1971 Pittsburgh Steelers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Pittsburgh Steelers

6-8-0

2nd in AFC Central

Scored 17.6 PPG (17th)

Allowed 20.9 PPG (17th)

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1971 Regular Season Team Stats

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	SCK	SCKY	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	14	246	3,882	867	4.5	1,758	416	4.2	2,446	414	5.9	37	322	226	98	111	17	88	898
Team Rank		17th	17th	7th	19th	13th	20th	9th	12th	5th	23rd	21st	6th	14th	15th	11th	11th	23rd	23rd
Opponent	14	292	4,248	881	4.8	1,482	440	3.4	3,060	408	7.5	33	294	225	81	132	12	81	784
Opponent Rank		17th	18th	22nd	16th	5th	9th	3rd	26th	23rd	25th	8th	19th	11th	6th	26th	3rd	8th	11th
Net		-46	-366	-14	-0.3	+276	-24	+0.9	-614	+6	-1.6	+4	+28	+1	+17	-21	+5	+7	+114
Net Rank		16th	20th	13th	19th	12th	17th	6th	24th	11th	24th	18th	10th	12th	8th	24th	6th	17th	23rd

1971 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Terry Bradshaw	14	203	373	54.4	26.6	2,259	6.1	161.4	13	3.5	22	5.9	49	33	287	59.7
	Terry Hanratty	6	7	29	24.1	4.8	159	5.5	26.5	2	6.9	3	10.3	40	3	32	33.3
	Bob Leahy	1	3	11	27.3	11	18	1.6	18.0	0	0.0	1	9.1	9	1	3	1.7
	Bobby Walden	14	1	1	100.0	0.1	10	10.0	0.7	0	0.0	0	0.0	10	0	0	108.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	John Fuqua	12	155	12.9	625	4.0	52.1	4	30	204	1,052
	Preston Pearson	14	131	9.4	605	4.6	43.2	0	29	151	851
	Warren Bankston	14	70	5	274	3.9	19.6	0	30	87	422
	Terry Bradshaw	14	53	3.8	247	4.7	17.6	5	39	53	247
	Ron Shanklin	14	2	0.1	1	0.5	0.1	0	2	51	653
	Bobby Walden	14	1	0.1	14	14.0	1.0	0	14	1	14
	Jon Staggers	14	1	0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	5	9	108
	Terry Hanratty	6	1	0.2	3	3.0	0.5	1	3	1	3
	Bob Leahy	1	1	1	-6	-6.0	-6.0	0	-6	1	-6
	Dave Smith	14	1	0.1	-10	-10.0	-0.7	0	-10	48	653

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ron Shanklin	14	49		3.5	652	13.3	46.6	6	42	51	653
	John Fuqua	12	49		4.1	427	8.7	35.6	1	40	204	1,052
	Dave Smith	14	47		3.4	663	14.1	47.4	5	49	48	653
	Preston Pearson	14	20		1.4	246	12.3	17.6	2	41	151	851
	Bob Adams	14	20		1.4	160	8.0	11.4	0	21	20	160
	Warren Bankston	14	17		1.2	148	8.7	10.6	0	31	87	422
	Jon Staggers	14	8		0.6	103	12.9	7.4	0	20	9	108
	Frank Lewis	9	3		0.3	44	14.7	4.9	0	22	3	44
	Larry Brown	13	1		0.1	3	3.0	0.2	1	3	1	3

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	John Rowser	12							4	94	23.5	1	70
	Chuck Allen	10							3	45	15	0	29
	Mike Wagner	12							2	53	26.5	0	27
	Mel Blount	14							2	16	8	0	16
	Jack Ham	14							2	4	2	0	4
	Lee Calland	13							2	0	0	0	0
	Glen Edwards	8							1	20	20	0	20
	Ralph Anderson	7							1	14	14	0	14

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Roy Gerela	14	0	0	0	0	17	27		0	78
	Ron Shanklin	14	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Terry Bradshaw	14	5	0	0	5	0	0		0	30
	John Fuqua	12	4	1	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Dave Smith	14	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Preston Pearson	14	0	2	1	3	0	0		0	18
	Larry Brown	13	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Terry Hanratty	6	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	John Rowser	12	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Jon Staggers	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Jon Staggers	14	10	262	8.5	1	67	31
	Jim Brumfield	14	12	0		0		0
	Glen Edwards	8	9	0	0.0	0	0	1
	Preston Pearson	14	7	0		0		0
	Warren Bankston	14	5	0		0		0
	Mel Blount	14	4	0		0		0
	Rocky Bleier	6	1	0		0	0	0
	Jim Clack	14	1	0		0		0

Kicking

		GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Roy Gerela	14	17	27	63.0	5-6	5-7	4-7	3-6	0-1	27	27	100.0	78

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Bobby Walden	14	79	3,455	43.7	57	0