1987 Pittsburgh Steelers

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Record: 8-7-0, Finished 3rd in AFC Central Division
NFL Season Summary

Scored 285 points (19.0/g), 20th of 28 in the NFL.
Allowed 299 points (19.9/g), 10th.
Differential of -14 points (-0.9/g), 16th.
Expected W-L: 7.1-7.9.

Takeaway/Giveaway Differential +11 (0.7/g), 4th.

Coached by Chuck Noll (8-7-0)

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1987 Statistics / Starters & Roster / Games & Schedule / Team Draftees

Team Games & Schedule

Glossary · ·

								Score		Offense					Defense
Week		Date			Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO
1	Sun	September 13	box	W	1-0		San Francisco 49ers	30	17	21	266	83	183		24	356	309	47	4
2	Sun	September 20	box	L	1-1	@	Cleveland Browns	10	34	17	185	127	58	6	18	304	180	124	2
3	Sun	October 4	box	W	2-1	@	Atlanta Falcons	28	12	19	361	219	142	3	13	215	148	67	4
4	Sun	October 11	box	L	2-2	@	Los Angeles Rams	21	31	16	319	170	149	1	15	313	141	172	2
5	Sun	October 18	box	W	3-2		Indianapolis Colts	21	7	23	378	126	252	1	15	270	195	75	5
6	Sun	October 25	box	W	4-2		Cincinnati Bengals	23	20	17	282	204	78		17	433	292	141	2
7	Sun	November 1	box	L	4-3	@	Miami Dolphins	24	35	22	315	199	116	1	26	478	332	146	3
8	Sun	November 8	box	W	5-3	@	Kansas City Chiefs	17	16	25	391	141	250	4	15	224	123	101	5
9	Sun	November 15	box	L	5-4		Houston Oilers	3	23	8	170	84	86	3	21	373	221	152	1
10	Sun	November 22	box	W	6-4	@	Cincinnati Bengals	30	16	14	328	194	134	2	28	448	373	75	5
11	Sun	November 29	box	L	6-5		New Orleans Saints	16	20	17	284	172	112	6	15	258	144	114	2
12	Sun	December 6	box	W	7-5		Seattle Seahawks	13	9	18	308	99	209		16	215	80	135	2
13	Sun	December 13	box	W	8-5	@	San Diego Chargers	20	16	14	254	150	104	1	27	435	321	114	5
14	Sun	December 20	box	L	8-6	@	Houston Oilers	16	24	22	348	172	176	3	17	283	221	62	1
15	Sat	December 26	box	L	8-7		Cleveland Browns	13	19	10	221	126	95	2	22	315	230	85	1

Team Stats and Rankings

Glossary · ·

						Passing							Rushing
	Pts	Yds	Ply	Y/P	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	TO	FL	1stPy
Team Offense	285	4410	973	4.5	263	198	429	2266	13	25	5.0	126	517	2144	11	4.1	114	33	8	23
Team Defense	299	4920	962	5.1	484	290	481	3310	22	27	6.5	170	455	1610	8	3.5	289	44	17	25
Lg Rank Offense	20	25			25		25	28	27	26	25		4	5	20	6		9	1
Lg Rank Defense	10	13			19		13	23	14	3	26		12	4	5	4		5	11

Passing

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

	Age	Pos	G	GS	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%
Mark Malone	29	QB	12	12	156	336	46.4	1896	6	1.8	19	5.7	63	5.6	3.3	12.2	158.0	46.7	18	151	4.9	2.7	5.1
Steve Bono	25		3	3	34	74	45.9	438	5	6.8	2	2.7	57	5.9	5.4	12.9	146.0	76.3	6	30	5.1	4.6	7.5
Bubby Brister	25		2	0	4	12	33.3	20	0	0.0	3	25.0	10	1.7	-9.6	5.0	10.0	2.8	2	14	0.4	-9.2	14.3
Reggie Collier	26		2	0	4	7	57.1	110	2	28.6	1	14.3	49	15.7	12.1	27.5	55.0	101.8	1	3	13.4	10.3	12.5
Team Total	25.7		15		198	429	46.2	2464	13	3.0	25	5.8	63	5.7	3.4	12.4	164.3	50.3	27	198	5.0	2.8	5.9
Opp Total			15		290	481	60.3	3310	22	4.6	27	5.6		6.9	4.8	11.4	220.7	72.9	26	196	6.5	4.2

Rushing & Receiving

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

					Rushing							Receiving
	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	Lng	R/G	Y/G	YScm	RRTD	Fmb
Earnest Jackson	28	FB	12	9	180	696	1	39	3.9	58.0	15.0	7	52	7.4	0	23	0.6	4.3	748	1	2
Frank Pollard	30	fb	12	7	128	536	3	33	4.2	44.7	10.7	14	77	5.5	0	17	1.2	6.4	613	3	3
Walter Abercrombie	28	RB	12	12	123	459	2	28	3.7	38.3	10.3	24	209	8.7	0	24	2.0	17.4	668	2	4
Mark Malone	29	QB	12	12	34	162	3	42	4.8	13.5	2.8								162	3	10
Dwight Stone	23	RET	14	0	17	135	0	51	7.9	9.6	1.2	1	22	22.0	0	22	0.1	1.6	157	0	0
Chuck Sanders	23		5	0	11	65	1	14	5.9	13.0	2.2	1	11	11.0	0	11	0.2	2.2	76	1	0
Steve Bono	25		3	3	8	27	1	23	3.4	9.0	2.7	1	2	2.0	0	2	0.3	0.7	29	1	5
Rodney Carter	23		11	2	5	12	0	4	2.4	1.1	0.5	16	180	11.3	3	26	1.5	16.4	192	3	0
Reggie Collier	26		2	0	4	20	0	12	5.0	10.0	2.0								20	0	0
Merril Hoge	22		13	0	3	8	0	5	2.7	0.6	0.2	7	97	13.9	1	27	0.5	7.5	105	1	0
Harry Newsome	24	P	12	0	2	16	0	16	8.0	1.3	0.2								16	0	1
Dan Reeder	26		2	0	2	8	0	4	4.0	4.0	1.0								8	0	0
John Stallworth	35	WR	12	11	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	41	521	12.7	2	45	3.4	43.4	521	2	1
Weegie Thompson	26		12	3	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	17	313	18.4	1	63	1.4	26.1	313	1	0
Calvin Sweeney	32	WR	9	6	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	16	217	13.6	0	34	1.8	24.1	217	0	0
Joey Clinkscales	23		7	3	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	13	240	18.5	1	57	1.9	34.3	240	1	0
Danzell Lee	24	TE	13	13	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	12	124	10.3	0	24	0.9	9.5	124	0	0
Louis Lipps	25		4	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	11	164	14.9	0	27	2.8	41.0	164	0	0
Charles Lockett	22		11	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	7	116	16.6	1	25	0.6	10.5	116	1	1
Lyneal Alston	23		3	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	3	84	28.0	2	42	1.0	28.0	84	2	0
Preston Gothard	25		2	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	2	9	4.5	1	7	1.0	4.5	9	1	0
Russell Hairston	23		3	2	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	2	16	8.0	1	11	0.7	5.3	16	1	1
Theo Young	22		12	1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	2	10	5.0	0	6	0.2	0.8	10	0	0
Jim Boyle	25		3	3	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.3	0.0	0	0	0
Team Total	25.7		15		517	2144	11	51	4.1	142.9	34.5	198	2464	12.4	13	63	13.2	164.3	4608	24	37
Opp Total			15		455	1610	8		3.5	107.3	30.3	290	3310	11.4	22		19.3	220.7	4920	30	41

Kick & Punt Returns

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

					Punt Returns					Kick Returns
	Age	Pos	G	GS	Ret	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/R	Rt	Yds	TD	Lng	Y/Rt	APYd
Rod Woodson	22	RET	8	0	16	135	0	20	8.4	13	290	0	36	22.3	425
Dwight Stone	23	RET	14	0						28	568	0	34	20.3	725
Mel Anderson	22		2	0	7	38	0	10	5.4	1	8	0	8	8.0	46
Louis Lipps	25		4	2	7	46	0	12	6.6						210
Lupe Sanchez	26		12	3						6	116	0	27	19.3	116
Thomas Everett	23	FS	12	9	4	22	0	11	5.5						22
Ralph Britt	22		3	0						2	9	0	5	4.5	9
Bruce Jones	25		2	0						2	38	0	22	19.0	38
Charles Lockett	22		11	1	2	3	0	5	1.5						119
Spark Clark	22		1	0						1	18	0	18	18.0	18
Cornell Gowdy	24		13	3						1	0	0	0	0.0	0
Merril Hoge	22		13	0						1	13	0	13	13.0	118
Avon Riley	29		3	0						1	0	0	0	0.0	0
Team Total	25.7		15		36	244	0	20	6.8	56	1060	0	36	18.9	5912
Opp Total			15		46		0			65	1083	0		16.7

Kicking & Punting

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

					0--19		20--29		30--39		40--49		50+		Tot			PAT			Punting
	Age	Pos	G	GS	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FGA	FGM	FG%	XPA	XPM	XP%	Pnt	Yds	Lng	Blck	Y/P
Harry Newsome	24	P	12	0																	64	2678	57	1	41.8
Gary Anderson	28	K	12	0			9	8	5	5	11	7	2	2	27	22	81.5%	21	21	100.0%
John Bruno	23		3	0																	16	619	56	1	38.7
David Trout	30		3	0			1		1						2		0.0%	10	10	100.0%
Team Total	25.7		15				10	8	6	5	11	7	2	2	29	22	75.9%	31	31	100.0%	80	3297	57	2	41.2
Opp Total			15												26	20	76.9%	34	31	91.2%	70	2744			39.2

Defense & Fumbles

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

						Def Interceptions					Fumbles					Tackles
	Age	Pos	G	GS	Sk	Int	Yds	TD	Lng	PD	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	TD	Tkl	Ast	Sfty
Mark Malone	29	QB	12	12								10	5	-3	0
Mike Merriweather	27	LOLB	12	12	5.5	2	26	0	15			0	4	4	0
Steve Bono	25		3	3								5	3	0	0
Walter Abercrombie	28	RB	12	12								4	3	2	0
Bryan Hinkle	28	ROLB	12	12	2.0	3	15	0	8			1	1	0	0
Thomas Everett	23	FS	12	9		3	22	0	21		1	1	2	7	0	72
Delton Hall	22	RCB	12	12		3	29	1	25			1	2	50	1
Rod Woodson	22	RET	8	0		1	45	1	45		0	3	2	0	0	20
Earnest Jackson	28	FB	12	9								2	3	0	0
Dwayne Woodruff	30	LCB	12	12		5	91	1	33
Keith Gary	28	rde	11	6	4.0
Cornell Gowdy	24		13	3		2	50	1	45			0	2	1	0
Frank Pollard	30	fb	12	7								3	1	1	0
Gregg Carr	25		12	0	3.0													1
Robin Cole	32	RILB	12	12	1.0	1	0	0	0			0	1	0	0
Keith Willis	28	LDE	11	10	3.0
David Little	28	LILB	12	12	1.5							0	1	0	0
Ralph Britt	22		3	0								1	1	0	0
Larry Griffin	24		7	3		2	2	0	2
Charles Lockett	22		11	1								1	1	0	0
Harry Newsome	24	P	12	0								1	1	-17	0
Avon Riley	29		3	0		1	4	0	4			1	0	0	0
Donnie Shell	35	SS	13	13		1	50	1	50			0	1	19	1
Xavier Warren	23		2	0	1.0							0	1	11	0
Gerald Williams	24		9	1	1.0						0	0	1	0	0	17
Buddy Aydelette	31	lt	12	5								0	1	5	0
Tommy Dawkins	22		2	2	1.0
Gary Dunn	34	NT	13	13								0	1	0	0
Dave Edwards	25		3	3		1	0	0	0
Russell Hairston	23		3	2								1	0	0	0
Danzell Lee	24	TE	13	13								0	1	0	0
Edmund Nelson	27	RDE	10	8								0	1	0	0
Hardy Nickerson	22		12	0							0	0	1	0	0	17
Lupe Sanchez	26		12	3								1	0	0	0
Chris Sheffield	24		5	0		1	2	0	2
John Stallworth	35	WR	12	11								1	0	0	0
Dwight Stone	23	RET	14	0								0	1	0	0
Weegie Thompson	26		12	3								0	1	0	0
Bert Williams	23		3	3								0	1	0	0
Joe Williams	22		3	0	1.0
Ray Williams	22		1	0		1	0	0	0
Craig Wolfley	29	LG	12	12								0	1	0	0
Team Total	25.7		15		24.0	27	336	5	50		1	37	45	80	2	131		1
Opp Total			15		27							41	24					2

Scoring Summary

Glossary · ProBowl(*), 1st-team All-Pro(+), · ·

	Age	Pos	G	GS	RshTD	RecTD	FblTD	IntTD	XPM	FGM	Sfty	Pts
Gary Anderson	28	K	12	0					21	22		87
Rodney Carter	23		11	2		3						18
Mark Malone	29	QB	12	12	3							18
Frank Pollard	30	fb	12	7	3							18
Walter Abercrombie	28	RB	12	12	2							12
Lyneal Alston	23		3	1		2						12
Delton Hall	22	RCB	12	12			1	1				12
Donnie Shell	35	SS	13	13			1	1				12
John Stallworth	35	WR	12	11		2						12
David Trout	30		3	0					10			10
Steve Bono	25		3	3	1							6
Joey Clinkscales	23		7	3		1						6
Preston Gothard	25		2	2		1						6
Cornell Gowdy	24		13	3				1				6
Russell Hairston	23		3	2		1						6
Merril Hoge	22		13	0		1						6
Earnest Jackson	28	FB	12	9	1							6
Charles Lockett	22		11	1		1						6
Chuck Sanders	23		5	0	1							6
Weegie Thompson	26		12	3		1						6
Dwayne Woodruff	30	LCB	12	12				1				6
Rod Woodson	22	RET	8	0				1				6
Gregg Carr	25		12	0							1	2
Team Total	25.7		15		11	13	2	5	31	22	1	285
Opp Total			15		8	22			31	20	2	299

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