1996 San Diego Chargers Statistics
Team Record: 8-8
Finishing 3rd in the NFL's West Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Bobby Ross (8-8)
Location: San Diego, California
1996 San Diego Chargers Results
The San Diego Chargers of the National Football League ended the 1996 season with a record of 8 wins and 8 losses, finishing third in the NFL's West Division of the American Football Conference.
The Chargers scored 310 points, but the defense yielded 376. Stan Humphries tossed for 2,670 yards. Tony Martin paced all receivers, grabbing 85 passes for 1,171 yards.
Leonard Russell carried the ball for a team-best 713 yards for San Diego.
The sticky-fingered defense led the way with 36 turnovers. Rodney Harrison intercepted 5 opponent throws. Junior Seau sacked opposing passers 7 times.
Bobby Ross coached the team.
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Passing:
Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stan Humphries | 416 | 232 | 55.8 | 2670 | 6.4 | 18 | 4.3 | 13 | 3.1 | 63 | 20 | 187 | 76.7 |
Sean Salisbury | 161 | 82 | 50.9 | 984 | 6.1 | 5 | 3.1 | 8 | 5.0 | 56 | 13 | 109 | 59.6 |
Totals | 577 | 314 | 54.4 | 3654 | 6.3 | 23 | 4.0 | 21 | 3.6 | 63 | 33 | 296 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Leonard Russell | 219 | 713 | 3.3 | 21 | 7 |
Terrell Fletcher | 77 | 282 | 3.7 | 19 | 0 |
Aaron Hayden | 55 | 166 | 3.0 | 13 | 0 |
Freddie Bradley | 32 | 109 | 3.4 | 17 | 0 |
Stan Humphries | 21 | 28 | 1.3 | 7 | 0 |
Sean Salisbury | 6 | 14 | 2.3 | 11 | 0 |
Andre Coleman | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 0 |
Totals | 412 | 1312 | 3.2 | 21 | 7 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tony Martin | 85 | 1171 | 13.8 | 55 | 14 |
Terrell Fletcher | 61 | 476 | 7.8 | 41 | 2 |
Charlie Jones | 41 | 524 | 12.8 | 63 | 4 |
Andre Coleman | 36 | 486 | 13.5 | 50 | 2 |
Alfred Pupunu | 24 | 271 | 11.3 | 41 | 1 |
Deems May | 19 | 188 | 9.9 | 39 | 0 |
Leonard Russell | 13 | 180 | 13.8 | 35 | 0 |
Brian Roche | 13 | 111 | 8.5 | 19 | 0 |
Shannon Mitchell | 10 | 57 | 5.7 | 25 | 0 |
Bryan Still | 6 | 142 | 23.7 | 56 | 0 |
Omar Ellison | 3 | 15 | 5.0 | 6 | 0 |
Freddie Bradley | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 20 | 0 |
Aaron Hayden | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Walter Reeves | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 314 | 3654 | 11.6 | 63 | 23 |
Kicking:
Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Carney | 31 | 31 | 100.0 | 36 | 29 | 80.6 | 118 |
Totals | 31 | 31 | 100.0 | 36 | 29 | 80.6 | 118 |
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Darren Bennett | 87 | 3967 | 45.6 | 66 |
Totals | 87 | 3967 | 45.6 | 66 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Darrien Gordon | 36 | 537 | 14.9 | 81 | 1 |
Charlie Jones | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 21 | 0 |
Bryan Still | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 38 | 559 | 14.7 | 81 | 1 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andre Coleman | 55 | 1210 | 22.0 | 57 | 0 |
Bryan Still | 4 | 113 | 28.2 | 37 | 0 |
Alfred Pupunu | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 15 | 0 |
Rodney Harrison | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Leonard Russell | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 10 | 0 |
Vernon Edwards | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 63 | 1358 | 21.6 | 57 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rodney Harrison | 5 | 56 | 11.2 | 29 | 0 |
Terrance Shaw | 3 | 78 | 26.0 | 36 | 0 |
Kurt Gouveia | 3 | 41 | 13.7 | 21 | 0 |
Willie Clark | 2 | 83 | 41.5 | 83 | 1 |
Darrien Gordon | 2 | 55 | 27.5 | 55 | 0 |
Junior Seau | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 10 | 0 |
Kevin Ross | 2 | 7 | 3.5 | 7 | 0 |
Dwayne Harper | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Shawn Lee | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
Glen Young | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
Totals | 22 | 336 | 15.3 | 83 | 1 |
Sacks:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
Junior Seau | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Chris Mims | 6.0 | 0.0 | |
Marco Coleman | 4.0 | 0.0 | |
Reuben Davis | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Raylee Johnson | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Darrien Gordon | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
John Parrella | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Rodney Harrison | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Lewis Bush | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Kurt Gouveia | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Vernon Edwards | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Shawn Lee | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Totals | 32.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Junior Seau | 124 | 110 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Rodney Harrison | 115 | 105 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Terrance Shaw | 78.5 | 72 | 13 | 0 | |||||
Kurt Gouveia | 74 | 67 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kevin Ross | 72.5 | 67 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Lewis Bush | 56 | 48 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Darrien Gordon | 47 | 44 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Willie Clark | 39.5 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | |
Marco Coleman | 38 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
John Parrella | 34.5 | 31 | 7 | ||||||
Reuben Davis | 27 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Chris Mims | 24 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Dwayne Harper | 18 | 17 | 2 | 0 | |||||
Shawn Lee | 15 | 13 | 4 | 0 | |||||
Glen Young | 9.5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eric Castle | 9 | 7 | 4 | ||||||
Mark Montreuil | 6 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
Patrick Sapp | 6 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
Vernon Edwards | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dave Hendrix | 4.5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
Dwayne Gordon | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
Stan Humphries | 7 | 4 | -6 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Andre Coleman | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Leonard Russell | 6 | 2 | -7 | 0 | |||||
Alfred Pupunu | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Aaron Hayden | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Vaughn Parker | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Terrell Fletcher | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Eric Moten | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Deems May | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Sean Salisbury | 3 | 0 | -10 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Shannon Mitchell | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bryan Still | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Totals | 806 | 727 | 158 | 0 | 30 | 29 | -10 | 0 | 9 |
Total Scoring:
Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
John Carney | 29 | 31 | 0 | 118 | ||||||||||
Tony Martin | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | |||||||||
Leonard Russell | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | |||||||
Charlie Jones | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | ||||||||
Terrell Fletcher | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Andre Coleman | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Alfred Pupunu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Darrien Gordon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Willie Clark | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Totals | 7 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 310 |