1987 Minnesota Vikings

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Record: 8-7-0, Finished 2nd in NFC Central Division
NFL Season Summary

Scored 336 points (22.4/g), 13th of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 335 points (22.3/g), 16th.
Differential of 1 points (0.1/g), 12th.
Expected W-L: 7.5-7.5.

Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +4 (0.3/g), 12th.

Coached by Jerry Burns (8-7-0)

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1987 Statistics / Starters & Roster / Games & Schedule / Team Draftees

Team Games & Schedule

Glossary · ·

								Score		Offense					Defense
Week		Date			Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO
1	Sun	September 13	box	W	1-0		Detroit Lions	34	19	21	353	240	113	3	17	272	189	83	2
2	Sun	September 20	box	W	2-0	@	Los Angeles Rams	21	16	17	353	257	96	2	15	210	88	122	2
3	Sun	October 4	box	L	2-1		Green Bay Packers	16	23	17	315	219	96	2	16	300	153	147
4	Sun	October 11	box	L	2-2	@	Chicago Bears	7	27	15	151	108	43	2	26	344	159	185	1
5	Sun	October 18	box	L	2-3	@	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	10	20	16	175	152	23	6	15	268	193	75	2
6	Mon	October 26	box	W	3-3		Denver Broncos	34	27	27	393	196	197	5	21	329	206	123	1
7	Sun	November 1	box	L	3-4	@	Seattle Seahawks	17	28	23	395	252	143	2	19	318	195	123	1
8	Sun	November 8	box	W	4-4		Los Angeles Raiders	31	20	13	200	84	116	1	19	376	219	157	5
9	Sun	November 15	box	W	5-4		Tampa Bay Buccaneers	23	17	23	330	106	224	1	14	259	244	15	4
10	Sun	November 22	box	W	6-4		Atlanta Falcons	24	13	18	302	169	133	1	16	290	194	96	1
11	Thu	November 26	box	W	7-4	@	Dallas Cowboys	44	38	27	476	288	188	2	23	403	291	112	5
12	Sun	December 6	box	L	7-5		Chicago Bears	24	30	18	356	281	75	1	26	423	264	159	3
13	Sun	December 13	box	L	7-6	@	Green Bay Packers	10	16	14	289	162	127	2	19	300	179	121	1
14	Sun	December 20	box	W	8-6	@	Detroit Lions	17	14	20	340	135	205		17	364	235	129	5
15	Sat	December 26	box	L	8-7		Washington Redskins	24	27	24	381	177	204	3	18	368	291	77	4
		Playoffs
WildCard	Sun	January 3	box	W	9-7	@	New Orleans Saints	44	10
Division	Sat	January 9	box	W	10-7	@	San Francisco 49ers	36	24
ConfChamp	Sun	January 17	box	L	10-8	@	Washington Redskins	10	17

Team Stats and Rankings

Glossary · ·

						Passing							Rushing
	Pts	Yds	Ply	Y/P	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	TO	FL	1stPy
Team Offense	336	4809	980	4.9	293	232	446	2826	21	23	5.7	136	482	1983	20	4.1	129	33	10	28
Team Defense	335	4824	979	4.9	467	278	498	3100	24	26	5.8	159	440	1724	9	3.9	281	37	11	27
Lg Rank Offense	13	15			14		22	20	15	22	19		14	11	1	7		9	2
Lg Rank Defense	16	10			12		20	16	17	4	12		7	11	8	16		11	24

Passing

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	NY/A	ANY/A	Sk%
Wade Wilson	28	QB	12	7	5-2-0	140	264	53.0	2106	14	5.3	13	4.9	73	8.0	6.3	15.0	175.5	76.7	26	194	6.6	5.1	9.0
Tony Adams	37		3	3	0-3-0	49	89	55.1	607	3	3.4	5	5.6	63	6.8	4.6	12.4	202.3	64.2	18	120	4.6	2.7	16.8
Tommy Kramer	32	qb	6	5	3-2-0	40	81	49.4	452	4	4.9	3	3.7	40	5.6	4.4	11.3	75.3	67.5	7	35	4.7	3.7	8.0
Rich Gannon	22		4	0		2	6	33.3	18	0	0.0	1	16.7	12	3.0	-4.5	9.0	4.5	2.8	0	0	3.0	-4.5	0.0
Larry Miller	25		2	0		1	6	16.7	2	0	0.0	1	16.7	2	0.3	-7.2	2.0	1.0	0.0	1	10	-1.1	-7.6	14.3
Team Total	26.4		15		8-7-0	232	446	52.0	3185	21	4.7	23	5.2	73	7.1	5.3	13.7	265.4	69.4	52	359	5.7	4.0	10.4
Opp Total			15			278	498	55.8	3100	24	4.8	26	5.2		6.2	4.4	11.2	206.7	68.9	41	307	5.8	3.5

Rushing & Receiving

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

					Rushing							Receiving
	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb
Darrin Nelson	28	RB	10	9	131	642	2	72	4.9	64.2	13.1	26	129	5.0	0	13	2.6	12.9	771	2	2
D.J. Dozier	22		9	3	69	257	5	19	3.7	28.6	7.7	12	89	7.4	2	20	1.3	9.9	346	7	2
Alfred Anderson	26	FB	10	10	68	319	2	27	4.7	31.9	6.8	7	69	9.9	0	22	0.7	6.9	388	2	1
Allen Rice	25		12	2	51	131	1	13	2.6	10.9	4.3	19	201	10.6	1	24	1.6	16.8	332	2	1
Rick Fenney	23		11	0	42	174	2	12	4.1	15.8	3.8	7	27	3.9	0	18	0.6	2.5	201	2	0
Wade Wilson	28	QB	12	7	41	263	5	38	6.4	21.9	3.4								263	5	3
Tony Adams	37		3	3	11	31	0	12	2.8	10.3	3.7								31	0	3
Tommy Kramer	32	qb	6	5	10	44	2	15	4.4	7.3	1.7								44	2	2
Jeff Womack	24		2	1	9	20	0	13	2.2	10.0	4.5	5	46	9.2	1	23	2.5	23.0	66	1	0
Jimmy K. Smith	27		1	1	7	13	0	5	1.9	13.0	7.0								13	0	0
Andre Thomas	27		1	0	6	4	0	5	0.7	4.0	6.0	2	13	6.5	0	10	2.0	13.0	17	0	0
Leo Lewis	31	WR	12	12	5	-7	0	4	-1.4	-0.6	0.4	24	383	16.0	2	36	2.0	31.9	376	2	1
Sam Harrell	30		1	1	5	8	0	4	1.6	8.0	5.0	3	20	6.7	0	8	3.0	20.0	28	0	1
Adam Walker	24		2	0	5	24	0	11	4.8	12.0	2.5	2	3	1.5	0	2	1.0	1.5	27	0	0
Brett Wilson	27		3	1	5	16	0	6	3.2	5.3	1.7	2	14	7.0	0	9	0.7	4.7	30	0	0
Phil Frye	29		1	1	4	4	0	2	1.0	4.0	4.0	3	25	8.3	0	12	3.0	25.0	29	0	0
Steve Harris	25		2	0	4	3	0	2	0.8	1.5	2.0	2	17	8.5	0	16	1.0	8.5	20	0	0
Leonard Moore	24		1	1	4	11	0	4	2.8	11.0	4.0	1	8	8.0	0	8	1.0	8.0	19	0	0
James Brim	24		3	3	2	36	1	38	18.0	12.0	0.7	18	282	15.7	2	63	6.0	94.0	318	3	0
Jim Gustafson	26		12	0	1	-2	0	-2	-2.0	-0.2	0.1	4	55	13.8	0	23	0.3	4.6	53	0	0
Larry Miller	25		2	0	1	-1	0	-1	-1.0	-0.5	0.5								-1	0	0
Bucky Scribner	27		4	0	1	-7	0	-7	-7.0	-1.8	0.3								-7	0	1
Anthony Carter*	27	WR	12	11	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	38	922	24.3	7	73	3.2	76.8	922	7	0
Steve Jordan*	26	TE	12	12	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	35	490	14.0	2	38	2.9	40.8	490	2	1
Hassan Jones	23		12	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	7	189	27.0	2	58	0.6	15.8	189	2	0
Steve Finch	26		1	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	3	54	18.0	0	20	3.0	54.0	54	0	0
Rickey Parks	23		2	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	3	46	15.3	0	19	1.5	23.0	46	0	0
Ron Daugherty	29		3	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	2	21	10.5	0	13	0.7	7.0	21	0	0
Willie Gillespie	26		1	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	2	28	14.0	0	14	2.0	28.0	28	0	0
Carl Hilton	23		11	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	2	16	8.0	2	8	0.2	1.5	16	2	0
Marc May	29		3	3	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	1	22	22.0	0	22	0.3	7.3	22	0	1
Mike Mularkey	26		9	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	1	6	6.0	0	6	0.1	0.7	6	0	0
Ed Schenk	27		3	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	1	10	10.0	0	10	0.3	3.3	10	0	0
Team Total	26.4		15		482	1983	20	72	4.1	165.3	40.2	232	3185	13.7	21	73	19.3	265.4	5168	41	28
Opp Total			15		440	1724	9		3.9	114.9	29.3	278	3100	11.2	24		18.5	206.7	4824	33	30

Kick & Punt Returns

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

					Punt Returns					Kick Returns
	Age	Pos	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd
Neal Guggemos	23	RET	12	1						36	808	0	42	22.4	808
Leo Lewis	31	WR	12	12	22	275	1	78	12.5						651
Rufus Bess	31		3	2	7	86	0	28	12.3	10	169	0	33	16.9	255
Greg Richardson	23		2	0	4	19	0	7	4.8	4	76	0	24	19.0	95
Darrin Nelson	28	RB	10	9						7	164	0	42	23.4	935
Jeff Womack	24		2	1						5	77	0	20	15.4	143
Anthony Carter*	27	WR	12	11	3	40	0	22	13.3						962
D.J. Dozier	22		9	3						2	23	0	13	11.5	369
Allen Rice	25		12	2						2	29	0	18	14.5	361
Jimmy K. Smith	27		1	1						2	42	0	22	21.0	55
Sam Harrell	30		1	1						1	4	0	4	4.0	32
Carl Hilton	23		11	1						1	13	0	13	13.0	29
Mike Mularkey	26		9	0						1	16	0	16	16.0	22
Team Total	26.4		15		36	420	1	78	11.7	71	1421	0	42	20.0	7009
Opp Total			15		44		0			64	1173	0		18.3

Kicking & Punting

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

					0--19		20--29		30--39		40--49		50+		Tot			PAT			Punting
	Age	Pos	G	GS	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FG%	XPA	XPM	XP%	Pnt	Yds	Lng	Blck	Y/P
Chuck Nelson	27	K	12	0			12	10	4	2	6		2	1	24	13	54.2%	37	36	97.3%
Greg Coleman	33	P	9	0																	45	1786	54	1	39.7
Bucky Scribner	27		4	0																	20	827	54	0	41.4
Dave Bruno	24		2	0																	13	464	53	0	35.7
Dale Dawson	23		3	0					2	1	3				5	1	20.0%	4	4	100.0%
Team Total	26.4		15				12	10	6	3	9		2	1	29	14	48.3%	41	40	97.6%	78	3077	54	1	39.4
Opp Total			15												31	24	77.4%	38	35	92.1%	74	2953			39.9

Defense & Fumbles

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

						Def Interceptions					Fumbles					Tackles
	Age	Pos	G	GS	Sk	Int	Yds	TD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	TD	Tkl	Ast	Sfty
Chris Doleman*	26	RDE	12	12	11.0						6	0	0	0	0	57
Doug Martin	30	LDE	12	12	9.0
Stafford Mays	29	rdt	12	7	7.0							0	2	0	0
Joey Browner*+	27	SS	12	12	1.0	6	67	0	23			0	1	0	0
Neal Guggemos	23	RET	12	1		1	26	0	26			4	3	0	0
Keith Millard	25	RDT	9	8	3.5							0	2	8	0
Henry Thomas	22	LDT	12	12	2.5	1	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	81
Rufus Bess	31		3	2								4	0	0	0
John Harris	31	FS	12	12		3	20	0	14			0	1	0	0
Wymon Henderson	26	LCB	12	8		4	33	0	17							70
Jesse Solomon	24	LLB	12	12	2.0	1	30	0	30		0	0	1	33	0	126
Scott Studwell*	33	MLB	12	11	1.0	2	26	0	14			0	1	0	0
Tony Adams	37		3	3								3	0	0	0
Carl Lee	26	RCB	12	12		3	53	0	36							62
Leo Lewis	31	WR	12	12								1	2	0	0
Wade Wilson	28	QB	12	7								3	0	-3	0
Dan Coleman	25		3	1	2.0
D.J. Dozier	22		9	3								2	0	0	0
Issiac Holt	25	lcb	9	6		2	7	0	7
Tommy Kramer	32	qb	6	5								2	0	0	0
Darrin Nelson	28	RB	10	9								2	0	0	0
Frank Ori	23		3	3								0	2	0	0
Allen Rice	25		12	2								1	1	0	0
Alfred Anderson	26	FB	10	10								1	0	0	0
Ray Berry	24		11	0								0	1	0	0
Don Bramlett	25		3	1								0	1	0	0
David Evans	28		3	3								0	1	0	0
Sam Harrell	30		1	1								1	0	0	0
Steve Harris	25		2	0								0	1	0	0
David Howard	26	RLB	10	7		1	1	0	1
Steve Jordan*	26	TE	12	12								1	0	0	0
Fletcher Louallen	25		3	3		1	16	0	16
Chris Martin	27		12	4							0	0	1	0	0	31
Marc May	29		3	3								1	0	0	0
Fred Molden	24		2	0	1.0
Greg Richardson	23		2	0								1	0	0	0
Bucky Scribner	27		4	0								1	0	0	0
Wayne Smith	30		6	1		1	24	0	24
Jimmy Walker	30		2	2	1.0
Jeff Womack	24		2	1								0	1	0	0
Gary Zimmerman*+	26	LT	12	12								0	1	4	0
Team Total	26.4		15		41.0	26	303	0	36		6	28	24	42	0	440		1
Opp Total			15		52							30	19

Scoring Summary

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

	Age	Pos	G	GS	RshTD	RecTD	PR TD	XPM	FGM	Pts
Chuck Nelson	27	K	12	0				36	13	75
Anthony Carter*	27	WR	12	11		7				42
D.J. Dozier	22		9	3	5	2				42
Wade Wilson	28	QB	12	7	5					30
James Brim	24		3	3	1	2				18
Leo Lewis	31	WR	12	12		2	1			18
Alfred Anderson	26	FB	10	10	2					12
Rick Fenney	23