Tom Matte

Thomas Roland Matte

Position: RB-QB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 214 lbs.

Born: June 14, 1939 in Pittsburgh, PA
College: Ohio St. (school history)
Drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the 1st round (7th overall) of the 1961 NFL Draft.
Drafted by the New York Titans in the 5th round (37th overall) of the 1961 AFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 63 (816th overall since 1950)
2-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)

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Fine Details · Last updated Nov 9, 2011 3:32PM

All-Time Rank: #729. Jay Novacek… #730. Greg Kragen… #731. Hanford Dixon… #732. TOM MATTE… #733. Don Colo… #734. Bill Glass… #735. William Thomas…

All-Time Rank: #729. Jay Novacek… #730. Greg Kragen… #731. Hanford Dixon… #732. TOM MATTE… #733. Don Colo… #734. Bill Glass… #735. William Thomas…

Rushing & Receiving

							Rushing							Receiving
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	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	AV
1961	22	BAL		27	8	0	13	54	0	11	4.2	6.8	1.6	1	8	8.0	0	8	0.1	1.0	62	0	0	1
1962	23	BAL	KR	41	14	0	74	226	2	29	3.1	16.1	5.3	8	81	10.1	1	22	0.6	5.8	307	3	2	3
1963	24	BAL	KR/HB	41	14	0	133	541	4	31	4.1	38.6	9.5	48	466	9.7	1	49	3.4	33.3	1007	5	2	8
1964	25	BAL		41	14	0	42	215	1	80	5.1	15.4	3.0	10	169	16.9	0	30	0.7	12.1	384	1	0	5
1965	26	BAL	qb	41	14	1	69	235	1	20	3.4	16.8	4.9	12	131	10.9	0	15	0.9	9.4	366	1	2	4
1966	27	BAL		41	14	0	86	381	0	30	4.4	27.2	6.1	23	307	13.3	3	35	1.6	21.9	688	3	2	7
1967	28	BAL	HB	41	14	0	147	636	9	30	4.3	45.4	10.5	35	496	14.2	3	88	2.5	35.4	1132	12	1	14
1968*	29	BAL	HB	41	14	0	183	662	9	23	3.6	47.3	13.1	25	275	11.0	1	50	1.8	19.6	937	10	2	12
1969*+	30	BAL	HB	41	14	0	235	909	11	26	3.9	64.9	16.8	43	513	11.9	2	49	3.1	36.6	1422	13	4	13
1970	31	BAL		41	2	0	12	43	0	16	3.6	21.5	6.0	1	2	2.0	0	2	0.5	1.0	45	0	0	0
1971	32	BAL	RB	41	14	0	173	607	8	26	3.5	43.4	12.4	29	239	8.2	0	34	2.1	17.1	846	8	4	10
1972	33	BAL		41	6	0	33	137	0	18	4.2	22.8	5.5	14	182	13.0	1	43	2.3	30.3	319	1	2	3
Career					142	1	1200	4646	45	80	3.9	32.7	8.5	249	2869	11.5	12	88	1.8	20.2	7515	57	21	80

Kick & Punt Returns

							Punt Returns					Kick Returns
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd
1961	22	BAL		27	8	0						2	50	0	30	25.0	112
1962	23	BAL	KR	41	14	0						27	613	0	42	22.7	920
1963	24	BAL	KR/HB	41	14	0						16	331	0	34	20.7	1338
1964	25	BAL		41	14	0						3	71	0	34	23.7	455
1965	26	BAL	qb	41	14	1						8	211	0	46	26.4	577
1966	27	BAL		41	14	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	3	55	0	31	18.3	743
1967	28	BAL	HB	41	14	0						1	14	0	14	14.0	1146
1968*	29	BAL	HB	41	14	0						1	22	0	22	22.0	959
1971	32	BAL	RB	41	14	0						1	0	0	0	0.0	846
Career					142	1	1	0	0	0	0.0	62	1367	0	46	22.0	8882

Passing

Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	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%
1962	23	BAL	KR	41	14	0		5	13	38.5	85	1	7.7	0	0.0	30	6.5	8.1	17.0	6.1	87.0
1963	24	BAL	KR/HB	41	14	0		1	5	20.0	20	0	0.0	0	0.0	20	4.0	4.0	20.0	1.4	43.7
1964	25	BAL		41	14	0		3	4	75.0	58	1	25.0	0	0.0	22	14.5	19.5	19.3	4.1	156.2
1965	26	BAL	qb	41	14	1	1-0-0	1	7	14.3	19	0	0.0	1	14.3	19	2.7	-3.7	19.0	1.4	0.0
1966	27	BAL		41	14	0		0	3	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	33.3	0	0.0	-15.0		0.0	0.0
1967	28	BAL	HB	41	14	0		1	5	20.0	18	0	0.0	0	0.0	18	3.6	3.6	18.0	1.3	42.1
1968*	29	BAL	HB	41	14	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
1969*+	30	BAL	HB	41	14	0		1	3	33.3	46	0	0.0	0	0.0	46	15.3	15.3	46.0	3.3	81.9	0	0	15.3	15.3	0.0
1971	32	BAL	RB	41	14	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	1	12	-6.0	-6.0	50.0
Career					142	1	1-0-0	12	42	28.6	246	2	4.8	2	4.8	46	5.9	4.7	20.5	1.7	47.5	1	12	5.4	4.3	2.3

Comeback and game-winning drive numbers are based on research by Scott Kacsmar, as described in parts I, II, and III on the blog.

Defense & Fumbles

								Def Interceptions					Fumbles					Tackles
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Sk	Int	Yds	TD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	TD	Tkl	Ast	Sfty
1962	23	BAL	KR	41	14	0							0	2	1	0	0
1963	24	BAL	KR/HB	41	14	0							0	2	0	0	0
1965	26	BAL	qb	41	14	1							0	2	0	0	0
1966	27	BAL		41	14	0							0	2	0	0	0
1967	28	BAL	HB	41	14	0							0	1	0	0	0
1968*	29	BAL	HB	41	14	0							0	2	0	0	0
1969*+	30	BAL	HB	41	14	0							0	4	0	0	0
1971	32	BAL	RB	41	14	0							0	4	1	0	0
1972	33	BAL		41	6	0							0	2	0	0	0
Career					142	1							0	21	2	0	0

Scoring Summary

Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	RshTD	RecTD	AllTD	Pts
1962	23	BAL	KR	41	14	0	2	1	3	18
1963	24	BAL	KR/HB	41	14	0	4	1	5	30
1964	25	BAL		41	14	0	1		1	6
1965	26	BAL	qb	41	14	1	1		1	6
1966	27	BAL		41	14	0		3	3	18
1967	28	BAL	HB	41	14	0	9	3	12	72
1968*	29	BAL	HB	41	14	0	9	1	10	60
1969*+	30	BAL	HB	41	14	0	11	2	13	78
1971	32	BAL	RB	41	14	0	8		8	48
1972	33	BAL		41	6	0		1	1	6
Career					142	1	45	12	57	342

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7	Doug Cunningham, Pete Banaszak, Dexter Carter, Phil King, Oscar Reed, Jerry Hill, Cullen Bryant, Blair Thomas, Ode Burrell, Gary Brown
8	Erric Pegram, Tom Tracy, Tony Richardson, Jim Otis, Roland Harper, Butch Woolfolk, Charles White, Lynn Cain, Cullen Bryant, Earnest Jackson
9	Essex Johnson, Dave Hampton, Marv Hubbard, Mike Anderson, Tommy Mason, Charlie H. Smith, Eddie Price, Tom Sullivan, Dominic Rhodes, Boobie Clark
10	Essex Johnson, Dave Hampton, Marv Hubbard, Mike Anderson, Charlie H. Smith, Joe Morris, Eddie Price, Tom Sullivan, Dominic Rhodes, Boobie Clark
11	Mercury Morris, Marv Hubbard, Rudi Johnson, Sherman Smith, Edgar Bennett, Tommy Mason, John Brockington, Essex Johnson, Curtis McClinton, Joe Cribbs
12	Mercury Morris, Tommy Mason, Stephen Davis, Marv Hubbard, James R. Jones, John Brockington, Donny Anderson, Rudi Johnson, Rickey Young, Joe Cribbs
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year Lg Value (Rank/All-Time)

Pro Bowls 1968 1969	First-Team All-Pro 1969	Rushing Att 1968 NFL 183 (7) 1969 NFL 235 (2) Career 1200 (116)	Rushing Yds 1968 NFL 662 (10) 1969 NFL 909 (3) Career 4646 (139)
Rushing TD 1967 NFL 9 (3) 1968 NFL 9 (3) 1969 NFL 11 (1) 1971 NFL 8 (5) Career 45 (79)	Long Rush 1964 NFL 80 (2/79)	Yds/Rushing Att 1967 NFL 4.3 (8)	Rushing Yds/Game 1969 NFL 64.9 (4)
Long Reception 1967 NFL 88 (3)	Touchdowns 1967 NFL 12 (3) 1968 NFL 10 (6) 1969 NFL 13 (1) Career 57 (158)	Points Scored 1969 NFL 78 (9)	Rushing/Receiving TD 1967 NFL 12 (3) 1968 NFL 10 (5) 1969 NFL 13 (1) Career 57 (153)
Yds From Scrimmage 1967 NFL 1132 (9) 1969 NFL 1422 (1) Career 7515 (195)	All-Purpose Yds 1963 NFL 1338 (6) 1969 NFL 1422 (3) Career 8882 (187)	Touches 1963 NFL 197 (8) 1968 NFL 209 (6) 1969 NFL 278 (1) Career 1512 (113)	Yds/Touch 1962 NFL 8.4 (4) 1963 NFL 6.8 (8) 1965 NFL 6.5 (4) 1966 NFL 6.6 (7) 1967 NFL 6.3 (9)
Kick Returns 1962 NFL 27 (7)	Kick Return Yds 1962 NFL 613 (8)	Kick & Punt Return Yds 1962 NFL 613 (10)

All-Pro Teams

Year	Team	Level	Voters
1969	1st Team	All-NFL	Associated Press
1969	2nd Team	All-NFL	UPI

Fantasy

Year	Age	G	FantPos	FantPt	VBD	PosRank	OvRank
1970	31	2	RB	5		123
1971	32	14	RB	133	14	18	62
1972	33	6	RB	38		68
				176	14

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