1999 New Orleans Saints season

The 1999 New Orleans Saints season was the Saints 33rd season. The Saints drafted Ricky Williams with their first round pick, which was their only pick of the 1999 NFL Draft.

NFL Draft
With the only pick in the draft the New Orleans Saints selected RB Ricky Williams out of the University of Texas with the fifth pick in the first round.

Roster
C Tom Ackerman LB  Ink Aleaga CB  Ashley Ambrose P  Tommy Barnhardt WR  Brett Bech LB Chris Bordano K  Doug Brien S  Je'Rod Cherry LB  Phil Clarke S  Willie Clay TE Cameron Cleeland RB  Aaron Craver RB  Troy Davis WR  Lawrence Dawsey QB  Jake Delhomme CB Tyronne Drakeford LB  Mark Fields C  Jerry Fontenot WR  P. J. Franklin C  Kendall Gammon DT La'Roi Glover DT  Mike Halapin DE  Uhuru Hamiter CB  Corey Harris WR  Andre Hastings S Chris Hewitt QB  Billy Joe Hobert T  Clarence Jones S  Rob Kelly WR  Eddie Kennison S Sammy Knight S  Earl Little DT  Wayne Martin DE  Darren Mickell LB  Keith Mitchell LB Kevin Mitchell CB  Alex Molden G  Chris Naeole DT  Robert Newkirk RB  Wilmont Perry RB Dino Philyaw WR  Keith Poole RB  Marvin Powell T  Willie Roaf DT  Austin Robbins TE Scott Slutzker DE  Brady Smith RB  Lamar Smith LB  Vinson Smith T  Daryl Terrell QB Billy Joe Tolliver DE/DT  Jared Tomich T  Kyle Turley CB  Fred Weary DE  Willie Whitehead TE/FB Josh Wilcox RB  Ricky Williams C  Wally Williams LB/DE  Troy Wilson QB  Danny Wuerffel

Passing
Billy Joe Hobert 85 159 53.5 970 6.10 6 6 68.9

Billy Joe Tolliver 139 268 51.9 1916 7.15 7 16 58.9

Jake Delhomme 42 76 55.3 521 6.86 3 5 62.4 Danny Wuerffel 22 48 45.8 191 3.98 0 3 30.8

Rushing
Ricky Williams 253 884 3.5 2

Lamar Smith 60 205 3.4 0

Wilmont Perry 48 180 3.8 0

Aaron Craver 17 40 2.4 0

Troy Davis 20 32 1.6 0

Receiving
Eddie Kennison 61 835 13.7 4

Keith Poole 42 796 19.0 6

Andre Hastings 40 564 14.1 1

Ricky Williams 28 172 6.1 0

Cameron Cleeland 26 325 12.5 1

Lamar Smith 20 151 7.6 1

Aaron Craver 19 154 8.1 0

Lawrence Dawsey 16 196 12.3 1

Scott Slutzker 11 164 14.9 1

Troy Davis 7 53 7.6 0

Josh Wilcox 6 61 10.2 0

Brett Bech 4 65 16.3 1

Wilmont Perry 4 26 6.5 0

Dino Philyaw 2 23 11.5 0

P. J. Franklin 2 13 6.5 0

Kick Returns
Dino Philyaw 53 1165 22.0 0

Troy Davis 20 424 21.2 0

Lawrence Dawsey 1 20 20.0 0

Brett Bech 1 12 12.0 0

Kendall Gammon 1 9 9.0 0

Wilmont Perry 2 6 3.0 0

Aaron Craver 1 3 3.0 0

Punt Returns
Eddie Kennison 35 258 7.4 0

Punting
Tommy Barnhardt 82 3262 39.8 0

Kicking
Doug Brien 20 21 95 24 29 82.8 92

Interceptions
Ashley Ambrose 6 27 4.5 0

Willie Clay 3 32 10.7 0

Keith Mitchell 3 22 7.3 0

Fred Weary 2 49 24.5 0

Mark Fields 2 0 0.0 0

Rob Kelly 1 6 6.0 0

Alex Molden 1 2 2.0 0

Sammy Knight 1 0 0.0 0

Sacks
La'Roi Glover 8.5

Willie Whitehead 7.0

Brady Smith 6.0

Troy Wilson 5.5

Wayne Martin 4.5

Mark Fields 4.0

Keith Mitchell 3.5

Jared Tomich 3.0

Austin Robbins 2.0

Chris Hewitt 1.0