1972 Pittsburgh Steelers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Pittsburgh Steelers

11-3-0

1st in AFC Central

Scored 24.5 PPG (5th)

Allowed 12.5 PPG (2nd)

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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	343	4,231	853	5.0	2,520	497	5.1	1,958	324	6.0	32	247	228	131	79	18	81	728
Team Rank		5th	13th	12th	11th	2nd	11th	1st	24th	19th	25th	17th	9th	18th	3rd	24th	13th	21st	20th
Opponent	14	175	3,771	896	4.2	1,715	445	3.9	2,393	411	5.8	40	337	228	88	116	24	77	712
Opponent Rank		2nd	8th	25th	1st	6th	10th	7th	13th	26th	4th	4th	24th	13th	4th	18th	22nd	10th	7th
Net		+168	+460	-43	+0.8	+805	+52	+1.2	-435	-87	+0.2	-8	-90	0	+43	-37	-6	+4	+16
Net Rank		2nd	8th	18th	4th	2nd	9th	1st	23rd	23rd	12th	10th	17th	15th	3rd	24th	18th	14th	15th

1972 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	147	308	47.7	22	1,887	6.1	134.8	12	3.9	12	3.9	78	29	237	64.1
	Joe Gilliam	2	7	11	63.6	5.5	48	4.4	24.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	9	2	8	73.3
	Terry Hanratty	7	2	4	50.0	0.6	23	5.8	3.3	0	0.0	0	0.0	14	1	2	67.7
	Bobby Walden	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
	Franco Harris	14	188	13.4	1,055	5.6	75.4	10	75	209	1,235
	John Fuqua	13	150	11.5	665	4.4	51.2	4	47	168	817
	Preston Pearson	11	67	6.1	264	3.9	24.0	0	21	78	343
	Terry Bradshaw	14	58	4.1	346	6.0	24.7	7	20	58	346
	Steve Davis	11	20	1.8	85	4.3	7.7	1	28	21	90
	Warren Bankston	7	7	1	20	2.9	2.9	0	11	8	25
	Frank Lewis	13	3	0.2	68	22.7	5.2	0	41	30	459
	Joe Gilliam	2	2	1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	2	0
	Rocky Bleier	14	1	0.1	17	17.0	1.2	0	17	1	17
	John McMakin	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	22	277

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ron Shanklin	14	38		2.7	669	17.6	47.8	3	57	38	669
	Frank Lewis	13	27		2.1	391	14.5	30.1	5	52	30	459
	John McMakin	14	21		1.5	277	13.2	19.8	1	78	22	277
	Franco Harris	14	21		1.5	180	8.6	12.9	1	29	209	1,235
	John Fuqua	13	18		1.4	152	8.4	11.7	0	28	168	817
	Preston Pearson	11	11		1	79	7.2	7.2	0	15	78	343
	Dave Smith	6	10		1.7	98	9.8	16.3	0	25	10	98
	Al Young	14	6		0.4	86	14.3	6.1	0	33	6	86
	Larry Brown	9	1		0.1	13	13.0	1.4	1	13	1	13
	Warren Bankston	7	1		0.1	5	5.0	0.7	0	5	8	25
	Steve Davis	11	1		0.1	5	5.0	0.5	0	5	21	90
	Gerry Mullins	14	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
	Jack Ham	14							7	83	11.9	1	32
	Mike Wagner	14							6	77	12.8	0	35
	John Rowser	14							4	30	7.5	0	23
	Mel Blount	14							3	75	25	0	34
	Ralph Anderson	14							3	68	22.7	0	41
	Henry Davis	14							2	32	16	0	28
	Chuck Beatty	8							2	16	8	0	16
	Glen Edwards	12							1	14	14	0	14

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Roy Gerela	14	0	0	0	0	28	35		0	119
	Franco Harris	14	10	1	0	11	0	0		0	66
	Terry Bradshaw	14	7	0	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Frank Lewis	13	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	John Fuqua	13	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Ron Shanklin	14	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Mel Blount	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Larry Brown	9	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Henry Davis	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Steve Davis	11	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Jack Ham	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	John McMakin	14	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Gerry Mullins	14	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Ralph Anderson	14	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Glen Edwards	12	1	202	9.2	0	54	22
	Preston Pearson	11	13	3	3.0	0	3	1
	Franco Harris	14	8	0		0		0
	Steve Davis	11	7	0		0		0
	Rocky Bleier	14	2	1	0.5	0	1	2
	Warren Bankston	7	1	0		0		0
	John McMakin	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	28	41	68.3	9-9	8-10	8-12	3-9	0-1	35	36	97.2	119

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Bobby Walden	14	65	2,846	43.8	72	2
	Roy Gerela	14	1	29	29.0	29	0