massachusetts
1987 New England Patriots Results
The New England Patriots of the National Football League ended the 1987 season with a record of 8 wins and 7 losses, finishing second in the NFL's East Division of the American Football Conference.
New England scored 320 points, while the defensive squad surrendered 293. Steve Grogan passed for 1,183 yards. Tony Collins paced pass catchers, catching 44 passes, while Stanley Morgan accumulated 672 receiving yards.
Tony Collins rushed for a team-best 474 yards for the Patriots.
Fred Marion picked off 4 errant tosses from the opposition. Andre Tippett topped pass rushers with 12.5 quarterback sacks, part of an overall team total of 43 sacks.
Raymond Berry 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 Grogan | 161 | 93 | 57.8 | 1183 | 7.3 | 10 | 6.2 | 9 | 5.6 | 40 | 7 | 55 | 78.2 |
Tom Ramsey | 134 | 71 | 53.0 | 898 | 6.7 | 6 | 4.5 | 6 | 4.5 | 40 | 14 | 90 | 70.4 |
Tony Eason | 79 | 42 | 53.2 | 453 | 5.7 | 3 | 3.8 | 2 | 2.5 | 45 | 8 | 70 | 72.4 |
Doug Flutie | 25 | 15 | 60.0 | 199 | 8.0 | 1 | 4.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 30 | 1 | 3 | 98.6 |
Bob Bleier | 39 | 14 | 35.9 | 181 | 4.6 | 1 | 2.6 | 1 | 2.6 | 35 | 3 | 28 | 49.2 |
Mosi Tatupu | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 15 | 15.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 158.3 |
Cedric Jones | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
Totals | 440 | 236 | 53.6 | 2929 | 6.7 | 22 | 5.0 | 18 | 4.1 | 45 | 33 | 246 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Collins | 147 | 474 | 3.2 | 19 | 3 |
Reggie Dupard | 94 | 318 | 3.4 | 49 | 3 |
Mosi Tatupu | 79 | 248 | 3.1 | 19 | 0 |
Bob Perryman | 41 | 187 | 4.6 | 48 | 0 |
Michael LeBlanc | 49 | 170 | 3.5 | 42 | 1 |
Tom Ramsey | 13 | 75 | 5.8 | 19 | 1 |
Irving Fryar | 9 | 52 | 5.8 | 16 | 0 |
Bruce Hansen | 16 | 44 | 2.8 | 7 | 0 |
Doug Flutie | 6 | 43 | 7.2 | 13 | 0 |
Elgin Davis | 9 | 43 | 4.8 | 27 | 0 |
Steve Grogan | 20 | 37 | 1.8 | 8 | 2 |
Tony Eason | 3 | 25 | 8.3 | 13 | 0 |
Chuck McSwain | 9 | 23 | 2.6 | 9 | 0 |
Carl Woods | 4 | 20 | 5.0 | 13 | 1 |
Stephen Starring | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 10 | 0 |
Craig James | 4 | 10 | 2.5 | 5 | 0 |
Rich Camarillo | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Bob Bleier | 5 | -5 | -1.0 | 1 | 1 |
Todd Whitten | 2 | -6 | -3.0 | -2 | 0 |
Totals | 513 | 1771 | 3.5 | 49 | 12 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Collins | 44 | 347 | 7.9 | 29 | 3 |
Stanley Morgan | 40 | 672 | 16.8 | 45 | 3 |
Irving Fryar | 31 | 467 | 15.1 | 40 | 5 |
Cedric Jones | 25 | 388 | 15.5 | 29 | 3 |
Stephen Starring | 17 | 289 | 17.0 | 34 | 3 |
Greg Baty | 15 | 138 | 9.2 | 22 | 2 |
Mosi Tatupu | 15 | 136 | 9.1 | 23 | 0 |
Lin Dawson | 12 | 81 | 6.8 | 14 | 0 |
Larry Linne | 11 | 158 | 14.4 | 30 | 2 |
Willie Scott | 5 | 35 | 7.0 | 15 | 1 |
Wayne Coffey | 3 | 66 | 22.0 | 35 | 0 |
Dennis Gadbois | 3 | 51 | 17.0 | 20 | 0 |
Derwin Williams | 3 | 30 | 10.0 | 12 | 0 |
Bob Perryman | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 7 | 0 |
Reggie Dupard | 3 | 1 | 0.3 | 2 | 0 |
Todd Frain | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 11 | 0 |
Michael LeBlanc | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 3 | 0 |
Bruce Hansen | 1 | 22 | 22.0 | 22 | 0 |
Clay Pickering | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Totals | 236 | 2929 | 12.4 | 45 | 22 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Franklin | 38 | 37 | 97.4 | 26 | 15 | 57.7 | 82 |
Eric Schubert | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 4 |
Totals | 39 | 38 | 97.4 | 28 | 16 | 57.1 | 86 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rich Camarillo | 62 | 2489 | 40.1 | 73 |
Al Herline | 25 | 861 | 34.4 | 50 |
Totals | 87 | 3350 | 38.5 | 73 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irving Fryar | 18 | 174 | 9.7 | 36 | 0 |
Larry Linne | 5 | 22 | 4.4 | 16 | 0 |
Stephen Starring | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
Fred Marion | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 25 | 213 | 8.5 | 36 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stephen Starring | 23 | 445 | 19.3 | 43 | 0 |
Elgin Davis | 5 | 134 | 26.8 | 43 | 0 |
Irving Fryar | 6 | 119 | 19.8 | 31 | 0 |
Reggie Dupard | 4 | 61 | 15.2 | 21 | 0 |
Bob Perryman | 3 | 43 | 14.3 | 16 | 0 |
Chuck McSwain | 2 | 32 | 16.0 | 24 | 0 |
Michael LeBlanc | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 24 | 0 |
Tony Collins | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
Bruce Hansen | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 14 | 0 |
Rogers Alexander | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
Totals | 48 | 901 | 18.8 | 43 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fred Marion | 4 | 53 | 13.2 | 25 | 0 |
Ronnie Lippett | 3 | 103 | 34.3 | 45 | 2 |
Raymond Clayborn | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 24 | 0 |
Ernest Gibson | 2 | 17 | 8.5 | 17 | 0 |
Jim Bowman | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 3 | 0 |
Ed Williams | 1 | 51 | 51.0 | 51 | 0 |
Roland James | 1 | 27 | 27.0 | 27 | 0 |
Rod McSwain | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 17 | 0 |
Ron Shegog | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
Darryl Holmes | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
Johnny Rembert | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
Joe Peterson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Perry Williams | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 21 | 307 | 14.6 | 51 | 2 |
Sacks:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
Andre Tippett | 12.5 | 0.0 | |
Garin Veris | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Brent Williams | 5.0 | 0.0 | |
Toby Williams | 4.5 | 0.0 | |
Ed Reynolds | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Johnny Rembert | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Kenneth Sims | 1.5 | 0.0 | |
Dino Mangiero | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Don Blackmon | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Milford Hodge | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Murray Wichard | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Larry McGrew | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Jerry McCabe | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Steve Wilburn | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Ronnie Lippett | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Jim Bowman | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
Totals | 43.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brent Williams | 29 | 29 | 0 | ||||||
Steve Grogan | 8 | 6 | -6 | 0 | |||||
Andre Tippett | 0 | 3 | 29 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Bob Bleier | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Garin Veris | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bob Perryman | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Ed Williams | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||
Tony Collins | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Murray Wichard | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Joe Peterson | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Tim Jordan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Stephen Starring | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Raymond Clayborn | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Jim Bowman | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
Larry McGrew | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Doug Flutie | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Steve Nelson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Kenneth Sims | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Reggie Dupard | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Fred Marion | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Larry Linne | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Derwin Williams | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Randy Sealby | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
George Colton | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Greg Moore | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Chuck McSwain | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bruce Hansen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Tom Ramsey | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Greg Robinson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Darryl Holmes | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Michael LeBlanc | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Danny Villa | 1 | 0 | -13 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Mosi Tatupu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Guy Morriss | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Tony Eason | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Irving Fryar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 29 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 42 | 35 | 1 | 0 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
Tony Franklin | 15 | 37 | 0 | 82 | ||||||||||
Tony Collins | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||
Irving Fryar | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | ||||||
Reggie Dupard | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Cedric Jones | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Stephen Starring | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
Stanley Morgan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Steve Grogan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
Greg Baty | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
Larry Linne | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Willie Scott | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Ronnie Lippett | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
Andre Tippett | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Tom Ramsey | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Bob Bleier | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Michael LeBlanc | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Raymond Clayborn | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Carl Woods | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Eric Schubert | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
Totals | 12 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 320 |