Football
Defensive Back

Born: April 10, 1948
Vidalia, Ga., U.S.A.

Active: 1970-1983

Defense 1: Turnovers

Season	Team	Games	Fum	FR	Int	Team Punts Forced	Def 1
1970	PIT	14	0	1	1	85	0.74
1971	PIT	14	1	0	2	77	0.66
1972	PIT	14	0	2	3	74	0.95
1973	PIT	14	0	2	4	75	1.00
1974	PIT	13	0	3	2	91	1.01
1975	PIT	14	1	0	11	90	1.42
1976	PIT	14	1	1	6	94	1.13
1977	PIT	14	0	1	6	79	1.09
1978	PIT	16	0	0	4	82	0.89
1979	PIT	16	0	1	3	100	1.03
1980	PIT	16	0	1	4	73	0.94
1981	PIT	16	0	0	6	78	1.03
1982	PIT	9	0	0	1	53	0.46
1983	PIT	16	0	1	4	88	1.01
Post		19	0	2	4	106	1.22
Total		219	3	15	61		14.59

Defense 2: Punting, Sacks and Team Defense

Season	Sacks	Team Games	Passing Yards Allowed	Team Sacks	Team Sack Yards	Def 2	Defense
1970		14	2555			0.63	0.69
1971		14	3060			0.29	0.48
1972	0.5*	14	2393	40	337	0.58	0.76
1973		14	1923			0.71	0.86
1974		14	1872			0.80	0.90
1975		14	2194			0.76	1.09
1976		14	2179			0.69	0.91
1977		14	2254			0.58	0.83
1978		16	2755			0.72	0.81
1979		16	2912			0.84	0.94
1980		16	3517			0.72	0.83
1981		16	4108			0.53	0.78
1982		9	2385			0.27	0.37
1983		16	3260			0.92	0.96
Post		19	3023			1.10	1.16
Total	0.5					10.14	12.36

* Individual sacks unofficial prior to 1982. Data from research by John Turney via Pro Football Reference.

Offense 1: Yards

Season	KO Ret	P Ret	Int Ret	Off 1
1970	535	52	4	2.10
1971	76		16	0.32
1972			75	0.26
1973			82	0.29
1974	152		74	0.79
1975	139		121	0.84
1976			75	0.25
1977			65	0.23
1978			55	0.18
1979			1	0.00
1980	9		28	0.11
1981			106	0.32
1982			2	0.01
1983			32	0.10
Post			59	0.19
Total	911	52	795	5.98

Offense 2: Scoring

Season	Int TD	FR TD	Off 2	Offense	Total
1970			0.00	1.05	0.87
1971			0.00	0.16	0.32
1972		1	0.30	0.28	0.52
1973			0.00	0.14	0.50
1974	1		0.33	0.56	0.73
1975			0.00	0.42	0.76
1976			0.00	0.12	0.52
1977			0.00	0.11	0.47
1978			0.00	0.09	0.45
1979			0.00	0.00	0.47
1980			0.00	0.06	0.44
1981	1		0.29	0.30	0.54
1982			0.00	0.00	0.18
1983		1	0.27	0.19	0.57
Post			0.00	0.10	0.63
Total	2	2	1.19	3.59	7.97

160-game average: 5.83
Apples & Oranges rating: 8.65

Offensive 160-game average: 2.62
Defensive 160-game average: 9.03

Links:
Pro Football Reference
The Football Database
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