league highest safety per game in a season

Joe Stepanek has the most safeties per game played in his rookie season in 1987, with 1.

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	NAME	SFTY/GP	SFTY	GP	SEASON	TM	TKL	AST	COMB	SCK	SCKY	INT	INT YDS	INT TD	FF	FR	FR TD
1	Joe Stepanek J. Stepanek	1	1	1	1987	MIN				0.0		0	0	0		0	0
2	Dick Anderson D. Anderson	0.5	1	2	1967	NO						0	0	0		0	0
3	Scott Schutt S. Schutt	0.33	1	3	1987	CIN				1.0		0	0	0		0	0
4	Alex Wright A. Wright	0.25	1	4	2024	CLE	5	3	8	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Matthew Judon M. Judon	0.25	1	4	2023	NE	10	3	13	4.0	25	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Kenny Onatolu K. Onatolu	0.25	1	4	2012	CAR	2	3	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Lemar Marshall L. Marshall	0.25	1	4	2007	CIN	6	2	8	1.0	6	0	0	0	1	0	0
8	Tommie Stowers T. Stowers	0.25	1	4	1993	NO				0.0		0	0	0		0	0
9	Jim Thaxton J. Thaxton	0.2	1	5	1978	STL						0	0	0		0	0
10	Charley Mehelich C. Mehelich	0.2	1	5	1951	PIT						0	0	0		1	0
11	Willie Wilkin W. Wilkin	0.18	2	11	1942	WAS						0	0	0			0
12	Sam Beal S. Beal	0.17	1	6	2019	NYG	20	6	26	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Eric Lee E. Lee	0.17	1	6	2017	NE	10	9	19	3.5	23.5	1	8	0	0	0	0
14	LaVar Arrington L. Arrington	0.17	1	6	2006	NYG	14	2	16	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Robb Riddick R. Riddick	0.17	1	6	1987	BUF				0.0		0	0	0		1	0
16	Bill Malinchak B. Malinchak	0.17	1	6	1972	WAS						0	0	0		1	0
17	George Schmidt G. Schmidt	0.17	1	6	1953	CHC						0	0	0		0	0
18	Jay MacDowell J. MacDowell	0.17	1	6	1946	PHI						0	0	0		1	0
19	Urban Odson U. Odson	0.17	1	6	1946	GB						0	0	0		1	0
20	Rod Stephens R. Stephens	0.15	2	13	1993	SEA				2.5		0	0	0		1	1
21	James Young J. Young	0.15	2	13	1977	HOU						0	0	0		0	0
22	Josh Scobey J. Scobey	0.14	1	7	2007	TOT	4	0	4	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Sean Smith S. Smith	0.14	1	7	1989	TOT				1.0		0	0	0		0	0
24	Don Blackmon D. Blackmon	0.14	2	14	1985	NE				8.0		1	14	0		2	0
25	John Harty J. Harty	0.14	1	7	1985	SF				0.0		0	0	0		0	0

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