1972 Detroit Lions Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Detroit Lions

8-5-1

2nd in NFC Central

Scored 24.2 PPG (6th)

Allowed 20.7 PPG (17th)

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1972 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	339	4,155	804	5.2	2,021	473	4.3	2,283	305	7.5	26	149	240	120	97	23	48	417
Team Rank		6th	15th	23rd	6th	12th	14th	8th	15th	21st	6th	12th	22nd	10th	6th	22nd	5th	1st	1st
Opponent	14	290	4,208	824	5.1	2,204	491	4.5	2,146	312	6.9	21	142	239	126	103	10	86	703
Opponent Rank		17th	19th	7th	20th	21st	18th	23rd	7th	4th	16th	23rd	3rd	16th	22nd	8th	2nd	2nd	9th
Net		+49	-53	-20	+0.1	-183	-18	-0.2	+137	-7	+0.6	+5	+7	+1	-6	-6	+13	-38	-286
Net Rank		10th	16th	15th	14th	18th	17th	16th	11th	18th	7th	17th	11th	14th	13th	18th	3rd	1st	1st

1972 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Greg Landry	14	134	268	50.0	19.1	2,066	7.7	147.6	18	6.7	17	6.3	82	25	149	71.8
	Bill Munson	2	20	35	57.1	17.5	194	5.5	97.0	1	2.9	1	2.9	29	1	0	70.4
	Earl McCullouch	10	1	1	100.0	0.1	23	23.0	2.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	23	0	0	118.8
	Ron Jessie	14	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Altie Taylor	13	154	11.8	658	4.3	50.6	4	38	183	908
	Steve Owens	10	143	14.3	519	3.6	51.9	4	18	158	619
	Greg Landry	14	81	5.8	524	6.5	37.4	9	38	81	524
	Mel Farr	10	62	6.2	216	3.5	21.6	3	22	72	348
	Bill Triplett	14	17	1.2	48	2.8	3.4	0	9	17	48
	Nick Eddy	2	8	4	28	3.5	14.0	0	10	10	74
	Mickey Zofko	14	7	0.5	28	4.0	2.0	0	9	9	42
	Bill Munson	2	1	0.5	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Altie Taylor	13	29		2.2	250	8.6	19.2	2	40	183	908
	Charlie Sanders	9	27		3	416	15.4	46.2	2	38	27	416
	Larry Walton	14	24		1.7	485	20.2	34.6	6	48	24	485
	Ron Jessie	14	24		1.7	424	17.7	30.3	4	82	24	424
	Steve Owens	10	15		1.5	100	6.7	10.0	0	15	158	619
	Mel Farr	10	10		1	132	13.2	13.2	0	42	72	348
	Craig Cotton	14	8		0.6	129	16.1	9.2	1	35	8	129
	John Hilton	5	5		1	133	26.6	26.6	1	66	5	133
	Earl McCullouch	10	5		0.5	96	19.2	9.6	1	33	5	96
	Al Barnes	9	4		0.4	58	14.5	6.4	1	17	4	58
	Nick Eddy	2	2		1	46	23.0	23.0	1	36	10	74
	Mickey Zofko	14	2		0.1	14	7.0	1.0	0	17	9	42

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Lem Barney	14							3	88	29.3	0	64
	Rudy Redmond	14							2	91	45.5	1	88
	Wayne Rasmussen	7							2	1	0.5	0	1
	Mike Lucci	14							2	0	0	0	0
	Paul Naumoff	14							1	4	4	0	4
	Jim Mitchell	14							1	0	0	0	0
	Charlie Weaver	14							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Errol Mann	14	0	0	0	0	20	38		0	98
	Greg Landry	14	9	0	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Altie Taylor	13	4	2	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Larry Walton	14	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Ron Jessie	14	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Steve Owens	10	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Mel Farr	10	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Charlie Sanders	9	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Al Barnes	9	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Craig Cotton	14	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Nick Eddy	2	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	John Hilton	5	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Earl McCullouch	10	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Rudy Redmond	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Mickey Zofko	14	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	1

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Mickey Zofko	14	26	0		0		0
	Ron Jessie	14	23	0		0		0
	Lem Barney	14	1	108	7.2	0	26	15
	Bill Triplett	14	1	0		0		0
	Herb Orvis	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
	Errol Mann	14	20	29	69.0	3-3	4-4	9-11	3-10	1-1	38	39	97.4	98

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Herman Weaver	14	43	1,734	40.3	55	0