1978 Minnesota Vikings Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Minnesota Vikings

8-7-1

1st in NFC Central

Scored 18.4 PPG (12th)

Allowed 19.1 PPG (20th)

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1978 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	16	294	4,779	1,127	4.2	1,536	505	3.0	3,528	592	6.0	30	285	308	102	176	30	113	817
Team Rank		12th	17th	1st	25th	28th	28th	28th	2nd	1st	26th	7th	14th	7th	25th	1st	4th	20th	8th
Opponent	16	306	4,806	1,034	4.6	2,116	559	3.8	2,917	442	6.6	33	227	278	120	137	21	110	1,013
Opponent Rank		20th	14th	14th	17th	10th	11th	12th	19th	19th	15th	15th	6th	12th	12th	19th	9th	11th	5th
Net		-12	-27	+93	-0.4	-580	-54	-0.7	+611	+150	-0.6	-3	+58	+30	-18	+39	+9	+3	-196
Net Rank		13th	15th	5th	25th	26th	20th	27th	6th	1st	23rd	13th	11th	7th	20th	1st	5th	17th	5th

1978 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Fran Tarkenton	16	345	572	60.3	35.8	3,468	6.1	216.8	25	4.4	32	5.6	58	27	254	68.9
	Tommy Kramer	4	5	16	31.3	4	50	3.1	12.5	0	0.0	1	6.3	19	1	11	15.1
	Bob Lee	3	2	4	50.0	1.3	10	2.5	3.3	0	0.0	1	25.0	6	2	20	16.7

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Chuck Foreman	14	237	16.9	749	3.2	53.5	5	21	298	1,145
	Rickey Young	16	134	8.4	417	3.1	26.1	1	16	222	1,121
	Robert Miller	15	70	4.7	213	3.0	14.2	3	19	92	443
	Fran Tarkenton	16	24	1.5	-6	-0.3	-0.4	1	15	24	-6
	Sammy Johnson	3	11	3.7	41	3.7	13.7	0	17	11	41
	Mark Kellar	16	11	0.7	34	3.1	2.1	0	5	14	29
	Brent McClanahan	13	10	0.8	26	2.6	2.0	0	22	12	37
	Sammy White	16	5	0.3	30	6.0	1.9	0	16	58	771
	Greg Coleman	9	2	0.2	22	11.0	2.4	0	17	2	22
	Tommy Kramer	4	1	0.3	10	10.0	2.5	0	10	1	10

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Rickey Young	16	88		5.5	704	8.0	44.0	5	48	222	1,121
	Ahmad Rashad	16	66		4.1	769	11.7	48.1	8	58	66	769
	Chuck Foreman	14	61		4.4	396	6.5	28.3	2	20	298	1,145
	Sammy White	16	53		3.3	741	14.0	46.3	9	33	58	771
	Bob Tucker	16	47		2.9	540	11.5	33.8	0	35	47	540
	Robert Miller	15	22		1.5	230	10.5	15.3	0	29	92	443
	Stu Voigt	15	4		0.3	52	13.0	3.5	0	27	4	52
	Steve Craig	16	4		0.3	31	7.8	1.9	0	9	4	31
	Mark Kellar	16	3		0.2	-5	-1.7	-0.3	0	8	14	29
	Brent McClanahan	13	2		0.2	11	5.5	0.8	0	7	12	37
	Kevin Miller	16	1		0.1	35	35.0	2.2	1	35	1	35
	Harry Washington	10	1		0.1	24	24.0	2.4	0	24	1	24

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Bobby Bryant	16							7	69	9.9	0	23
	Nate Wright	16							5	58	11.6	0	30
	Matt Blair	16							3	28	9.3	0	20
	Phil Wise	16							2	21	10.5	0	14
	Fred McNeill	16							2	1	0.5	0	1
	Tom Hannon	16							2	0	0	0	0
	John Turner	14							1	15	15	0	15

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Rick Danmeier	16	0	0	0	0	12	36		0	72
	Sammy White	16	0	9	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Ahmad Rashad	16	0	8	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Chuck Foreman	14	5	2	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Rickey Young	16	1	5	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Robert Miller	15	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Matt Blair	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Fred McNeill	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Kevin Miller	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Fran Tarkenton	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Kevin Miller	16	40	239	5.0	0	47	48
	Harry Washington	10	4	0		0		0
	Sammy White	16	3	0	0.0	0	0	1
	Brent McClanahan	13	3	0		0		0
	Robert Miller	15	2	0		0	0	0
	Mark Kellar	16	1	0		0		0
	Rickey Young	16	1	0		0		0
	Steve Craig	16	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
	Rick Danmeier	16	12	19	63.2	1-1	4-5	3-5	4-8	0-0	36	37	97.3	72

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Greg Coleman	9	51	1,991	39.0	61	1
	Mike Wood	7	31	1,100	35.5	47	2