1997 Pittsburgh Steelers Team & Player Stats | StatMuse

Pittsburgh Steelers

11-5-0

1st in AFC Central

Scored 23.3 PPG (7th)

Allowed 19.2 PPG (11th)

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1997 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	372	5,542	1,058	5.2	2,479	572	4.3	3,215	466	6.9	20	152	326	154	157	15	95	861
Team Rank		7th	6th	5th	9th	1st	1st	8th	23rd	26th	9th	1st	30th	3rd	1st	25th	30th	10th	15th
Opponent	16	307	4,705	1,005	4.7	1,318	403	3.3	3,681	554	6.6	48	294	285	82	177	26	90	708
Opponent Rank		11th	6th	11th	7th	1st	3rd	1st	21st	24th	14th	6th	19th	12th	4th	18th	20th	27th	28th
Net		+65	+837	+53	+0.6	+1,161	+169	+1.1	-466	-88	+0.3	-28	-142	+41	+72	-20	-11	+5	+153
Net Rank		8th	5th	7th	6th	1st	1st	2nd	26th	27th	10th	1st	30th	4th	1st	24th	28th	19th	26th

1997 Regular Season Player Stats

Passing

		GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	TD%	INT	INT%	LNG	SCK	SCKY	RATE
	Kordell Stewart	16	236	440	53.6	27.5	3,020	6.9	188.8	21	4.8	17	3.9	69	20	152	75.2
	Mike Tomczak	16	16	24	66.7	1.5	185	7.7	11.6	1	4.2	2	8.3	28	0	0	68.9
	Mike Quinn	1	1	2	50.0	2	10	5.0	10.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	10	0	0	64.6

Rushing

		GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Jerome Bettis	15	375	25	1,665	4.4	111.0	7	34	390	1,775
	Kordell Stewart	16	88	5.5	476	5.4	29.8	11	74	88	476
	George Jones	16	72	4.5	235	3.3	14.7	1	32	88	331
	Fred McAfee	14	13	0.9	41	3.2	2.9	0	9	15	85
	Mike Tomczak	16	7	0.4	13	1.9	0.8	0	17	7	13
	Courtney Hawkins	15	5	0.3	17	3.4	1.1	0	11	50	572
	Jon Witman	16	5	0.3	11	2.2	0.7	0	4	6	14
	Will Blackwell	14	2	0.1	14	7.0	1.0	0	11	14	182
	Tim Lester	16	2	0.1	9	4.5	0.6	0	6	12	60
	Yancey Thigpen	16	1	0.1	3	3.0	0.2	0	3	80	1,401
	Curtis Marsh	5	1	0.2	2	2.0	0.4	0	2	3	16
	Josh Miller	16	1	0.1	-7	-7.0	-0.4	0	-7	1	-7

Receiving

		GP	REC	TRG	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	LNG	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
	Yancey Thigpen	16	79		4.9	1,398	17.7	87.4	7	69	80	1,401
	Charles Johnson	13	46		3.5	568	12.3	43.7	2	49	46	568
	Courtney Hawkins	15	45		3	555	12.3	37.0	3	44	50	572
	Mark Bruener	16	18		1.1	117	6.5	7.3	6	18	18	117
	George Jones	16	16		1	96	6.0	6.0	1	25	88	331
	Jerome Bettis	15	15		1	110	7.3	7.3	2	19	390	1,775
	Will Blackwell	14	12		0.9	168	14.0	12.0	1	46	14	182
	Tim Lester	16	10		0.6	51	5.1	3.2	0	14	12	60
	Mitch Lyons	10	4		0.4	29	7.3	2.9	0	13	4	29
	Fred McAfee	14	2		0.1	44	22.0	3.1	0	30	15	85
	Curtis Marsh	5	2		0.4	14	7.0	2.8	0	8	3	16
	Mike Adams	6	1		0.2	39	39.0	6.5	0	39	1	39
	Troy Sadowski	6	1		0.2	12	12.0	2.0	0	12	1	12
	Kirk Botkin	13	1		0.1	11	11.0	0.8	0	11	1	11
	Jon Witman	16	1		0.1	3	3.0	0.2	0	3	6	14

Defense

		GP	TKL	AST	COMB	TFL	SCK	PDEF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG
	Carnell Lake	16					6.0		3	16	5.3	0	11
	Levon Kirkland	16					5.0		2	14	7	0	11
	Jason Gildon	16					5.0		0	0		0
	Kevin Henry	16					4.5		1	36	36	0	36
	Chris Oldham	16					4.0		2	16	8	0	8
	Steve Conley	16					4.0		1	-3	-3	0	-3
	Nolan Harrison	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Earl Holmes	16					4.0		0	0		0
	Greg Lloyd	12					3.5		0	0		0
	Myron Bell	16					1.5		1	10	10	0	7
	Mike Vrabel	15					1.5		0	0		0
	Darren Perry	16					1.0		4	77	19.3	0	42
	Randy Fuller	12					1.0		0	0		0
	Oliver Gibson	16					1.0		0	0		0
	Orpheus Roye	16					1.0		0	0		0
	Joel Steed	16					1.0		0	0		0

Scoring

		GP	RUSH	REC	RET	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	SFTY	PTS
	Norm Johnson	16	0	0	0	0	22	40	0	0	106
	Kordell Stewart	16	11	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	66
	Jerome Bettis	15	7	2	0	9	0	0	0	0	54
	Yancey Thigpen	16	0	7	0	7	0	0	1	0	44
	Mark Bruener	16	0	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	36
	Courtney Hawkins	15	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	18
	Will Blackwell	14	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Charles Johnson	13	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	George Jones	16	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	12
	Jason Gildon	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6
	Carnell Lake	16	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6

Returns

		GP	KR	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	RET
	Will Blackwell	14	32	149	6.5	0	15	23
	Andre Coleman	8	24	5	1.0	0	5	5
	Mike Adams	6	10	0		0		0
	Mike Vrabel	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
	Norm Johnson	16	22	25	88.0	1-1	6-6	8-8	6-8	1-2	40	40	100.0	106

Punting

		GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Josh Miller	16	64	2,729	42.6	72	0