Charlie Joiner

Charles Joiner Jr.

Position: WR
Height: 5-11 Weight: 188 lbs.

Born: October 14, 1947 in Many, LA
College: Grambling St.
Drafted by the Houston Oilers in the 4th round (93rd overall) of the 1969 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 91 (239th overall since 1950)
3-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 1996, finalist in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995

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All-Time Rank: #247. Roman Gabriel… #248. Joe Jacoby… #249. Pat Swilling… #250. CHARLIE JOINER… #251. Michael Strahan… #252. Jeff Saturday… #253. Nick Buoniconti…

All-Time Rank: #247. Roman Gabriel… #248. Joe Jacoby… #249. Pat Swilling… #250. CHARLIE JOINER… #251. Michael Strahan… #252. Jeff Saturday… #253. Nick Buoniconti…

Receiving & Rushing

							Receiving							Rushing
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	AV
1969	22	HOU		40	7		7	77	11.0	0	16	1.0	11.0								77	0	0	1
1970	23	HOU	WR	18	9	8	28	416	14.9	3	87	3.1	46.2								416	3	0	4
1971	24	HOU	WR	18	14	13	31	681	22.0	7	70	2.2	48.6								681	7	1	7
1972	25	2TM			12	0	24	439	18.3	2	82	2.0	36.6	3	14	0	9	4.7	1.2	0.3	453	2	2	5
		HOU	WR	18	6	0	16	306	19.1	2	82	2.7	51.0	2	12	0	9	6.0	2.0	0.3	318	2	1	3
		CIN		18	6	0	8	133	16.6	0	25	1.3	22.2	1	2	0	2	2.0	0.3	0.2	135	0	1	2
1973	26	CIN	wr	18	5	4	13	214	16.5	0	26	2.6	42.8								214	0	1	3
1974	27	CIN	WR	18	14	12	24	390	16.3	1	65	1.7	27.9	4	20	0	8	5.0	1.4	0.3	410	1	3	5
1975	28	CIN	WR	18	14	11	37	726	19.6	5	51	2.6	51.9								726	5	1	9
1976*	29	SDG	WR	18	14	14	50	1056	21.1	7	81	3.6	75.4								1056	7	0	12
1977	30	SDG	WR	18	14	14	35	542	15.5	6	32	2.5	38.7								542	6	1	6
1978	31	SDG	WR	18	16	15	33	607	18.4	1	46	2.1	37.9								607	1	2	7
1979*	32	SDG	WR	18	16	16	72	1008	14.0	4	39	4.5	63.0	1	-12	0	-12	-12.0	-0.8	0.1	996	4	1	11
1980*+	33	SDG	WR	18	16	16	71	1132	15.9	4	51	4.4	70.8								1132	4	3	11
1981	34	SDG	WR	18	16	16	70	1188	17.0	7	57	4.4	74.3								1188	7	2	13
1982	35	SDG	WR	18	9	9	36	545	15.1	0	43	4.0	60.6								545	0	1	11
1983	36	SDG	WR	18	16	16	65	960	14.8	3	33	4.1	60.0								960	3	2	8
1984	37	SDG	WR	18	16	16	61	793	13.0	6	41	3.8	49.6								793	6	0	7
1985	38	SDG	WR	18	16	14	59	932	15.8	7	39	3.7	58.3								932	7	1	9
1986	39	SDG	WR	18	15	9	34	440	12.9	2	33	2.3	29.3								440	2	0	4
Career					239	203	750	12146	16.2	65	87	3.1	50.8	8	22	0	9	2.8	0.1	0.0	12168	65	21	133
11 yrs		SDG			164	155	586	9203	15.7	47	81	3.6	56.1	1	-12	0	0	-12.0	-0.1	0.0	9191	47	13	99
4 yrs		CIN			39	27	82	1463	17.8	6	65	2.1	37.5	5	22	0	8	4.4	0.6	0.1	1485	6	6	19
4 yrs		HOU			36	21	82	1480	18.0	12	87	2.3	41.1	2	12	0	9	6.0	0.3	0.1	1492	12	2	15

Kick & Punt Returns

							Punt Returns					Kick Returns
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd
1969	22	HOU		40	7							3	73	0	28	24.3	150
1971	24	HOU	WR	18	14	13						1	25	0	25	25.0	706
1972	25	2TM			12	0						5	88	0	25	17.6	541
		CIN		18	6	0						5	88	0	25	17.6	223
1977	30	SDG	WR	18	14	14						1	8	0	8	8.0	550
Career					239	203						10	194	0	28	19.4	12362
11 yrs		SDG			164	155						1	8	0	8	8.0	9199
4 yrs		CIN			39	27						5	88	0	25	17.6	1573
4 yrs		HOU			36	21						4	98	0	28	24.5	1590

Passing

Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	NY/A	ANY/A	Sk%	4QC	GWD
1976*	29	SDG	WR	18	14	14		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0
Career					239	203		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.0

Comeback and game-winning drive numbers are based on research by Scott Kacsmar, as described in parts I, II, and III on the blog.

Defense & Fumbles

								Def Interceptions					Fumbles					Tackles
Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	Sk	Int	Yds	TD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	TD	Tkl	Ast	Sfty
1971	24	HOU	WR	18	14	13							0	1	0	0	0
1972	25	2TM			12	0							0	2	0	0	0
		HOU	WR	18	6	0							0	1	0	0	0
		CIN		18	6	0							0	1	0	0	0
1973	26	CIN	wr	18	5	4							0	1	0	0	0
1974	27	CIN	WR	18	14	12							0	3	0	0	0
1975	28	CIN	WR	18	14	11							0	1	1	0	0
1976*	29	SDG	WR	18	14	14							0	0	1	5	0
1977	30	SDG	WR	18	14	14							0	1	0	0	0
1978	31	SDG	WR	18	16	15							0	2	0	0	0
1979*	32	SDG	WR	18	16	16							0	1	0	0	0
1980*+	33	SDG	WR	18	16	16							0	3	0	0	0
1981	34	SDG	WR	18	16	16							0	2	0	0	0
1982	35	SDG	WR	18	9	9							0	1	0	0	0
1983	36	SDG	WR	18	16	16							0	2	0	0	0
1985	38	SDG	WR	18	16	14							0	1	0	0	0
Career					239	203							0	21	2	5	0
11 yrs		SDG			164	155							0	13	1	5	0
4 yrs		CIN			39	27							0	6	1	0	0
4 yrs		HOU			36	21							0	2	0	0	0

Scoring Summary

Year	Age	Tm	Pos	No.	G	GS	RecTD	AllTD	Pts
1970	23	HOU	WR	18	9	8	3	3	18
1971	24	HOU	WR	18	14	13	7	7	42
1972	25	2TM			12	0	2	2	12
		HOU	WR	18	6	0	2	2	12
1974	27	CIN	WR	18	14	12	1	1	6
1975	28	CIN	WR	18	14	11	5	5	30
1976*	29	SDG	WR	18	14	14	7	7	42
1977	30	SDG	WR	18	14	14	6	6	36
1978	31	SDG	WR	18	16	15	1	1	6
1979*	32	SDG	WR	18	16	16	4	4	24
1980*+	33	SDG	WR	18	16	16	4	4	24
1981	34	SDG	WR	18	16	16	7	7	42
1983	36	SDG	WR	18	16	16	3	3	18
1984	37	SDG	WR	18	16	16	6	6	36
1985	38	SDG	WR	18	16	14	7	7	42
1986	39	SDG	WR	18	15	9	2	2	12
Career					239	203	65	65	390
11 yrs		SDG			164	155	47	47	282
4 yrs		CIN			39	27	6	6	36
4 yrs		HOU			36	21	12	12	72

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year Lg Value (Rank/All-Time)

Pro Bowls 1976 1979 1980	First-Team All-Pro 1980	Approximate Value Career 133 (139)	Receptions 1979 NFL 72 (4) 1980 NFL 71 (5) 1981 NFL 70 (9) Career 750 (35)
Receiving Yds 1976 NFL 1056 (3) 1980 NFL 1132 (4) 1981 NFL 1188 (6) Career 12146 (18)	Receiving TD 1971 NFL 7 (5) 1976 NFL 7 (7) 1977 NFL 6 (9) Career 65 (45)	Long Reception 1970 NFL 87 (3) 1972 NFL 82 (6) 1976 NFL 81 (4)	Yds/Reception 1971 NFL 22.0 (4/66) 1975 NFL 19.6 (4) 1976 NFL 21.1 (4) Career 16.2 (139)
Receiving Yds/Game 1976 NFL 75.4 (3) 1980 NFL 70.8 (4) 1981 NFL 74.3 (7) Career 50.8 (139)	Touchdowns Career 65 (112)	Rushing/Receiving TD Career 65 (104)	Yds From Scrimmage Career 12168 (49)
All-Purpose Yds Career 12362 (74)	Yds/Touch Career 16.1 (47)	Games Career 239 (57)	Games Started Career 203 (60)

All-Pro Teams

Year	Team	Level	Voters
1976	2nd Team	All-Conf.	UPI
1976	2nd Team	All-NFL	Newspaper Ent. Assoc.
1980	2nd Team	All-Conf.	UPI
1980	1st Team	All-NFL	Associated Press

Fantasy

Year	Age	G	FantPos	FantPt	VBD	PosRank	OvRank
1970	23	9	WR	60		35
1971	24	14	WR	110	45	10	26
1972	25	12	WR	57		35
1973	26	5	WR	21		62
1974	27	14	WR	47		43
1975	28	14	WR	103	36	17	39
1976	29	14	WR	148	84	4	14
1977	30	14	WR	90	25	18	47
1978	31	16	WR	67		45
1979	32	16	WR	124	24	18	49
1980	33	16	WR	137	36	11	34
1981	34	16	WR	161	64	6	22
1982	35	9	WR	55	2	29	72
1983	36	16	WR	114	25	20	49
1984	37	16	WR	115	13	21	61
1985	38	16	WR	135	27	14	44
1986	39	15	WR	56		60
				1600	381

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