1983 Chicago Bears Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Chicago Bears

8-8-0

3rd in NFC Central

Scored 19.4 PPG (20th)

Allowed 18.8 PPG (5th)

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1983 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	311	5,830	1,083	5.4	2,727	583	4.7	3,461	447	7.7	53	358	308	154	136	18	107	869
Team Rank		20th	6th	6th	5th	1st	5th	2nd	17th	23rd	4th	23rd	9th	17th	3rd	26th	17th	19th	18th
Opponent	16	301	5,132	1,023	5.0	2,000	482	4.1	3,516	490	7.2	51	384	286	113	154	19	86	687
Opponent Rank		5th	8th	6th	15th	11th	9th	15th	12th	10th	15th	6th	22nd	4th	10th	8th	9th	24th	26th
Net		+10	+698	+60	+0.4	+727	+101	+0.5	-55	-43	+0.6	+2	-26	+22	+41	-18	-1	+21	+182
Net Rank		12th	5th	7th	6th	3rd	8th	4th	14th	19th	6th	15th	18th	8th	4th	21st	14th	27th	26th

1983 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Jim McMahon	14	175	295	59.3	21.1	2,184	7.4	156.0	12	4.1	13	4.4	87	42	266	77.6
	Vince Evans	9	76	145	52.4	16.1	1,108	7.6	123.1	5	3.4	7	4.8	72	11	92	69.0
	Walter Payton	16	3	6	50.0	0.4	95	15.8	5.9	3	50.0	2	33.3	56	0	0	95.8
	Matt Suhey	16	1	1	100.0	0.1	74	74.0	4.6	1	100.0	0	0.0	74	0	0	158.3

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Walter Payton	16	314	19.6	1,421	4.5	88.8	6	49	367	2,028
	Matt Suhey	16	149	9.3	681	4.6	42.6	4	39	198	1,110
	Jim McMahon	14	55	3.9	307	5.6	21.9	2	32	56	325
	Vince Evans	9	22	2.4	142	6.5	15.8	1	27	22	142
	Dennis Gentry	15	16	1.1	65	4.1	4.3	0	17	18	73
	Calvin Thomas	13	8	0.6	25	3.1	1.9	0	9	10	38
	Anthony Hutchison	16	6	0.4	13	2.2	0.8	1	5	6	13
	Emery Moorehead	16	5	0.3	6	1.2	0.4	0	5	47	603
	Willie Gault	16	4	0.3	31	7.8	1.9	0	22	44	867
	Brian Baschnagel	16	2	0.1	2	1.0	0.1	0	2	7	72
	Bob Parsons	14	1	0.1	27	27.0	1.9	0	27	1	27
	Ken Margerum	15	1	0.1	7	7.0	0.5	0	7	22	343

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Walter Payton	16	53		3.3	607	11.5	37.9	2	74	367	2,028
	Matt Suhey	16	49		3.1	429	8.8	26.8	1	52	198	1,110
	Emery Moorehead	16	42		2.6	597	14.2	37.3	3	36	47	603
	Willie Gault	16	40		2.5	836	20.9	52.3	8	87	44	867
	Ken Margerum	15	21		1.4	336	16.0	22.4	2	60	22	343
	Dennis McKinnon	16	20		1.3	326	16.3	20.4	4	49	20	326
	Jay Saldi	13	12		0.9	119	9.9	9.2	0	16	12	119
	Pat Dunsmore	16	8		0.5	102	12.8	6.4	0	24	8	102
	Brian Baschnagel	16	5		0.3	70	14.0	4.4	0	24	7	72
	Calvin Thomas	13	2		0.2	13	6.5	1.0	0	7	10	38
	Dennis Gentry	15	2		0.1	8	4.0	0.5	0	6	18	73
	Jim McMahon	14	1		0.1	18	18.0	1.3	1	18	56	325

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Mike Hartenstine	16					12.0		0	0		0
	Steve McMichael	16					8.5		0	0		0
	Al Harris	13					6.0		0	0		0
	Dan Hampton	11					5.0		0	0		0
	Jim Osborne	16					5.0		0	0		0
	Mike Singletary	16					3.5		1	0	0	0	0
	Todd Bell	15					3.0		0	0		0
	Richard Dent	16					3.0		0	0		0
	Otis Wilson	16					2.0		1	6	6	0	6
	Brian Cabral	16					1.0		0	0		0
	Gary Campbell	6					1.0		0	0		0
	Tyrone Keys	14					1.0		0	0		0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Bob Thomas	16	0	0	0	0	14	35		0	77
	Willie Gault	16	0	8	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Walter Payton	16	6	2	0	8	0	0		0	48
	Dennis McKinnon	16	0	4	1	5	0	0		0	30
	Matt Suhey	16	4	1	0	5	0	0		0	30
	Jim McMahon	14	2	1	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Emery Moorehead	16	0	3	0	3	0	0		0	18
	Ken Margerum	15	0	2	0	2	0	0		0	12
	Vince Evans	9	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Leslie Frazier	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Mike Hartenstine	16	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6
	Anthony Hutchison	16	1	0	0	1	0	0		0	6
	Terry Schmidt	13	0	0	1	1	0	0		0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Dennis McKinnon	16	2	316	9.3	1	59	34
	Willie Gault	16	13	60	6.7	0	12	9
	Anthony Hutchison	16	17	0		0		0
	Dennis Gentry	15	7	0		0		0
	Rickey Watts	4	5	0		0		0
	Dave Duerson	16	3	0		0		0
	Brian Baschnagel	16	3	0		0		0
	Todd Bell	15	2	0		0		0
	Brian Cabral	16	2	0		0		0
	Dan Rains	15	2	0		0		0
	Mike Richardson	16	1	0		0		0
	John Janata	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
	Bob Thomas	16	14	25	56.0	1-1	9-9	0-4	3-6	1-5	35	38	92.1	77

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Bob Parsons	14	79	2,916	36.9	54	0
	Ray Stachowicz	2	12	447	37.3	48	2
	Jim McMahon	14	1	36	36.0	36	0