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Record: 5-11-0, Finished 4th in NFC Central Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 290 points (18.1/g), 24th of 31 in the NFL.
Allowed 390 points (24.4/g), 26th.
Differential of -100 points (-6.2/g), 28th.
Expected W-L: 5.3-10.7.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -21 (-1.3/g), 31st.
Coached by Mike Tice (0-1-0) and Dennis Green (5-10-0)
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2001 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 | September 9 | box | L | 0-1 | Carolina Panthers | 13 | 24 | 19 | 343 | 234 | 109 | 5 | 15 | 291 | 200 | 91 | 2 | |
| 2 | Sun | September 23 | box | L | 0-2 | @ | Chicago Bears | 10 | 17 | 19 | 319 | 215 | 104 | 2 | 15 | 284 | 237 | 47 | 1 |
| 3 | Sun | September 30 | box | W | 1-2 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 20 | 16 | 25 | 402 | 312 | 90 | 2 | 20 | 331 | 223 | 108 | 1 | |
| 4 | Sun | October 7 | box | L | 1-3 | @ | New Orleans Saints | 15 | 28 | 16 | 340 | 306 | 34 | 3 | 20 | 370 | 210 | 160 | 1 |
| 5 | Sun | October 14 | box | W | 2-3 | Detroit Lions | 31 | 26 | 23 | 343 | 198 | 145 | 1 | 28 | 457 | 328 | 129 | 1 | |
| 6 | Sun | October 21 | box | W | 3-3 | Green Bay Packers | 35 | 13 | 23 | 377 | 177 | 200 | 2 | 10 | 234 | 160 | 74 | 1 | |
| 7 | Sun | October 28 | box | L | 3-4 | @ | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 14 | 41 | 11 | 195 | 130 | 65 | 1 | 26 | 446 | 269 | 177 | 1 |
| 8 | Bye Week | ||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Sun | November 11 | box | L | 3-5 | @ | Philadelphia Eagles | 17 | 48 | 16 | 301 | 245 | 56 | 4 | 33 | 487 | 215 | 272 | 1 |
| 10 | Mon | November 19 | box | W | 4-5 | New York Giants | 28 | 16 | 24 | 359 | 263 | 96 | 3 | 18 | 358 | 297 | 61 | 2 | |
| 11 | Sun | November 25 | box | L | 4-6 | Chicago Bears | 6 | 13 | 15 | 316 | 192 | 124 | 1 | 11 | 235 | 93 | 142 | 1 | |
| 12 | Sun | December 2 | box | L | 4-7 | @ | Pittsburgh Steelers | 16 | 21 | 12 | 385 | 340 | 45 | 3 | 21 | 364 | 157 | 207 | 2 |
| 13 | Sun | December 9 | box | W | 5-7 | Tennessee Titans | 42 | 24 | 24 | 496 | 348 | 148 | 1 | 24 | 453 | 271 | 182 | 2 | |
| 14 | Sun | December 16 | box | L | 5-8 | @ | Detroit Lions | 24 | 27 | 16 | 314 | 234 | 80 | 2 | 19 | 369 | 202 | 167 | 1 |
| 15 | Sun | December 23 | box | L | 5-9 | Jacksonville Jaguars | 3 | 33 | 16 | 214 | 186 | 28 | 2 | 23 | 423 | 209 | 214 | ||
| 16 | Sun | December 30 | box | L | 5-10 | @ | Green Bay Packers | 13 | 24 | 19 | 302 | 103 | 199 | 3 | 13 | 213 | 157 | 56 | 1 |
| 17 | Mon | January 7 | box | L | 5-11 | @ | Baltimore Ravens | 3 | 19 | 10 | 179 | 93 | 86 | 4 | 16 | 351 | 139 | 212 | |
| Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pts | Yds | Ply | Y/P | 1stD | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | 1stD | Att | Yds | TD | 1stD | TO | FL | 1stPy | |||
| Team Offense | 290 | 5185 | 978 | 5.3 | 288 | 335 | 555 | 3576 | 23 | 23 | 5.9 | 179 | 376 | 1609 | 10 | 4.3 | 88 | 39 | 16 | 21 |
| Team Defense | 390 | 5666 | 985 | 5.8 | 497 | 291 | 478 | 3367 | 16 | 8 | 6.6 | 166 | 477 | 2299 | 21 | 4.8 | 312 | 18 | 10 | 19 |
| Lg Rank Offense | 24 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 27 | 13 | 28 | 25 | 20 | 10 | 30 | 27 | ||||||
| Lg Rank Defense | 26 | 27 | 21 | 5 | 18 | 7 | 31 | 28 | 24 | 30 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 24 | ||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | QBrec | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Sk | Yds | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daunte Culpepper | 24 | QB | 11 | 11 | 4-7-0 | 235 | 366 | 64.2 | 2612 | 14 | 3.8 | 13 | 3.6 | 57 | 7.1 | 5.9 | 11.1 | 237.5 | 83.3 | 33 | 186 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 8.3 |
| Spergon Wynn | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0-2-0 | 48 | 98 | 49.0 | 418 | 1 | 1.0 | 6 | 6.1 | 47 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 8.7 | 139.3 | 38.6 | 10 | 65 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 9.3 | |
| Todd Bouman | 29 | 5 | 3 | 1-2-0 | 51 | 89 | 57.3 | 795 | 8 | 9.0 | 4 | 4.5 | 80 | 8.9 | 7.8 | 15.6 | 159.0 | 98.3 | 4 | 27 | 8.3 | 7.2 | 4.3 | |
| Mitch Berger | 29 | P | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 39.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Randy Moss | 24 | WR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 29 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 29 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 1.8 | 118.7 | 0 | 0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 0.0 | |
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 5-11-0 | 335 | 555 | 60.4 | 3854 | 23 | 4.1 | 23 | 4.1 | 80 | 6.9 | 5.5 | 11.5 | 240.9 | 77.9 | 47 | 278 | 5.9 | 4.6 | 7.8 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 291 | 478 | 60.9 | 3367 | 16 | 3.3 | 8 | 1.7 | 7.0 | 6.6 | 11.6 | 210.4 | 86.3 | 30 | 204 | 6.6 | 5.8 |
| Rushing | Receiving | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | |||||||
| Michael Bennett | 23 | RB | 13 | 13 | 172 | 682 | 2 | 31 | 4.0 | 52.5 | 13.2 | 29 | 226 | 7.8 | 1 | 80 | 2.2 | 17.4 | 908 | 3 | 0 |
| Daunte Culpepper | 24 | QB | 11 | 11 | 71 | 416 | 5 | 34 | 5.9 | 37.8 | 6.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 416 | 5 | 16 |
| Doug Chapman | 24 | 16 | 3 | 63 | 195 | 0 | 19 | 3.1 | 12.2 | 3.9 | 16 | 135 | 8.4 | 1 | 38 | 1.0 | 8.4 | 330 | 1 | 1 | |
| Jim Kleinsasser | 24 | FB | 11 | 11 | 23 | 72 | 1 | 11 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 2.1 | 24 | 184 | 7.7 | 0 | 18 | 2.2 | 16.7 | 256 | 1 | 2 |
| Travis Prentice | 25 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1 | 10 | 10.0 | 0 | 10 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 23 | 2 | 1 | |
| Harold Morrow | 28 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 67 | 0 | 15 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 13 | 142 | 10.9 | 0 | 28 | 0.8 | 8.9 | 209 | 0 | 1 | |
| Todd Bouman | 29 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 61 | 0 | 21 | 6.8 | 12.2 | 1.8 | 61 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Spergon Wynn | 23 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 61 | 0 | 14 | 7.6 | 20.3 | 2.7 | 61 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||
| Randy Moss | 24 | WR | 16 | 16 | 3 | 38 | 0 | 18 | 12.7 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 82 | 1233 | 15.0 | 10 | 73 | 5.1 | 77.1 | 1271 | 10 | 0 |
| Cris Carter | 36 | WR | 16 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4.0 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 73 | 871 | 11.9 | 6 | 52 | 4.6 | 54.4 | 875 | 6 | 2 |
| Byron Chamberlain* | 30 | TE | 16 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 57 | 666 | 11.7 | 3 | 47 | 3.6 | 41.6 | 666 | 3 | 1 | |
| Jake Reed | 34 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27 | 309 | 11.4 | 1 | 27 | 1.7 | 19.3 | 309 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Chris Walsh | 33 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9 | 67 | 7.4 | 0 | 19 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 67 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Andrew Jordan | 29 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 11 | 3.7 | 1 | 4 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 376 | 1609 | 10 | 34 | 4.3 | 100.6 | 23.5 | 335 | 3854 | 11.5 | 23 | 80 | 20.9 | 240.9 | 5463 | 33 | 35 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 477 | 2299 | 21 | 4.8 | 143.7 | 29.8 | 291 | 3367 | 11.6 | 16 | 18.2 | 210.4 | 5666 | 37 | 22 | |||||
| Punt Returns | Kick Returns | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | APYd | |||
| Nate Jacquet | 26 | RET | 10 | 0 | 29 | 219 | 0 | 23 | 7.6 | 46 | 1012 | 0 | 53 | 22.0 | 1231 |
| Troy Walters | 25 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 69 | 0 | 16 | 6.3 | 18 | 425 | 0 | 50 | 23.6 | 494 | |
| Don Morgan | 26 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 4.3 | 4 | 78 | 0 | 24 | 19.5 | 95 | |
| Harold Morrow | 28 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 109 | 0 | 28 | 18.2 | 318 | ||||||
| Chris Walsh | 33 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 | 79 | |
| Travis Prentice | 25 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | 25 | ||||||
| Shawn Worthen | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 11.0 | 11 | ||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 45 | 307 | 0 | 23 | 6.8 | 77 | 1647 | 0 | 53 | 21.4 | 7417 | ||
| Opp Total | 16 | 34 | 0 | 59 | 1266 | 1 | 21.5 | ||||||||
| 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 | XPA | XPM | Pnt | Yds | Lng | Blck | ||||
| Gary Anderson | 42 | K | 16 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 83.3% | 30 | 29 | 96.7% | |||||||||
| Mitch Berger | 29 | P | 12 | 0 | 47 | 2046 | 67 | 0 | 43.5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Lee Johnson | 40 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 983 | 59 | 0 | 39.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 83.3% | 30 | 29 | 96.7% | 72 | 3029 | 67 | 0 | 42.1 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 38 | 33 | 86.8% | 39 | 39 | 100.0% | 72 | 2902 | 40.3 | |||||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Tackles | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | Pos | G | GS | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | PD | FF | Fmb | FR | Yds | TD | Tkl | Ast | Sfty | |
| Daunte Culpepper | 24 | QB | 11 | 11 | 16 | 7 | -17 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Talance Sawyer | 25 | RDE/lde | 16 | 16 | 5.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 20 | |
| Chris Hovan | 23 | RDT | 16 | 16 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 15 | |
| Nate Jacquet | 26 | RET | 10 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Lance Johnstone | 28 | rde | 16 | 5 | 5.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 9 | |
| Harold Morrow | 28 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Kailee Wong | 25 | MLB | 16 | 16 | 3.0 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 27 | 4 | 83 | 16 | ||||||
| Doug Chapman | 24 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Lemanski Hall | 31 | LLB | 16 | 13 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 14 | |
| Spergon Wynn | 23 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | -2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Patrick Chukwurah | 22 | 16 | 3 | 2.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | |||||||
| Cris Carter | 36 | WR | 16 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Tyrone Carter | 25 | fs | 15 | 7 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 45 | 5 | |
| Byron Chamberlain* | 30 | TE | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Stalin Colinet | 27 | LDE | 11 | 11 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | |
| Winfield Garnett | 25 | 12 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 7 | |||||||
| Robert Griffith | 31 | SS | 10 | 9 | 2 | 25 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 16 | ||
| Eric Kelly | 24 | RCB | 16 | 11 | 2 | -7 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 15 | ||
| Jim Kleinsasser | 24 | FB | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Ed McDaniel | 32 | RLB | 14 | 13 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 16 | |
| Travis Prentice | 25 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Fred Robbins | 24 | LDT | 16 | 12 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 10 | ||||||
| Troy Walters | 25 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Brad Badger | 26 | LT | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Michael Bennett | 23 | RB | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Todd Bouman | 29 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| David Dixon | 32 | RG | 15 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Don Morgan | 26 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| Jim Nelson | 26 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 22 | 16 | ||||||||
| Orlando Thomas | 29 | FS | 13 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 45 | 16 | |||||||
| Chris Walsh | 33 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 30.0 | 8 | 47 | 1 | 27 | 69 | 14 | 35 | 28 | 26 | 1 | 693 | 221 | |||
| Opp Total | 16 | 47 | 22 | 12 | ||||||||||||||
| Age | Pos | G | GS | RshTD | RecTD | PR TD | KR TD | FblTD | IntTD | OthTD | 2PM | XPM | FGM | Sfty | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Anderson | 42 | K | 16 | 0 | 29 | 15 | 74 | |||||||||
| Randy Moss | 24 | WR | 16 | 16 | 10 | 60 | ||||||||||
| Cris Carter | 36 | WR | 16 | 16 | 6 | 36 | ||||||||||
| Daunte Culpepper | 24 | QB | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 34 | |||||||||
| Michael Bennett | 23 | RB | 13 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 18 | |||||||||
| Byron Chamberlain* | 30 | TE | 16 | 15 | 3 | 18 | ||||||||||
| Travis Prentice | 25 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |||||||||||
| Jake Reed | 34 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Tyrone Carter | 25 | fs | 15 | 7 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Doug Chapman | 24 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Andrew Jordan | 29 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Jim Kleinsasser | 24 | FB | 11 | 11 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Kailee Wong | 25 | MLB | 16 | 16 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Team Total | 27.3 | 16 | 10 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 290 | ||||||
| Opp Total | 16 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 39 | 33 | 390 |