1979 Minnesota Vikings Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Minnesota Vikings

7-9-0

3rd in NFC Central

Scored 16.2 PPG (24th)

Allowed 21.1 PPG (17th)

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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	259	4,903	1,090	4.5	1,764	487	3.6	3,397	566	6.0	37	258	311	112	168	31	96	787
Team Rank		24th	19th	7th	22nd	23rd	23rd	24th	12th	2nd	26th	14th	20th	10th	22nd	8th	3rd	9th	8th
Opponent	16	337	5,223	1,037	5.0	2,526	583	4.3	2,965	424	7.0	30	268	297	148	133	16	93	786
Opponent Rank		17th	18th	13th	19th	26th	24th	22nd	9th	5th	16th	22nd	11th	13th	27th	7th	2nd	24th	23rd
Net		-78	-320	+53	-0.5	-762	-96	-0.7	+432	+142	-1.0	+7	-10	+14	-36	+35	+15	+3	+1
Net Rank		22nd	21st	7th	24th	25th	24th	26th	8th	2nd	23rd	18th	14th	12th	24th	6th	2nd	16th	15th

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Tommy Kramer	16	315	566	55.7	35.4	3,397	6.0	212.3	23	4.1	24	4.2	55	36	249	69.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Rickey Young	16	188	11.8	708	3.8	44.3	3	26	260	1,227
	Ted Brown	14	130	9.3	551	4.2	39.4	1	34	161	748
	Chuck Foreman	12	87	7.3	223	2.6	18.6	2	16	106	370
	Robert Miller	16	35	2.2	109	3.1	6.8	2	20	44	169
	Tommy Kramer	16	32	2	138	4.3	8.6	1	20	32	141
	Brent McClanahan	16	14	0.9	29	2.1	1.8	0	9	24	86
	Sammy White	15	1	0.1	6	6.0	0.4	0	6	43	721

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Ahmad Rashad	16	80		5	1,156	14.5	72.3	9	52	80	1,156
	Rickey Young	16	72		4.5	519	7.2	32.4	4	18	260	1,227
	Sammy White	15	42		2.8	715	17.0	47.7	4	55	43	721
	Ted Brown	14	31		2.2	197	6.4	14.1	0	35	161	748
	Bob Tucker	16	24		1.5	223	9.3	13.9	2	21	24	223
	Chuck Foreman	12	19		1.6	147	7.7	12.3	0	22	106	370
	Stu Voigt	16	15		0.9	139	9.3	8.7	2	18	15	139
	Brent McClanahan	16	10		0.6	57	5.7	3.6	0	9	24	86
	Robert Miller	16	9		0.6	60	6.7	3.8	0	14	44	169
	Terry LeCount	12	6		0.5	119	19.8	9.9	2	36	6	119
	Douglas Cunningham	6	5		0.8	50	10.0	8.3	0	15	5	50
	Robert Steele	16	1		0.1	10	10.0	0.6	0	10	1	10
	Jimmy Edwards	14	1		0.1	2	2.0	0.1	0	2	1	2

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Tom Hannon	16							4	85	21.3	0	52
	Nate Wright	10							4	44	11	0	32
	Paul Krause	16							3	49	16.3	0	18
	Matt Blair	16							3	32	10.7	0	16
	Bobby Bryant	14							2	50	25	0	29
	John Turner	16							2	48	24	0	36
	Kurt Knoff	10							2	25	12.5	0	15
	Scott Studwell	14							1	18	18	0	18
	Nate Allen	5							1	0	0	0	0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Rick Danmeier	16	0	0	0	0	13	28		0	67
	Ahmad Rashad	16	0	9	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Rickey Young	16	3	4	0	7	0	0		0	42
	Sammy White	15	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Chuck Foreman	12	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Terry LeCount	12	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Robert Miller	16	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Bob Tucker	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Stu Voigt	16	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Ted Brown	14	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Tommy Kramer	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Jimmy Edwards	14	44	186	5.6	0	42	33
	Ted Brown	14	8	0		0		0
	Brent McClanahan	16	3	0		0		0
	Robert Miller	16	3	0		0		0
	Robert Steele	16	1	0		0		0
	Scott Studwell	14	1	0		0		0
	Stu Voigt	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	13	22	59.1	0-0	3-5	5-7	5-10	0-0	28	31	90.3	67

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Greg Coleman	16	90	3,551	39.5	70	1