1981 Pittsburgh Steelers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Pittsburgh Steelers

8-8-0

2nd in AFC Central

Scored 22.3 PPG (8th)

Allowed 18.6 PPG (11th)

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1981 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	356	5,598	1,042	5.4	2,372	554	4.3	3,457	461	7.5	27	231	318	137	156	25	97	840
Team Rank		8th	11th	21st	7th	5th	9th	5th	15th	23rd	8th	5th	21st	9th	5th	19th	15th	8th	10th
Opponent	16	297	5,652	1,084	5.2	1,869	500	3.7	4,108	544	7.6	40	325	323	114	181	28	112	960
Opponent Rank		11th	22nd	18th	19th	8th	11th	8th	26th	23rd	24th	10th	18th	20th	11th	26th	19th	5th	5th
Net		+59	-54	-42	+0.2	+503	+54	+0.5	-651	-83	-0.1	-13	-94	-5	+23	-25	-3	-15	-120
Net Rank		10th	15th	20th	11th	5th	8th	5th	23rd	27th	15th	5th	22nd	17th	5th	23rd	15th	4th	6th

1981 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	14	201	370	54.3	26.4	2,887	7.8	206.2	22	5.9	14	3.8	90	17	155	83.9
	Mark Malone	8	45	88	51.1	11	553	6.3	69.1	3	3.4	5	5.7	30	10	76	58.6
	Cliff Stoudt	2	1	3	33.3	1.5	17	5.7	8.5	0	0.0	0	0.0	17	0	0	53.5

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Franco Harris	16	242	15.1	987	4.1	61.7	8	50	279	1,237
	Frank Pollard	14	123	8.8	570	4.6	40.7	2	29	142	726
	Sidney Thornton	16	56	3.5	202	3.6	12.6	4	17	64	280
	Russell Davis	16	47	2.9	270	5.7	16.9	1	28	51	304
	Terry Bradshaw	14	38	2.7	162	4.3	11.6	2	16	38	162
	Greg Hawthorne	10	25	2.5	58	2.3	5.8	2	16	29	81
	Mark Malone	8	16	2	68	4.3	8.5	2	19	17	158
	Cliff Stoudt	2	3	1.5	11	3.7	5.5	0	10	3	11
	John Stallworth	16	1	0.1	17	17.0	1.1	0	17	64	1,115
	Jim Smith	15	1	0.1	15	15.0	1.0	0	15	30	586
	Craig Colquitt	16	1	0.1	8	8.0	0.5	0	8	1	8
	Rick Moser	6	1	0.2	4	4.0	0.7	0	4	2	9

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	John Stallworth	16	63		3.9	1,098	17.4	68.6	5	55	64	1,115
	Bennie Cunningham	15	41		2.7	574	14.0	38.3	3	30	41	574
	Franco Harris	16	37		2.3	250	6.8	15.6	1	26	279	1,237
	Lynn Swann	13	34		2.6	505	14.9	38.8	5	44	34	505
	Jim Smith	15	29		1.9	571	19.7	38.1	7	46	30	586
	Frank Pollard	14	19		1.4	156	8.2	11.1	0	26	142	726
	Sidney Thornton	16	8		0.5	78	9.8	4.9	0	30	64	280
	Russell Davis	16	4		0.3	34	8.5	2.1	0	19	51	304
	Greg Hawthorne	10	4		0.4	23	5.8	2.3	0	12	29	81
	Randy Grossman	16	3		0.2	19	6.3	1.2	1	14	3	19
	Calvin Sweeney	14	2		0.1	53	26.5	3.8	0	32	2	53
	Mark Malone	8	1		0.1	90	90.0	11.3	1	90	17	158
	Rick Moser	6	1		0.2	5	5.0	0.8	1	5	2	9
	Ray Pinney	16	1		0.1	1	1.0	0.1	1	1	1	1

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Mel Blount	16							6	106	17.7	1	50
	Jack Lambert	16							6	76	12.7	0	31
	Donnie Shell	14							5	52	10.4	0	25
	J.T. Thomas	16							4	18	4.5	0	16
	Anthony Washington	16							3	46	15.3	0	35
	Ron Johnson	12							2	8	4	0	8
	Robin Cole	14							1	29	29	0	29
	Jack Ham	12							1	23	23	0	23
	Dwayne Woodruff	16							1	17	17	0	17
	Dennis Winston	14							1	1	1	0	1

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	David Trout	16	0	0	0	0	12	38		0	74
	Franco Harris	16	8	1	0	9	0	0		0	54
	Jim Smith	15	0	7	0	7	0	0		0	42
	John Stallworth	16	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Lynn Swann	13	0	5	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Sidney Thornton	16	4	0	0	4	0	0		0	24
	Bennie Cunningham	15	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Mark Malone	8	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Terry Bradshaw	14	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Greg Hawthorne	10	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Frank Pollard	14	2	0	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Mel Blount	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Russell Davis	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Randy Grossman	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Rick Moser	6	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Ray Pinney	16	0	1	0	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Larry Anderson	16	37	208	10.4	0	33	20
	Greg Hawthorne	10	7	0		0		0
	Rick Moser	6	3	0		0		0
	Johnnie Dirden	6	3	0		0		0
	Russell Davis	16	1	0		0		0
	Mark Malone	8	1	0		0		0
	Sidney Thornton	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
	David Trout	16	12	17	70.6	3-3	5-6	1-2	3-5	0-1	38	46	82.6	74

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Craig Colquitt	16	84	3,641	43.3	74	0