A detailed analysis is made of the reactions of 14 MeV neutrons with 5yC0 and 93Nb. The quantum mechanical reaction theory of Feshbach and co-workers has been used to analyse the emission spectra for the (n, nx), (n, px) and (p, nx) multistep compound reactions. Acceptable fits are obtained to the energy spectra provided the contributions from the (n, 2n) and (n, pn) reactions, also calculated with the statistical multistep compound formalism, are added at low outgoing energies. The cross sections in all open channels are calculated and compared with experiment.