1987 Dallas Cowboys Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 7-8-0, 2nd in NFC East Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Tom Landry (7-8-0)

Points For: 340 (22.7/g) 11th of 28

Points Against: 348 (23.2/g) 18th of 28

Expected W-L: 7.3-7.7

SRS: -2.00 (19th of 28), SOS: -1.47

Defensive Coordinator: Ernie Stautner

Other Notable Asst.: Neill Armstrong (Quality Control), Paul Hackett (PGC), Dick Nolan (Defensive Backs) and Mike Solari (Assistant Offensive Line/ST)

Stadium: Texas Stadium

Principal Owner: Harvey Bright

President/General Manager: Tex Schramm

Defensive Alignment: 4-3

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +1500

Training Camp: California Lutheran College (Thousand Oaks, California)

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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	340	5056	1017	5.0	40	20	293	288	500	3191	19	20	5.8	176	465	1865	17	4.0	93	131	1091	24
Opp. Stats	348	5061	1012	5.0	43	20	294	269	502	3444	21	23	6.2	175	459	1617	19	3.5	85	100	851	34
Lg Rank Offense	11	11			22	23	14		12	11	17	17	14		17	16	5	14
Lg Rank Defense	18	20			6	6	16		22	27	12	6	21		13	6	27	3

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 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		0-1	@	St. Louis Cardinals	13	24	19	322	197	125	1	20	360	252	108		-7.19	-6.16	0.93
2	Sun	September 20	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-1	@	New York Giants	16	14	21	356	242	114	4	14	265	205	60	5	-20.43	17.21	10.88
4	Sun	October 4	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-1	@	New York Jets	38	24	14	246	132	114	4	22	241	159	82	5	1.16	20.02	-7.63
5	Sun	October 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-1		Philadelphia Eagles	41	22	19	400	240	160	2	24	434	362	72	3	6.16	6.74	2.22
6	Mon	October 19	9:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-2		Washington Redskins	7	13	18	316	223	93	3	19	339	153	186	3	-10.62	5.55	0.16
7	Sun	October 25	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-3	@	Philadelphia Eagles	20	37	18	294	197	97	3	18	237	96	141	1	-15.25	-3.38	-0.47
8	Mon	November 2	9:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-3		New York Giants	33	24	15	240	214	26	2	16	297	242	55	5	-16.29	18.10	7.55
9	Sun	November 8	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		4-4	@	Detroit Lions	17	27	20	290	167	123	5	20	293	217	76	4	-24.25	8.41	5.68
10	Sun	November 15	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W	OT	5-4	@	New England Patriots	23	17	24	438	257	181	3	15	265	177	88	2	-3.10	8.69	1.06
11	Sun	November 22	8:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-5		Miami Dolphins	14	20	16	319	134	185	3	21	440	258	182	1	-0.66	-15.11	4.94
12	Thu	November 26	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	5-6		Minnesota Vikings	38	44	23	403	291	112	5	27	476	288	188	2	-1.32	-5.29	1.67
13	Sun	December 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-7		Atlanta Falcons	10	21	24	354	263	91	3	18	364	253	111	4	-5.14	-2.52	0.46
14	Sun	December 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-8	@	Washington Redskins	20	24	25	428	341	87	2	15	317	249	68	2	-0.75	-1.54	-2.86
15	Mon	December 21	9:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-8	@	Los Angeles Rams	29	21	20	365	171	194		19	311	237	74	4	0.29	14.54	-0.54
16	Sun	December 27	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-8		St. Louis Cardinals	21	16	17	285	122	163		26	422	296	126	2	3.31	2.61	-1.85

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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
1	Danny White	35	QB	11	9	3-6-0	215	362	59.4	2617	12	3.3	17	4.7	132	42.1	43	7.2	5.8	12.2	237.9	73.2	44	353	10.84	5.58	4.3	3	3
2	Steve Pelluer	25	QB	12	4	2-2-0	55	101	54.5	642	3	3.0	2	2.0	31	40.6	44	6.4	6.1	11.7	53.5	75.6	5	35	4.72	5.73	5.4	0	0
3	Kevin Sweeney	24	QB	3	2	2-0-0	14	28	50.0	291	4	14.3	1	3.6	10	35.5	77	10.4	11.6	20.8	97.0	111.8	3	15	9.68	8.90	10.0	0	0
4	Loren Snyder	24	QB	2	0		4	9	44.4	44	0	0.0	0	0.0	3	33.3	22	4.9	4.9	11.0	22.0	59.5	0	0	0.00	4.89	4.9	0	0
	Team Totals			15	15	7-8-0	288	500	57.6	3191	19	3.8	20	4.0	176	41.3	77	6.4	5.34	11.1	212.7	72.7	52	403	9.42	5.78	4.84	3	3

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	Herschel Walker	25	RB	12	11	209	891	7	43	42.6	60	4.3	74.3	17.4	87	60	715	11.9	1	33	51.7	44	5.0	59.6	69.0	8.2	269	6.0	1606	8	4	PB,AP-2
2	Mike Renfro	32	WR	14	11	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	81	46	662	14.4	4	37	53.1	43	3.3	47.3	56.8	8.2	46	14.4	662	4	1
3	Tony Dorsett	33	RB	12	6	130	456	1	20	42.3	24	3.5	38.0	10.8	30	19	177	9.3	1	5	36.7	33	1.6	14.8	63.3	5.9	149	4.2	633	2	3
4	Kelvin Edwards	23	WR	13	9	2	61	1	1	50.0	62	30.5	4.7	0.2	66	34	521	15.3	3	28	43.9	38	2.6	40.1	51.5	7.9	36	16.2	582	4	1
5	Doug Cosbie	31	TE	12	12	1	-5	0	0	0.0	-5	-5.0	-0.4	0.1	62	36	421	11.7	3	21	50.0	30	3.0	35.1	58.1	6.8	37	11.2	416	3	0
6	Timmy Newsome	29	FB	11	8	25	121	2	8	52.0	24	4.8	11.0	2.3	48	34	274	8.1	2	15	39.6	30	3.1	24.9	70.8	5.7	59	6.7	395	4	1
7	Gordon Banks	29	WR	5	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	26	15	231	15.4	1	11	50.0	34	3.0	46.2	57.7	8.9	15	15.4	231	1	1
8	Cornell Burbage	22	WR	3	2	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	12	7	168	24.0	2	6	50.0	77	2.3	56.0	58.3	14.0	7	24.0	168	2	0
9	Rod Barksdale	25	WR	12	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	32	12	165	13.8	1	9	31.3	22	1.0	13.8	37.5	5.2	12	13.8	165	1	0
10	Steve Pelluer	25	QB	12	4	25	142	1	7	64.0	21	5.7	11.8	2.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			25	5.7	142	1	0
11	Alvin Blount	22	RB	2	2	46	125	3	9	45.7	15	2.7	62.5	23.0	2	1	5	5.0	0	0	0.0	5	0.5	2.5	50.0	2.5	47	2.8	130	3	1
12	Kelvin Martin	22	WR	7	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	6	5	103	20.6	0	5	83.3	33	0.7	14.7	83.3	17.2	5	20.6	103	0	1
13	David Adams	23	RB	3	0	7	49	1	2	71.4	27	7.0	16.3	2.3	2	1	8	8.0	0	0	50.0	8	0.3	2.7	50.0	4.0	8	7.1	57	1	2
14	Gerald White	23	RB	3	3	1	-4	0	0	0.0	-4	-4.0	-1.3	0.3	9	5	46	9.2	0	2	55.6	14	1.7	15.3	55.6	5.1	6	7.0	42	0	0
15	Sebron Spivey	23	WR	2	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	2	34	17.0	0	1	100.0	25	1.0	17.0	100.0	17.0	2	17.0	34	0	0
16	Thornton Chandler	24	TE	12	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	7	5	25	5.0	1	1	57.1	9	0.4	2.1	71.4	3.6	5	5.0	25	1	0
17	E.J. Jones	25	RB	3	0	2	7	0	0	0.0	5	3.5	2.3	0.7	4	3	16	5.3	0	0	0.0	10	1.0	5.3	75.0	4.0	5	4.6	23	0	0
18	Danny White	35	QB	11	9	10	14	1	2	20.0	8	1.4	1.3	0.9	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			10	1.4	14	1	9
19	Chuck Scott	24	WR	2	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	1	11	11.0	0	1	50.0	11	0.5	5.5	50.0	5.5	1	11.0	11	0	0
20	Kevin Sweeney	24	QB	3	2	5	8	0	0	0.0	5	1.6	2.7	1.7	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			5	1.6	8	0	0
21	Todd Fowler	25	TE	12	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	1	6	6.0	0	0	0.0	6	0.1	0.5	50.0	3.0	1	6.0	6	0	0
22	Robert Lavette	24	RB	4	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	2	1	6	6.0	0	1	50.0	6	0.3	1.5	50.0	3.0	1	6.0	6	0	0
23	Rich Borresen	23	TE	3	3	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
24	Loren Snyder	24	QB	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	1.0	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			2	0.0	0	0	1
	Team Totals			15	15	465	1865	17	92	43.4	62	4.0	124.3	31.0	483	288	3594	12.5	19	176	46.8	77	19.2	239.6	59.6	7.4	753	7.2	5459	36	25

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Defense & Fumbles

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						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	Too Tall Jones	36	LDE	15	14	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	10.0	0	0	0	0
2	Randy White	34	RDT	15	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	0	0	0	0
3	Kevin Brooks	24	LDT	13	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
4	Michael Downs	28	FS	12	12	4	56	0	27	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
5	Jim Jeffcoat	26	RDE	12	12	1	26	1	26	1	0	2	8	0	5.0	44	44	0	0
6	Tom Rafferty	33	C	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	Jeff Rohrer	29	RLB	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
8	Everson Walls	28	LCB	12	12	5	38	0	30	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
9	Bill Bates	26	SS	12	11	3	28	0	28	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	81	81	0	0
10	Ron Francis	23	RCB	11	11	2	18	1	18	1	0	1	2	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Mike Renfro	32	WR	14	11	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Herschel Walker	25	RB	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-2
13	Kevin Gogan	23	RT	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Mike Hegman	34	LLB	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
15	Kelvin Edwards	23	WR	13	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Eugene Lockhart	26	MLB	9	9	1	13	0	13	0	0	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
17	Danny White	35	QB	11	9	0	0	0	0	0	9	3	-7	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Timmy Newsome	29	FB	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Mark Tuinei	27	LT	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Tony Dorsett	33	RB	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
21	Gordon Banks	29	WR	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	Chris Duliban	24	LB	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
23	Mike Dwyer	24	DT	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
24	Alex Green	22	DB	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Tommy Haynes	24	DB	3	3	3	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
26	Dale Jones	24	LB	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	26	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Bob White	24	C	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Robert Williams	25	DB	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Alvin Blount	22	RB	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
30	Ron Burton	23	LB	12	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
31	Steve DeOssie	25	LB	11	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	26	26	0	0
32	Kevin Sweeney	24	QB	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
33	Manny Hendrix	23	DB	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
34	Jesse Penn	25	LB	11	1	1	21	0	21	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
35	Ray Perkins	23	DE	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
36	David Adams	23	RB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
37	Darryl Clack	24	RB	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
38	Walt Johnson	22	DT	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
39	George Lilja	29	C	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
40	Bruce Livingston	24	DB	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
41	Kelvin Martin	22	WR	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
42	Danny Noonan	22	DT	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
43	Victor Scott	25	DB	6	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
44	Loren Snyder	24	QB	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
45	Mark Walen	24	DT	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
46	Randy Watts	24	DE	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3.0	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			15	15	23	208	2	30	9	30	30	32	0	50.0	151	151	0	0

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