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1996 Carolina Panthers Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 12-4-0, 1st in NFC West Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Dom Capers (12-4-0)

Points For: 367 (22.9/g) 7th of 30

Points Against: 218 (13.6/g) 2nd of 30

Expected W-L: 12.4-3.6

SRS: 7.05 (4th of 30), SOS: -2.26

Playoffs:
Won Divisional Round 26-17 vs. Dallas Cowboys
Lost Conference Championship 13-30 vs. Green Bay Packers

Offensive Coordinator: Joe Pendry

Defensive Coordinator: Vic Fangio

Other Notable Asst.: Don Breaux (Tight Ends), Bill Davis (Outside Linebackers), Chick Harris (Running Backs), Greg Roman (Def. Quality Control), John Shoop (Offensive Quality Control) and Richard Williamson (Wide Receivers)

Stadium: Ericsson Stadium

Majority Owner: Jerry Richardson

General Manager: Bill Polian

Defensive Alignment: 3-4

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +8000; O/U: 5.5

Training Camp: Wofford College (Spartanburg, South Carolina)

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Team Stats and Rankings

Team Stats and Rankings Table
			Tot Yds & TO					Passing							Rushing					Penalties
Player	PF	Yds	Ply	Y/P	TO	FL	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	Pen	Yds	1stPy
Team Stats	367	4812	1025	4.7	25	14	292	273	487	3083	22	11	5.9	160	502	1729	9	3.4	93	94	638	39
Opp. Stats	218	4776	990	4.8	38	16	251	307	556	3214	17	22	5.2	167	374	1562	6	4.2	69	133	1155	15
Lg Rank Offense	7	23			7	20	19		23	22	12	1	15		4	15	19	24
Lg Rank Defense	2	10			5	4	2		22	12	6	7	5		2	8	4	26

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
										Score		Offense					Defense					Expected Points
Week	Day	Date				OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	Offense	Defense	Sp. Tms
1	Sun	September 1	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-0		Atlanta Falcons	29	6	23	315	186	129	1	12	281	162	119	1	2.53	9.92	9.81
2	Sun	September 8	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-0	@	New Orleans Saints	22	20	15	225	142	83	1	14	338	244	94	2	-10.50	14.71	-0.69
3									Bye Week
4	Sun	September 22	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-0		San Francisco 49ers	23	7	21	389	272	117	1	15	300	252	48	1	2.24	7.80	5.53
5	Sun	September 29	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-1	@	Jacksonville Jaguars	14	24	21	272	215	57	2	22	378	199	179	2	-2.64	-0.15	-12.25
6	Sun	October 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-2	@	Minnesota Vikings	12	14	15	256	155	101	6	16	293	192	101	2	-15.41	3.98	7.44
7	Sun	October 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-2		St. Louis Rams	45	13	21	361	177	184	1	15	219	141	78	3	7.33	21.77	2.56
8	Sun	October 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-2		New Orleans Saints	19	7	21	314	155	159		10	174	103	71	2	-3.93	13.12	1.97
9	Sun	October 27	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-3	@	Philadelphia Eagles	9	20	10	300	239	61	2	16	359	329	30	1	-30.82	4.66	11.35
10	Sun	November 3	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-4	@	Atlanta Falcons	17	20	17	347	243	104	3	16	313	189	124	2	-2.35	5.97	-7.91
11	Sun	November 10	8:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-4		New York Giants	27	17	23	350	208	142	1	14	289	215	74	4	4.63	7.79	-1.39
12	Sun	November 17	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-4	@	St. Louis Rams	20	10	22	255	108	147	2	15	243	121	122	1	-4.43	11.87	5.69
13	Sun	November 24	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		8-4	@	Houston Oilers	31	6	12	254	160	94	1	17	271	186	85	4	7.26	23.37	-6.69
14	Sun	December 1	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		9-4		Tampa Bay Buccaneers	24	0	13	215	83	132		17	284	206	78	4	-10.89	29.60	5.64
15	Sun	December 8	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		10-4	@	San Francisco 49ers	30	24	22	382	324	58		23	450	375	75	4	8.76	-8.86	8.12
16	Sun	December 15	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		11-4		Baltimore Ravens	27	16	21	350	268	82	2	17	319	220	99	3	4.58	8.27	-1.48
17	Sun	December 22	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		12-4		Pittsburgh Steelers	18	14	15	227	148	79	2	12	265	80	185	2	-17.22	19.61	3.24
		Playoffs
Division	Sun	January 5	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		13-4		Dallas Cowboys	26	17	18	227	100	127	2	21	244	148	96	3	-2.90	16.00	0.45
Conf. Champ.	Sun	January 12	12:30PM ET	boxscore	L		13-5	@	Green Bay Packers	13	30	12	251	206	45	3	22	479	278	201	2	-11.44	-5.56	-1.47

Passing

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Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Kerry Collins	24	QB	13	12	9-3-0	204	364	56.0	2454	14	3.8	9	2.5	116	44.5	55	6.7	6.40	12.0	188.8	79.4	18	114	4.71	6.13	5.80	1	1	PB
2	Steve Beuerlein	31	QB	8	4	3-1-0	69	123	56.1	879	8	6.5	2	1.6	42	41.1	40	7.1	7.72	12.7	109.9	93.5	18	136	12.77	5.27	5.77	1	1
	Team Totals			16	16	12-4-0	273	487	56.1	3083	22	4.5	11	2.3	158	43.6	55	6.8	6.73	12.2	192.7	83.0	36	250	6.88	5.89	5.79	2	2

Passing Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD	Awards
1	Kerry Collins	24	QB	2	2	1-1-0	31	59	52.5	315	3	5.1	3	5.1	18	42.6	27	5.3	4.07	10.2	157.5	63.9	2	9	3.28	5.02	3.79	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	1-1-0	31	59	52.5	306	3	5.1	3	5.1	18	42.6	27	5.8	4.07	10.2	153.0	55.6	2	9	3.28	5.28	3.49	0	0

Rushing & Receiving

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Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing									Receiving												Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Ctch%	Y/Tgt	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Anthony Johnson	29	RB	16	11	300	1120	6	63	45.7	29	3.7	70.0	18.8	33	26	192	7.4	0	5	45.5	55	1.6	12.0	78.8	5.8	326	4.0	1312	6	2
2	Mark Carrier	31	WR	16	15	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	104	58	808	13.9	6	38	51.9	39	3.6	50.5	55.8	7.8	58	13.9	808	6	0
3	Wesley Walls	30	TE	16	15	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	111	61	713	11.7	10	43	49.5	40	3.8	44.6	55.0	6.4	61	11.7	713	10	0	PB,AP-2
4	Willie Green	30	WR	15	10	1	1	0	0	0.0	1	1.0	0.1	0.1	75	46	614	13.3	3	33	56.0	50	3.1	40.9	61.3	8.2	47	13.1	615	3	0
5	Muhsin Muhammad	23	WR	9	5	1	-1	0	0	0.0	-1	-1.0	-0.1	0.1	49	25	407	16.3	1	14	44.9	54	2.8	45.2	51.0	8.3	26	15.6	406	1	0
6	Winslow Oliver	23	RB	16	0	47	183	0	7	29.8	16	3.9	11.4	2.9	22	15	144	9.6	0	6	36.4	29	0.9	9.0	68.2	6.5	62	5.3	327	0	4
7	Rocket Ismail	27	WR	13	5	8	80	1	0	0.0	35	10.0	6.2	0.6	33	12	214	17.8	0	0	0.0	51	0.9	16.5	36.4	6.5	20	14.7	294	1	0
8	Howard Griffith	29	FB	16	14	12	7	1	1	8.3	3	0.6	0.4	0.8	48	27	223	8.3	1	11	41.7	21	1.7	13.9	56.3	4.6	39	5.9	230	2	1
9	Tim Biakabutuka	22	RB	4	4	71	229	0	10	38.0	17	3.2	57.3	17.8	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			71	3.2	229	0	0
10	Kerry Collins	24	QB	13	12	32	38	0	8	34.4	14	1.2	2.9	2.5	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			32	1.2	38	0	6	PB
11	Dino Philyaw	26	RB	9	0	12	38	1	3	50.0	8	3.2	4.2	1.3	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			12	3.2	38	1	0
12	Steve Beuerlein	31	QB	8	4	12	17	0	1	25.0	13	1.4	2.1	1.5	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			12	1.4	17	0	9
13	Dwight Stone	32	WR	16	0	1	6	0	1	100.0	6	6.0	0.4	0.1	3	1	11	11.0	0	1	33.3	11	0.1	0.7	33.3	3.7	2	8.5	17	0	0
14	Leroy Hoard	28	RB	3	0	5	11	0	0	0.0	5	2.2	3.7	1.7	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			5	2.2	11	0	0
15	Scott Greene	24	RB	8	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	2	7	3.5	1	1	100.0	6	0.3	0.9	100.0	3.5	2	3.5	7	1	0
	Team Totals			16	16	502	1729	9	94	39.8	35	3.4	108.1	31.4	480	273	3333	12.2	22	152	45.6	55	17.1	208.3	56.9	6.9	775	6.5	5062	31	22

Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing									Receiving												Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Ctch%	Y/Tgt	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Anthony Johnson	29	RB	2	2	37	135	0	5	40.5	12	3.6	67.5	18.5	4	2	23	11.5	0	1	50.0	14	1.0	11.5	50.0	5.8	39	4.1	158	0	1
2	Willie Green	30	WR	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	19	10	104	10.4	1	5	42.1	22	5.0	52.0	52.6	5.5	10	10.4	104	1	1
3	Mark Carrier	31	WR	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	15	5	72	14.4	0	4	26.7	27	2.5	36.0	33.3	4.8	5	14.4	72	0	0
4	Wesley Walls	30	TE	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	8	6	58	9.7	1	5	62.5	20	3.0	29.0	75.0	7.3	6	9.7	58	1	0
5	Winslow Oliver	23	RB	2	0	5	26	0	2	60.0	11	5.2	13.0	2.5	4	2	10	5.0	0	1	50.0	5	1.0	5.0	50.0	2.5	7	5.1	36	0	1
6	Rocket Ismail	27	WR	2	0	1	7	0	0	0.0	7	7.0	3.5	0.5	1	1	24	24.0	0	0	0.0	24	0.5	12.0	100.0	24.0	2	15.5	31	0	0
7	Howard Griffith	29	FB	2	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	5	5	24	4.8	1	1	80.0	9	2.5	12.0	100.0	4.8	5	4.8	24	1	0
8	Kerry Collins	24	QB	2	2	7	4	0	2	28.6	8	0.6	2.0	3.5	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			7	0.6	4	0	0
9	Rohn Stark	37	P	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	1.0	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	0.0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			2	2	51	172	0	9	39.2	12	3.4	86.0	25.5	56	31	315	10.2	3	17	44.6	27	15.5	157.5	55.4	5.6	82	5.9	487	3	3

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Defense & Fumbles

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Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions				Fumbles						Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Eric Davis	28	LCB	16	16	5	57	0	36	2	0	0	0	0	0.0	60	56	4	0	PB
2	Kevin Greene	34	LOLB	16	16	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	66	1	14.5	51	37	14	0	PB,AP-1,AP DPoY-2
3	Greg Kragen	34	NT	16	16	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	0	0	3.0	48	39	9	0
4	Lamar Lathon	29	ROLB	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	4	0	13.5	77	54	23	0	PB,AP-2,AP DPoY-7
5	Sam Mills	37	LILB	16	16	1	10	0	10	0	0	2	41	1	5.5	122	90	32	0	PB,AP-1,AP DPoY-4
6	Pat Terrell	28	FS	16	16	3	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	60	50	10	0
7	Tyrone Poole	24	RCB	15	15	1	35	0	35	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	68	57	11	0
8	Carlton Bailey	32	RILB	16	14	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2.5	68	47	21	0
9	Howard Griffith	29	FB	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	Gerald Williams	33	RDE	16	14	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.0	33	21	12	0
11	Brett Maxie	34	SS	13	13	1	35	0	35	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	48	39	9	0
12	Kerry Collins	24	QB	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB
13	Matt Elliott	28	LG/C	16	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Mike Fox	29	LDE	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	28	24	4	0
15	Anthony Johnson	29	RB	16	11	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Mark Dennis	31	RT/LT	16	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Frank Garcia	24	C/LG	14	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Les Miller	31	LDE	15	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	14	0	3.0	29	18	11	0
19	Steve Beuerlein	31	QB	8	4	0	0	0	0	0	9	2	-7	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Steve Lofton	28	DB	11	3	1	42	0	42	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10	8	2	0
21	Chad Cota	25	DB	16	2	5	63	0	35	0	1	1	0	0	1.0	42	31	11	0
22	Toi Cook	32	DB	15	1	3	28	0	22	2	0	1	3	0	4.0	29	19	10	0
23	Damon Pieri	26	DB	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	9	9	0	0
24	Walter Rasby	24	TE	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Rod Smith	26	DB	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	13	9	4	0
26	Myron Baker	25	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Michael Bates	27	RB	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-1
28	Duane Bickett	34	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	12	7	5	0
29	Tim Colston	23	NT	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
30	Tommy Jeter	27	DT	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
31	Shawn King	24	DE	16	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	12	1	3.0	18	13	5	0
32	Emmanuel McDaniel	24	DB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	1	0
33	Winslow Oliver	23	RB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
34	Andre Royal	24	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	6	3	3	0
35	Mark Thomas	27	DE	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	18	0	4.0	8	7	1	0
	Team Totals			16	16	22	277	0	42	17	25	26	151	3	60.0	842	640	202	0

Defense & Fumbles Table
						Def Interceptions					Fumbles						Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Carlton Bailey	32	RILB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	4	4	0
2	Eric Davis	28	LCB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	9	9	0	0
3	Mike Fox	29	LDE	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	7	5	2	0
4	Greg Kragen	34	NT	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	10	8	2	0
5	Lamar Lathon	29	ROLB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.0	11	10	1	0
6	Brett Maxie	34	SS	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	7	2	5	0
7	Sam Mills	37	LILB	2	2	2	34	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	23	17	6	0
8	Tyrone Poole	24	RCB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	12	11	1	0
9	Pat Terrell	28	FS	2	2	1	49	0	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	9	9	0	0
10	Gerald Williams	33	RDE	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	6	6	0	0
11	Willie Green	30	WR	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0			0
12	Kevin Greene	34	LOLB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	6	5	1	0
13	Anthony Johnson	29	RB	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0			0
14	Myron Baker	25	LB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
15	Duane Bickett	34	LB	1	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	1
16	Toi Cook	32	DB	1	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0
17	Chad Cota	25	DB	2	0	1	49	0	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	0	0
18	Les Miller	31	LDE	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0
19	Winslow Oliver	23	RB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0			0
20	Mark Rodenhauser	35	LS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	-37	0	0.0	0			0
21	Rod Smith	26	DB	2	0						0	0	0	0	0	0.0	4	4	0
	Team Totals			2	2	4	132	0	49	0	0	4	2	-37	0	2.0	118	95	23	0