1979 Washington Redskins Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Washington Redskins

10-6-0

3rd in NFC East

Scored 21.8 PPG (10th)

Allowed 18.4 PPG (10th)

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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	348	4,904	1,044	4.7	2,328	609	3.8	2,839	401	7.1	34	263	298	126	144	28	86	749
Team Rank		10th	18th	14th	19th	12th	4th	20th	21st	23rd	12th	11th	19th	16th	11th	15th	6th	3rd	7th
Opponent	16	295	5,146	1,058	4.9	2,154	541	4.0	3,339	470	7.1	47	347	320	126	165	29	76	617
Opponent Rank		10th	17th	19th	16th	12th	17th	14th	20th	17th	20th	5th	21st	21st	16th	22nd	21st	27th	28th
Net		+53	-242	-14	-0.2	+174	+68	-0.2	-500	-69	0.0	-13	-84	-22	0	-21	-1	+10	+132
Net Rank		8th	18th	19th	17th	13th	8th	19th	22nd	24th	15th	7th	19th	20th	15th	20th	17th	20th	23rd

1979 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Joe Theismann	16	233	395	59.0	24.7	2,797	7.1	174.8	20	5.1	13	3.3	62	34	263	83.9
	Kim McQuilken	3	1	4	25.0	1.3	12	3.0	4.0	0	0.0	1	25.0	12	0	0	0.0
	Buddy Hardeman	10	1	2	50.0	0.2	30	15.0	3.0	0	0.0	1	50.0	30	0	0	56.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	John Riggins	16	260	16.3	1,153	4.4	72.1	9	66	288	1,316
	Benny Malone	16	176	11	472	2.7	29.5	3	14	189	609
	Clarence Harmon	16	65	4.1	267	4.1	16.7	0	18	97	701
	Joe Theismann	16	46	2.9	181	3.9	11.3	4	22	46	181
	Buddy Hardeman	10	31	3.1	124	4.0	12.4	0	22	52	321
	Ike Forte	11	25	2.3	125	5.0	11.4	1	20	35	230
	Bobby Hammond	5	2	0.4	5	2.5	1.0	0	3	4	21
	Lonnie Perrin	5	2	0.4	4	2.0	0.8	0	3	2	4
	Kim McQuilken	3	2	0.7	-3	-1.5	-1.0	0	-1	2	-3

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Danny Buggs	16	46		2.9	631	13.7	39.4	1	45	46	631
	Clarence Harmon	16	32		2	434	13.6	27.1	5	40	97	701
	John Riggins	16	28		1.8	163	5.8	10.2	3	23	288	1,316
	Don Warren	16	26		1.6	303	11.7	18.9	0	23	26	303
	Johnnie McDaniel	15	25		1.7	357	14.3	23.8	2	62	25	357
	Ricky Thompson	15	22		1.5	368	16.7	24.5	4	35	22	368
	Buddy Hardeman	10	21		2.1	197	9.4	19.7	1	41	52	321
	Benny Malone	16	13		0.8	137	10.5	8.6	1	55	189	609
	Jean Fugett	11	10		0.9	128	12.8	11.6	3	30	10	128
	Ike Forte	11	10		0.9	105	10.5	9.5	0	22	35	230
	Bobby Hammond	5	2		0.4	16	8.0	3.2	0	12	4	21

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Lemar Parrish	16							9	65	7.2	0	23
	Joe Lavender	16							6	77	12.8	0	27
	Mark Murphy	16							3	29	9.7	0	16
	Karl Lorch	15							1	31	31	1	31
	Ken Houston	13							1	20	20	0	20
	Monte Coleman	16							1	13	13	0	13
	Pete Wysocki	16							1	9	9	0	9
	Ray Waddy	16							1	6	6	0	6
	Neal Olkewicz	16							1	4	4	0	4
	Brad Dusek	16							1	0	0	0	0
	Tony Peters	16							1	-4	-4	0	-4

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Mark Moseley	16	0	0	0	0	25	39		0	114
	John Riggins	16	9	3	0	12	0	0		0	72
	Clarence Harmon	16	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Benny Malone	16	3	1	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Joe Theismann	16	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Ricky Thompson	15	0	4	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Jean Fugett	11	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Johnnie McDaniel	15	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Danny Buggs	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Ike Forte	11	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Buddy Hardeman	10	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Don Hover	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Karl Lorch	15	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Buddy Hardeman	10	19	207	8.6	0	52	24
	Bobby Hammond	5	14	54	7.7	0	16	7
	Ike Forte	11	8	0		0		0
	Don Harris	16	6	0		0		0
	Clarence Harmon	16	5	10	10.0	0	10	1
	Lonnie Perrin	5	3	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
	Mark Moseley	16	25	33	75.8	2-2	5-5	8-9	9-14	1-3	39	39	100.0	114

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Mike Bragg	16	78	2,998	38.4	74	0