1972 New York Jets Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

New York Jets

7-7-0

2nd in AFC East

Scored 26.2 PPG (2nd)

Allowed 23.1 PPG (19th)

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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	367	4,787	825	5.8	2,010	461	4.4	2,930	347	8.4	17	153	250	106	117	27	72	687
Team Rank		2nd	2nd	19th	1st	13th	18th	7th	1st	16th	2nd	4th	20th	8th	15th	11th	3rd	13th	15th
Opponent	14	324	4,709	866	5.4	2,072	476	4.4	2,888	363	8.0	27	251	255	121	118	16	86	856
Opponent Rank		19th	22nd	18th	25th	18th	15th	19th	26th	17th	23rd	13th	15th	22nd	19th	21st	9th	2nd	2nd
Net		+43	+78	-41	+0.4	-62	-15	+0.0	+42	-16	+0.5	-10	-98	-5	-15	-1	+11	-14	-169
Net Rank		12th	14th	17th	9th	15th	16th	13th	14th	21st	9th	9th	19th	16th	18th	15th	4th	4th	3rd

1972 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Joe Namath	13	162	324	50.0	24.9	2,816	8.7	216.6	19	5.9	21	6.5	83	11	101	72.5
	Bob Davis	14	10	22	45.5	1.6	114	5.2	8.1	2	9.1	1	4.5	35	6	52	72.9
	Cliff McClain	13	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
	John Riggins	12	207	17.3	944	4.6	78.7	7	40	228	1,174
	Emerson Boozer	11	120	10.9	549	4.6	49.9	11	37	131	691
	Cliff McClain	13	59	4.5	305	5.2	23.5	0	30	65	393
	Steve Harkey	11	45	4.1	129	2.9	11.7	0	10	54	243
	Hank Bjorklund	7	15	2.1	42	2.8	6.0	0	10	19	96
	Bob Davis	14	6	0.4	32	5.3	2.3	0	20	6	32
	Joe Namath	13	6	0.5	8	1.3	0.6	0	2	6	8
	Rich Caster	14	2	0.1	6	3.0	0.4	0	6	41	839
	Eddie Bell	13	1	0.1	-5	-5.0	-0.4	0	-5	36	624

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Rich Caster	14	39		2.8	833	21.4	59.5	10	80	41	839
	Eddie Bell	13	35		2.7	629	18.0	48.4	2	83	36	624
	Don Maynard	14	29		2.1	510	17.6	36.4	2	41	29	510
	John Riggins	12	21		1.8	230	11.0	19.2	1	67	228	1,174
	Jerome Barkum	14	16		1.1	304	19.0	21.7	2	52	16	304
	Emerson Boozer	11	11		1	142	12.9	12.9	3	49	131	691
	Steve Harkey	11	9		0.8	114	12.7	10.4	0	24	54	243
	Cliff McClain	13	6		0.5	88	14.7	6.8	0	44	65	393
	Hank Bjorklund	7	4		0.6	54	13.5	7.7	0	35	19	96
	Wayne Stewart	14	2		0.1	26	13.0	1.9	1	22	2	26

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Steve Tannen	13							7	125	17.9	0	32
	Chris Farasopoulos	13							2	48	24	0	25
	Rich Sowells	11							2	14	7	0	14
	Ralph Baker	10							2	0	0	0	0
	W.K. Hicks	14							1	43	43	0	43
	Gus Hollomon	14							1	25	25	0	25
	Earlie Thomas	14							1	14	14	0	14
	Al Atkinson	13							1	7	7	0	7
	Paul Crane	8							1	4	4	0	4
	Mike Taylor	14							1	2	2	0	2

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Bobby Howfield	14	0	0	0	0	27	40		0	121
	Emerson Boozer	11	11	3	0	14	0	0		0	84
	Rich Caster	14	0	10	0	10	0	0		0	60
	John Riggins	12	7	1	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Jerome Barkum	14	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Eddie Bell	13	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Don Maynard	14	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Chris Farasopoulos	13	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Randy Rasmussen	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Wayne Stewart	14	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Chris Farasopoulos	13	26	179	10.5	1	65	17
	Phil Wise	9	9	0		0		0
	Rocky Turner	8	3	38	7.6	0	16	5
	Hank Bjorklund	7	7	0		0		0
	W.K. Hicks	14	4	25	8.3	0	20	3
	Cliff McClain	13	2	0		0		0
	Roy Kirksey	10	2	0		0		0
	Matt Snell	4	1	0		0		0
	Bill Zapalac	6	1	0		0		0
	Jerome Barkum	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
	Bobby Howfield	14	27	37	73.0	7-8	7-7	11-15	2-7	0-0	40	41	97.6	121

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Steve O'Neal	14	51	2,006	39.3	57	1