1981 Kansas City Chiefs Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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Record: 9-7-0, 3rd in AFC West Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Marv Levy (9-7-0)

Points For: 343 (21.4/g) 12th of 28

Points Against: 290 (18.1/g) 10th of 28

Expected W-L: 9.6-6.4

SRS: 3.20 (9th of 28), SOS: -0.11

Defensive Coordinator: Rod Rust

Other Notable Asst.: Tom Bresnahan (Offensive Line), Walt Corey (Defensive Backs), Ted Cottrell (Linebackers), Kay Dalton (QB/WR), Frank Gansz (Special Teams/Tight Ends), Don Lawrence (Defensive Line) and Bobby Ross (Running Backs)

Stadium: Arrowhead Stadium

Founder/Principal Owner: Lamar Hunt

General Manager: Jim Schaaf

Defensive Alignment: 3-4

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +8000

Training Camp: William Jewell College (Liberty, Missouri)

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Team Stats and Rankings

Team Stats and Rankings Table
			Tot Yds & TO					Passing							Rushing					Penalties
Player	PF	Yds	Ply	Y/P	TO	FL	1stD	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	NY/A	1stD	Att	Yds	TD	Y/A	1stD	Pen	Yds	1stPy
Team Stats	343	5273	1057	5.0	46	24	315	224	410	2640	12	22	5.9	132	610	2633	22	4.3	160	97	924	23
Opp. Stats	290	5373	1101	4.9	47	21	316	291	567	3626	16	26	6.1	177	507	1747	17	3.4	112	89	740	27
Lg Rank Offense	12	17			22	27	13		28	25	27	13	18		2	3	4	3
Lg Rank Defense	10	17			5	5	17		27	23	6	6	15		13	3	17	2

Schedule & Game Results

Schedule & Game Results Table
										Score		Offense					Defense					Expected Points
Week	Day	Date				OT	Rec		Opp	Tm	Opp	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	1stD	TotYd	PassY	RushY	TO	Offense	Defense	Sp. Tms
1	Sun	September 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		1-0	@	Pittsburgh Steelers	37	33	17	353	214	139	2	29	408	319	89	7	-3.80	11.20	0.24
2	Sun	September 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-0		Tampa Bay Buccaneers	19	10	13	256	99	157		17	298	286	12		-9.38	10.10	10.42
3	Sun	September 20	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-1		San Diego Chargers	31	42	29	426	278	148	8	23	398	284	114	3	-12.31	-3.47	6.23
4	Sun	September 27	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		3-1	@	Seattle Seahawks	20	14	26	381	227	154	2	23	359	277	82	1	9.17	-5.64	2.19
5	Sun	October 4	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-2	@	New England Patriots	17	33	22	327	108	219	4	25	451	211	240	2	-1.95	-20.28	-2.58
6	Sun	October 11	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-2		Oakland Raiders	27	0	20	454	278	176	2	13	230	151	79	3	10.16	20.58	1.17
7	Sun	October 18	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		5-2		Denver Broncos	28	14	13	324	100	224	5	20	396	319	77	5	-6.31	17.75	3.88
8	Sun	October 25	4:00PM ET	boxscore	W		6-2	@	Oakland Raiders	28	17	22	330	211	119	4	21	342	225	117	6	-9.67	23.51	-2.84
9	Sun	November 1	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		6-3	@	San Diego Chargers	20	22	26	339	155	184	3	21	379	297	82	4	1.50	-5.39	3.01
10	Sun	November 8	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	6-4		Chicago Bears	13	16	18	249	84	165	6	15	278	77	201		-19.09	16.69	-0.60
11	Sun	November 15	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-4		Houston Oilers	23	10	19	283	25	258	2	19	370	224	146	5	-4.56	13.31	1.05
12	Sun	November 22	2:00PM ET	boxscore	W		8-4		Seattle Seahawks	40	13	29	450	181	269		21	339	256	83	2	24.76	-1.67	-0.84
13	Thu	November 26	12:30PM ET	boxscore	L		8-5	@	Detroit Lions	10	27	14	245	129	116	3	21	285	114	171	1	-12.44	-3.85	-1.22
14	Sun	December 6	4:00PM ET	boxscore	L		8-6	@	Denver Broncos	13	16	18	307	233	74	1	16	342	265	77	1	3.61	-7.80	3.76
15	Sun	December 13	2:00PM ET	boxscore	L		8-7		Miami Dolphins	7	17	16	276	185	91	2	16	253	160	93	3	-18.66	13.33	-3.77
16	Sun	December 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		9-7	@	Minnesota Vikings	10	6	13	273	133	140	2	16	245	161	84	4	-13.17	21.31	-4.53

Passing

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Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD
1	Bill Kenney	26	QB	13	13	8-5-0	147	274	53.6	1983	9	3.3	16	5.8	93	43.2	64	7.2	5.3	13.5	152.5	63.6	20	160	6.80	6.20	4.4	1	0
2	Steve Fuller	24	QB	13	3	1-2-0	77	134	57.5	934	3	2.2	4	3.0	39	37.7	53	7.0	6.1	12.1	71.8	74.0	17	117	11.26	5.41	4.6	1	1
3	James Hadnot	24	FB	16	15		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	100.0	0			0.0	-45.0		0.0	0.0	0	0	0.00	0.00	-45.0	0	0
4	Henry Marshall	27	WR	12	12		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	100.0	0			0.0	-45.0		0.0	0.0	0	0	0.00	0.00	-45.0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	9-7-0	224	410	54.6	2640	12	2.9	22	5.4	132	41.2	64	7.1	5.3	13.0	165.0	64.7	37	277	8.28	5.91	4.23	2	1

Rushing & Receiving

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Rushing & Receiving Table
						Rushing									Receiving												Scrimmage
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Att	Yds	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	Y/A	Y/G	A/G	Tgt	Rec	Yds	Y/R	TD	1D	Succ%	Lng	R/G	Y/G	Ctch%	Y/Tgt	Touch	Y/Tch	YScm	RRTD	Fmb	Awards
1	Joe Delaney	23	RB	15	10	234	1121	3	44	45.3	82	4.8	74.7	15.6	47	22	246	11.2	0	9	29.8	61	1.5	16.4	46.8	5.2	256	5.3	1367	3	9	PB,AP OPoY-8,AP ORoY-3
2	J.T. Smith	26	WR	16	15	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	105	63	852	13.5	2	46	51.4	42	3.9	53.3	60.0	8.1	63	13.5	852	2	2
3	James Hadnot	24	FB	16	15	140	603	3	42	57.9	30	4.3	37.7	8.8	34	23	215	9.3	0	8	52.9	20	1.4	13.4	67.6	6.3	163	5.0	818	3	4
4	Henry Marshall	27	WR	12	12	3	69	0	2	66.7	34	23.0	5.8	0.3	70	38	620	16.3	4	26	50.0	64	3.2	51.7	54.3	8.9	41	16.8	689	4	2
5	Billy Jackson	22	RB	16	1	111	398	10	39	55.9	31	3.6	24.9	6.9	6	6	31	5.2	1	2	50.0	10	0.4	1.9	100.0	5.2	117	3.7	429	11	1
6	Al Dixon	27	TE	16	13	1	-5	0	0	0.0	-5	-5.0	-0.3	0.1	49	29	356	12.3	2	15	49.0	48	1.8	22.3	59.2	7.3	30	11.7	351	2	0
7	Ted McKnight	27	RB	5	5	54	195	5	15	50.0	26	3.6	39.0	10.8	10	8	77	9.6	0	3	70.0	23	1.6	15.4	80.0	7.7	62	4.4	272	5	2
8	Stan Rome	25	WR	16	4	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	34	17	203	11.9	1	9	41.2	23	1.1	12.7	50.0	6.0	17	11.9	203	1	0
9	Carlos Carson	23	WR	5	1	1	-1	0	0	0.0	-1	-1.0	-0.2	0.2	17	7	179	25.6	1	5	35.3	53	1.4	35.8	41.2	10.5	8	22.3	178	1	1
10	Steve Fuller	24	QB	13	3	19	118	0	4	36.8	27	6.2	9.1	1.5	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			19	6.2	118	0	4
11	Curtis Bledsoe	24	RB	13	1	20	65	0	5	40.0	13	3.3	5.0	1.5	4	3	27	9.0	0	2	50.0	17	0.2	2.1	75.0	6.8	23	4.0	92	0	4
12	Bill Kenney	26	QB	13	13	24	89	1	9	54.2	21	3.7	6.8	1.8	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			24	3.7	89	1	4
13	Willie Scott	22	TE	16	3	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	13	5	72	14.4	1	5	38.5	26	0.3	4.5	38.5	5.5	5	14.4	72	1	0
14	James Murphy	22	WR	10	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	2	36	18.0	0	2	66.7	22	0.2	3.6	66.7	12.0	2	18.0	36	0	0
15	Mike Williams	24	FB	3	0	2	0	0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.7	1	1	3	3.0	0	0	0.0	3	0.3	1.0	100.0	3.0	3	1.0	3	0	0
16	Jerry Blanton	25	LILB	9	9	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
17	Bubba Garcia	24	WR	1	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	1	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
18	Bob Grupp	26	P	9	0	1	-19	0	0	0.0	-19	-19.0	-2.1	0.1	0	0	0		0	0			0.0	0.0			1	-19.0	-19	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	610	2633	22	160	50.2	82	4.3	164.6	38.1	395	224	2917	13.0	12	132	46.6	64	14.0	182.3	56.7	7.4	834	6.7	5550	34	33

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Defense & Fumbles

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						Def Interceptions				Fumbles						Tackles
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	G	GS	Int	Yds	IntTD	Lng	FF	Fmb	FR	Yds	FRTD	Sk	Comb	Solo	Ast	Sfty	Awards
1	Gary Barbaro	27	FS	16	16	5	134	0	34	1	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB
2	Mike Bell	24	RDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	5.0	0	0	0	0
3	Tom Condon	29	RG	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
4	Gary Green	26	LCB	16	16	5	37	0	16	2	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB
5	Eric Harris	26	RCB	16	16	7	109	0	43	1	0	2	20	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
6	Matt Herkenhoff	30	LT	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	Jack Rudnay	34	C	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-28	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
8	Gary Spani	25	RILB	16	16	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	91	1	1.0	0	0	0	0
9	James Hadnot	24	FB	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	J.T. Smith	26	WR	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	19	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Lloyd Burruss	24	SS	16	14	4	75	1	46	2	1	1	4	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Bill Kenney	26	QB	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	-2	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Henry Marshall	27	WR	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Charles Jackson	26	ROLB	14	11	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	33	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
15	Art Still	26	LDE	11	11	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	PB
16	Joe Delaney	23	RB	15	10	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP OPoY-8,AP ORoY-3
17	Jerry Blanton	25	LILB	9	9	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0
18	Whitney Paul	28	LOLB	16	9	2	30	0	25	1	0	1	47	1	3.0	0	0	0	0
19	Ken Kremer	24	NT	16	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	8.0	0	0	0	0
20	Don Parrish	26	NT	16	8	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0
21	Tom Howard	27	LOLB	9	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	65	1	2.0	0	0	0	0
22	Dave Lindstrom	27	LDE	16	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0	0	0	0
23	Ted McKnight	27	RB	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
24	Frank Manumaleuga	25	LB	4	4	2	17	0	12	2	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Stan Rome	25	WR	16	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	13	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Steve Fuller	24	QB	13	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	-6	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	Herb Christopher	27	DB	16	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Curtis Bledsoe	24	RB	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
29	Phil Cancik	24	LB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
30	Carlos Carson	23	WR	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
31	Billy Jackson	22	RB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
32	Deron Cherry	22	DB	13	0	1	4	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
33	Nick Lowery	25	K	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-2
34	Dino Mangiero	23	NT	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	0	0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	26	406	1	46	22	36	31	256	3	29.0	0	0	0	0

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