1979 Denver Broncos Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Denver Broncos

10-6-0

2nd in AFC West

Scored 18.1 PPG (20th)

Allowed 16.4 PPG (5th)

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1979 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	289	5,142	1,044	4.9	2,036	525	3.9	3,433	476	7.2	43	327	306	130	149	27	116	996
Team Rank		20th	12th	14th	12th	18th	16th	18th	11th	12th	11th	19th	11th	11th	10th	13th	9th	25th	24th
Opponent	16	262	4,852	1,033	4.7	1,693	502	3.4	3,321	512	6.5	19	162	273	100	146	27	118	1,033
Opponent Rank		5th	10th	11th	11th	1st	5th	1st	19th	26th	8th	28th	1st	9th	3rd	13th	19th	3rd	2nd
Net		+27	+290	+11	+0.2	+343	+23	+0.5	+112	-36	+0.7	+24	+165	+33	+30	+3	0	-2	-37
Net Rank		12th	8th	13th	9th	11th	15th	7th	12th	19th	6th	25th	5th	7th	5th	15th	15th	14th	12th

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Craig Morton	14	204	370	55.1	26.4	2,626	7.1	187.6	16	4.3	19	5.1	64	30	241	70.6
	Norris Weese	16	53	97	54.6	6.1	731	7.5	45.7	1	1.0	3	3.1	50	13	86	69.6
	Craig Penrose	2	2	5	40.0	2.5	44	8.8	22.0	0	0.0	1	20.0	29	0	0	32.5
	Jon Keyworth	16	1	1	100.0	0.1	32	32.0	2.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	32	0	0	158.3
	Dave Preston	10	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
	Luke Prestridge	16	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0		0	0	39.6
	Rick Upchurch	16	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
	Otis Armstrong	15	108	7.2	453	4.2	30.2	2	26	122	591
	Jim Jensen	16	106	6.6	400	3.8	25.0	1	30	125	544
	Rob Lytle	15	102	6.8	371	3.6	24.7	4	19	115	464
	Jon Keyworth	16	81	5.1	323	4.0	20.2	1	17	99	455
	Dave Preston	10	43	4.3	169	3.9	16.9	1	18	62	306
	Larry Canada	16	36	2.3	143	4.0	8.9	0	17	39	179
	Craig Morton	14	23	1.6	13	0.6	0.9	1	7	23	13
	Norris Weese	16	18	1.1	116	6.4	7.3	3	20	18	116
	Rick Upchurch	16	3	0.2	17	5.7	1.1	0	18	67	954
	Zachary Dixon	5	3	0.6	9	3.0	1.8	0	7	3	9
	Luke Prestridge	16	1	0.1	29	29.0	1.8	0	29	1	29
	Riley Odoms	13	1	0.1	-7	-7.0	-0.5	0	-7	41	631

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Rick Upchurch	16	64		4	937	14.6	58.6	7	47	67	954
	Haven Moses	16	54		3.4	943	17.5	58.9	6	64	54	943
	Riley Odoms	13	40		3.1	638	16.0	49.1	1	45	41	631
	Jim Jensen	16	19		1.2	144	7.6	9.0	1	25	125	544
	Dave Preston	10	19		1.9	137	7.2	13.7	1	19	62	306
	Jon Keyworth	16	18		1.1	132	7.3	8.3	0	18	99	455
	Otis Armstrong	15	14		0.9	138	9.9	9.2	1	17	122	591
	Rob Lytle	15	13		0.9	93	7.2	6.2	0	12	115	464
	Steve Watson	16	6		0.4	83	13.8	5.2	0	22	6	83
	Ron Egloff	15	5		0.3	70	14.0	4.7	0	22	5	70
	Jack Dolbin	4	3		0.8	74	24.7	18.5	0	45	3	74
	Larry Canada	16	3		0.2	36	12.0	2.3	0	15	39	179
	Jim Turner	16	1		0.1	6	6.0	0.4	0	6	1	6
	Dave Studdard	16	1		0.1	2	2.0	0.1	1	2	1	2

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Steve Foley	16							6	14	2.3	0	7
	Bill Thompson	16							4	57	14.3	0	28
	Bob Swenson	16							3	0	0	0	0
	Joe Rizzo	13							2	25	12.5	0	25
	Louis Wright	16							2	20	10	0	15
	Tom Jackson	13							1	34	34	0	34
	Charlie West	16							1	26	26	0	26

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Jim Turner	16	0	0	0	0	13	32		0	71
	Rick Upchurch	16	0	7	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Haven Moses	16	0	6	0	6	0	0		0	36
	Rob Lytle	15	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Otis Armstrong	15	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Norris Weese	16	3	0	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Jim Jensen	16	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Dave Preston	10	1	1	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Rubin Carter	15	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Jon Keyworth	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Craig Morton	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Rob Nairne	10	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Riley Odoms	13	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Dave Studdard	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Bob Swenson	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Bill Thompson	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Louis Wright	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Rick Upchurch	16	5	304	10.1	0	44	30
	Chris Pane	16	18	20	4.0	0	10	5
	Dave Preston	10	13	78	11.1	0	22	7
	Bernard Jackson	12	4	0		0		0
	Zachary Dixon	5	3	0		0		0
	Larry Canada	16	3	0		0		0
	John Grant	16	1	0		0		0
	Otis Armstrong	15	1	0		0		0
	Vince Kinney	15	1	0		0		0
	Ron Egloff	15	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
	Jim Turner	16	13	21	61.9	1-1	7-9	4-8	1-3	0-0	32	34	94.1	71

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Luke Prestridge	16	89	3,555	39.9	63	0