1973 Pittsburgh Steelers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Pittsburgh Steelers

10-4-0

2nd in AFC Central

Scored 24.8 PPG (4th)

Allowed 15.0 PPG (8th)

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1973 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	347	4,070	894	4.6	2,143	555	3.9	2,157	309	7.0	30	230	217	111	89	17	84	817
Team Rank		4th	11th	7th	14th	8th	3rd	17th	15th	18th	8th	10th	16th	18th	10th	20th	11th	23rd	23rd
Opponent	14	210	3,324	880	3.8	1,652	488	3.4	1,923	359	5.4	33	251	210	95	91	24	86	737
Opponent Rank		8th	4th	18th	3rd	5th	9th	4th	4th	18th	3rd	10th	13th	7th	6th	6th	24th	3rd	8th
Net		+137	+746	+14	+0.8	+491	+67	+0.5	+234	-50	+1.6	-3	-21	+7	+16	-2	-7	-2	+80
Net Rank		4th	6th	9th	5th	6th	6th	6th	7th	21st	4th	9th	15th	11th	8th	17th	22nd	13th	17th

1973 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	10	89	180	49.4	18	1,183	6.6	118.3	10	5.6	15	8.3	67	24	186	54.5
	Terry Hanratty	9	31	69	44.9	7.7	643	9.3	71.4	8	11.6	5	7.2	53	3	27	86.8
	Joe Gilliam	5	20	60	33.3	12	331	5.5	66.2	2	3.3	6	10.0	46	3	17	24.4

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Franco Harris	12	188	15.7	698	3.7	58.2	3	35	198	767
	Preston Pearson	14	132	9.4	554	4.2	39.6	2	47	143	727
	John Fuqua	11	117	10.6	457	3.9	41.5	2	25	134	607
	Steve Davis	14	67	4.8	266	4.0	19.0	2	27	74	297
	Terry Bradshaw	10	34	3.4	145	4.3	14.5	3	21	34	145
	Joe Gilliam	5	6	1.2	23	3.8	4.6	0	14	6	23
	Ron Shanklin	13	3	0.2	1	0.3	0.1	0	10	33	712
	Rocky Bleier	12	3	0.3	0	0.0	0.0	0	1	3	0
	Terry Hanratty	9	3	0.3	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	3	0
	Bobby Walden	14	1	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	1	0
	Frank Lewis	9	1	0.1	-1	-1.0	-0.1	0	-1	24	408

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ron Shanklin	13	30		2.3	711	23.7	54.7	10	67	33	712
	Frank Lewis	9	23		2.6	409	17.8	45.4	3	53	24	408
	Barry Pearson	14	23		1.6	317	13.8	22.6	3	46	23	317
	John Fuqua	11	17		1.5	150	8.8	13.6	0	22	134	607
	John McMakin	14	13		0.9	195	15.0	13.9	1	44	13	195
	Preston Pearson	14	11		0.8	173	15.7	12.4	2	36	143	727
	Franco Harris	12	10		0.8	69	6.9	5.8	0	19	198	767
	Steve Davis	14	7		0.5	31	4.4	2.2	1	9	74	297
	Larry Brown	14	5		0.4	88	17.6	6.3	0	45	5	88
	Dave Davis	2	1		0.5	14	14.0	7.0	0	14	1	14

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Mike Wagner	14							8	134	16.8	0	38
	Glen Edwards	14							6	186	31	1	86
	John Rowser	14							6	131	21.8	1	71
	Mel Blount	14							4	82	20.5	0	24
	Andy Russell	14							3	54	18	1	45
	Jack Ham	13							2	30	15	0	27
	Henry Davis	14							2	23	11.5	0	15
	Loren Toews	14							2	13	6.5	0	8
	Dwight White	14							2	10	5	0	8
	J.T. Thomas	14							1	10	10	0	10
	John Dockery	10							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Roy Gerela	14	0	0	0	0	29	36		0	123
	Ron Shanklin	13	0	10	0	10	0	0		0	60
	Preston Pearson	14	2	2	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Terry Bradshaw	10	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Steve Davis	14	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Franco Harris	12	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Frank Lewis	9	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Barry Pearson	14	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	John Fuqua	11	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Glen Edwards	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Jack Ham	13	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	John McMakin	14	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	John Rowser	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Andy Russell	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Mike Wagner	14	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Dwight White	14	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	2

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Glen Edwards	14	1	336	9.9	0	44	34
	Preston Pearson	14	16	0		0		0
	Steve Davis	14	15	0		0		0
	Rocky Bleier	12	3	0		0	0	0
	Franco Harris	12	1	0		0		0
	John Fuqua	11	1	0		0		0
	Craig Hanneman	14	1	0		0		0
	George Webster	12	1	0		0		0
	Ray Mansfield	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	29	43	67.4	9-10	10-12	5-9	5-12	0-0	36	37	97.3	123

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Bobby Walden	14	62	2,548	41.1	57	1