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Record: 12-4-0, Finished 2nd in AFC West Division
NFL Season Summary
1997 Super Bowl Champions
Scored 472 points (29.5/g), 1st of 30 in the NFL.
Allowed 287 points (17.9/g), 6th.
Differential of 185 points (11.6/g), 1st.
Expected W-L: 12.2-3.8.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +10 (0.6/g), 4th.
Coached by Mike Shanahan (12-4-0)
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1997 Statistics / Starters & Roster / Games & Schedule / Team Draftees
| Score | Offense | Defense | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Date | Rec | Opp | Tm | Opp | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | 1stD | TotYd | PassY | RushY | TO | |||
| 1 | Sun | August 31 | W | 1-0 | Kansas City Chiefs | 19 | 3 | 20 | 378 | 232 | 146 | 12 | 241 | 108 | 133 | 1 | ||
| 2 | Sun | September 7 | W | 2-0 | @ | Seattle Seahawks | 35 | 14 | 22 | 331 | 188 | 143 | 1 | 16 | 289 | 220 | 69 | 1 |
| 3 | Sun | September 14 | W | 3-0 | St. Louis Rams | 35 | 14 | 19 | 377 | 233 | 144 | 2 | 18 | 314 | 184 | 130 | 2 | |
| 4 | Sun | September 21 | W | 4-0 | Cincinnati Bengals | 38 | 20 | 23 | 372 | 150 | 222 | 1 | 22 | 389 | 194 | 195 | 1 | |
| 5 | Sun | September 28 | W | 5-0 | @ | Atlanta Falcons | 29 | 21 | 16 | 329 | 228 | 101 | 1 | 17 | 308 | 196 | 112 | 1 |
| 6 | Mon | October 6 | W | 6-0 | New England Patriots | 34 | 13 | 25 | 380 | 188 | 192 | 2 | 13 | 262 | 211 | 51 | 2 | |
| 7 | Bye Week | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun | October 19 | L | 6-1 | @ | Oakland Raiders | 25 | 28 | 25 | 441 | 294 | 147 | 1 | 12 | 324 | 81 | 243 | 2 |
| 9 | Sun | October 26 | W | 7-1 | @ | Buffalo Bills | 23 | 20 | 17 | 341 | 116 | 225 | 3 | 19 | 315 | 160 | 155 | 6 |
| 10 | Sun | November 2 | W | 8-1 | Seattle Seahawks | 30 | 27 | 19 | 385 | 245 | 140 | 2 | 22 | 349 | 245 | 104 | 2 | |
| 11 | Sun | November 9 | W | 9-1 | Carolina Panthers | 34 | 0 | 20 | 393 | 233 | 160 | 1 | 7 | 147 | 113 | 34 | 4 | |
| 12 | Sun | November 16 | L | 9-2 | @ | Kansas City Chiefs | 22 | 24 | 26 | 329 | 194 | 135 | 1 | 15 | 202 | 96 | 106 | 1 |
| 13 | Mon | November 24 | W | 10-2 | Oakland Raiders | 31 | 3 | 23 | 370 | 260 | 110 | 1 | 14 | 260 | 150 | 110 | 2 | |
| 14 | Sun | November 30 | W | 11-2 | @ | San Diego Chargers | 38 | 28 | 28 | 438 | 240 | 198 | 22 | 269 | 222 | 47 | 2 | |
| 15 | Sun | December 7 | L | 11-3 | @ | Pittsburgh Steelers | 24 | 35 | 18 | 320 | 231 | 89 | 1 | 22 | 476 | 290 | 186 | 2 |
| 16 | Mon | December 15 | L | 11-4 | @ | San Francisco 49ers | 17 | 34 | 15 | 237 | 141 | 96 | 3 | 18 | 323 | 265 | 58 | 1 |
| 17 | Sun | December 21 | W | 12-4 | San Diego Chargers | 38 | 3 | 24 | 451 | 321 | 130 | 1 | 9 | 203 | 133 | 70 | 1 | |
| Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||
| WildCard | Sat | December 27 | W | 13-4 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 42 | 17 | |||||||||||
| Division | Sun | January 4 | W | 14-4 | @ | Kansas City Chiefs | 14 | 10 | ||||||||||
| ConfChamp | Sun | January 11 | W | 15-4 | @ | Pittsburgh Steelers | 24 | 21 | ||||||||||
| SuperBowl | Sun | January 25 | W | 16-4 | N | Green Bay Packers | 31 | 24 | ||||||||||
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 472 | 5872 | 1068 | 5.5 | 340 | 287 | 513 | 3494 | 27 | 11 | 6.4 | 172 | 520 | 2378 | 18 | 4.6 | 138 | 21 | 10 | 30 |
| Team Defense | 287 | 4671 | 951 | 4.9 | 433 | 290 | 526 | 2868 | 20 | 18 | 5.0 | 145 | 381 | 1803 | 10 | 4.7 | 258 | 31 | 13 | 30 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 6 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 30 | 9 | 13 | ||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Elway* | 37 | QB | 16 | 16 | 280 | 502 | 55.8 | 3635 | 27 | 5.4 | 11 | 2.2 | 78 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 13.0 | 227.2 | 87.5 | 34 | 203 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 6.3 |
| Bubby Brister | 35 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 66.7 | 48 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 15 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 8.0 | 48.0 | 79.9 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 0.0 | |
| Jeff Lewis | 24 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 50.0 | 21 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 21 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 21.0 | 7.0 | 87.5 | 1 | 7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 33.3 | |
| Team Total | 28.3 | 16 | 287 | 513 | 55.9 | 3704 | 27 | 5.3 | 11 | 2.1 | 78 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 12.9 | 231.5 | 87.4 | 35 | 210 | 6.4 | 6.0 | 6.4 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 290 | 526 | 55.1 | 2868 | 20 | 3.8 | 18 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 9.9 | 179.3 | 69.2 | 44 | 298 | 5.0 | 3.4 |
| Rushing | Receiving | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| Terrell Davis*+ | 25 | RB | 15 | 15 | 369 | 1750 | 15 | 50 | 4.7 | 116.7 | 24.6 | 42 | 287 | 6.8 | 0 | 25 | 2.8 | 19.1 | 2037 | 15 | 4 |
| John Elway* | 37 | QB | 16 | 16 | 50 | 218 | 1 | 23 | 4.4 | 13.6 | 3.1 | 218 | 1 | 11 | |||||||
| Vaughn Hebron | 27 | RET | 16 | 1 | 49 | 222 | 1 | 46 | 4.5 | 13.9 | 3.1 | 3 | 36 | 12.0 | 0 | 21 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 258 | 1 | 1 |
| Derek Loville | 29 | 16 | 0 | 25 | 124 | 1 | 17 | 5.0 | 7.8 | 1.6 | 2 | 10 | 5.0 | 0 | 7 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 134 | 1 | 1 | |
| Howard Griffith | 30 | FB | 15 | 13 | 9 | 34 | 0 | 9 | 3.8 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 11 | 55 | 5.0 | 0 | 20 | 0.7 | 3.7 | 89 | 0 | 0 |
| Rod Smith | 27 | WR | 16 | 16 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 21 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 70 | 1180 | 16.9 | 12 | 78 | 4.4 | 73.8 | 1196 | 12 | 3 |
| Jeff Lewis | 24 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Detron Smith | 23 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 2.5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 4 | 41 | 10.3 | 1 | 17 | 0.3 | 2.6 | 51 | 1 | 0 | |
| Bubby Brister | 35 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Shannon Sharpe*+ | 29 | TE | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 72 | 1107 | 15.4 | 3 | 68 | 4.5 | 69.2 | 1107 | 3 | 1 | |
| Ed McCaffrey | 29 | WR | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 45 | 590 | 13.1 | 8 | 35 | 3.0 | 39.3 | 590 | 8 | 0 | |
| Willie Green | 31 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 19 | 240 | 12.6 | 2 | 31 | 1.2 | 15.0 | 240 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Dwayne Carswell | 25 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12 | 96 | 8.0 | 1 | 24 | 0.8 | 6.0 | 96 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Patrick Jeffers | 24 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 24 | 8.0 | 0 | 10 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 24 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Byron Chamberlain | 26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 9 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 18 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Anthony Lynn | 29 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 21 | 21.0 | 0 | 21 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Tom Nalen* | 26 | C | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | 0 | -1 | 0.1 | -0.1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Team Total | 28.3 | 16 | 520 | 2378 | 18 | 50 | 4.6 | 148.6 | 32.5 | 287 | 3704 | 12.9 | 27 | 78 | 17.9 | 231.5 | 6082 | 45 | 25 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 381 | 1803 | 10 | 4.7 | 112.7 | 23.8 | 290 | 2868 | 9.9 | 20 | 18.1 | 179.3 | 4671 | 30 | 27 | |||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| Vaughn Hebron | 27 | RET | 16 | 1 | 43 | 1009 | 0 | 46 | 23.5 | 1267 | |||||
| Darrien Gordon | 27 | RCB | 16 | 16 | 40 | 543 | 3 | 94 | 13.6 | 543 | |||||
| Derek Loville | 29 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 136 | 0 | 61 | 27.2 | 270 | ||||||
| Keith Burns | 25 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 45 | 0 | 18 | 11.3 | 45 | ||||||
| Byron Chamberlain | 26 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 13.0 | 31 | ||||||
| Detron Smith | 23 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 51 | ||||||
| Rod Smith | 27 | WR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 12.0 | 1208 | |||||
| Team Total | 28.3 | 16 | 41 | 555 | 3 | 94 | 13.5 | 54 | 1203 | 0 | 61 | 22.3 | 7840 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 26 | 1 | 89 | 1827 | 0 | 20.5 | ||||||||
| Kicking | Punting | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | FGA | FGM | XPA | XPM | Pnt | Yds | Lng | Blck | ||||
| Jason Elam | 27 | K | 15 | 0 | 36 | 26 | 72.2% | 46 | 46 | 100.0% | |||||
| Tom Rouen | 29 | P | 16 | 0 | 60 | 2598 | 57 | 0 | 43.3 | ||||||
| Scott Bentley | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 66.7% | 4 | 4 | 100.0% | ||||||
| Team Total | 28.3 | 16 | 39 | 28 | 71.8% | 50 | 50 | 100.0% | 60 | 2598 | 57 | 0 | 43.3 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 19 | 14 | 73.7% | 35 | 35 | 100.0% | 94 | 4089 | 43.5 | |||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| Darrien Gordon | 27 | RCB | 16 | 16 | 2.0 | 4 | 64 | 1 | 32 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 11 | ||
| John Elway* | 37 | QB | 16 | 16 | 11 | 1 | -21 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Alfred Williams | 29 | RDE | 16 | 16 | 8.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 51 | 1 | 36 | 10 | ||||||
| Neil Smith* | 31 | LDE | 14 | 13 | 8.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 5 | ||||||
| Maa Tanuvasa | 27 | rdt | 15 | 5 | 8.5 | 17 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Tyrone Braxton | 33 | SS | 16 | 16 | 0.5 | 4 | 113 | 1 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 45 | 0 | 62 | 17 | ||
| Terrell Davis*+ | 25 | RB | 15 | 15 | 4 | 2 | -7 | 0 | ||||||||||
| John Mobley+ | 24 | RLB | 16 | 16 | 4.0 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 36 | ||
| Steve Atwater | 31 | FS | 15 | 15 | 1.0 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 15 | ||
| Ray Crockett | 30 | LCB | 16 | 16 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 14 | |||
| Rod Smith | 27 | WR | 16 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Bill Romanowski | 31 | LLB | 16 | 16 | 2.0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 14 | ||
| Keith Traylor | 28 | LDT | 16 | 16 | 2.0 | 1 | 62 | 1 | 62 | 28 | 11 | |||||||
| Vaughn Hebron | 27 | RET | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mike Lodish | 30 | 16 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | |||||||
| Ed McCaffrey | 29 | WR | 15 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Tim McKyer | 34 | 16 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | |||
| Trevor Pryce | 22 | 8 | 3 | 2.0 | 16 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Harald Hasselbach | 30 | 16 | 3 | 1.5 | 14 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Dwayne Carswell | 25 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Byron Chamberlain | 26 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Dedrick Dodge | 30 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
| Howard Griffith | 30 | FB | 15 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Darrius Johnson | 24 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Derek Loville | 29 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mark Schlereth | 31 | LG | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Shannon Sharpe*+ | 29 | TE | 16 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Tony Veland | 24 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
| David Richie | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | ||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 28.3 | 16 | 43.0 | 18 | 319 | 5 | 62 | 11 | 25 | 25 | 74 | 2 | 612 | 185 | ||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 35 | 27 | 14 | ||||||||||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Elam | 27 | K | 15 | 0 | 46 | 26 | 124 | |||||||||
| Terrell Davis*+ | 25 | RB | 15 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 96 | |||||||||
| Rod Smith | 27 | WR | 16 | 16 | 12 | 72 | ||||||||||
| Ed McCaffrey | 29 | WR | 15 | 15 | 8 | 48 | ||||||||||
| Darrien Gordon | 27 | RCB | 16 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 24 | |||||||||
| Shannon Sharpe*+ | 29 | TE | 16 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 20 | |||||||||
| Willie Green | 31 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Scott Bentley | 23 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Steve Atwater | 31 | FS | 15 | 15 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Tyrone Braxton | 33 | SS | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Dwayne Carswell | 25 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| John Elway* | 37 | QB | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Vaughn Hebron | 27 | RET | 16 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Darrius Johnson | 24 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Derek Loville | 29 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| John Mobley+ | 24 | RLB | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Detron Smith | 23 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Keith Traylor | 28 | LDT | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Alfred Williams | 29 | RDE | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Team Total | 28.3 | 16 | 18 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 50 | 28 | 472 | |||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 10 | 20 | 1 | 35 | 14 | 287 |