2002 Pittsburgh Steelers Statistics
Team Record: 10-5-1
Finishing 1st in the NFL's North Division of the American Football Conference
Postseason: 1-1 Lost Division Playoff
Coach: Bill Cowher (10-5-1)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002 Pittsburgh Steelers Results
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League ended the 2002 season with a record of 10 wins and 5 losses and 1 ties, finishing first in the NFL's North Division of the American Football Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 1-1.
Pittsburgh scored 390 points, while the defense yielded 345. Tommy Maddox threw for 2,836 yards. Hines Ward paced all receivers, grabbing 112 passes for 1,329 yards. Plaxico Burress provided receiving help as well.
Amos Zereoue carried the ball for a team-best 762 yards for the Steelers, while Jerome Bettis also buoyed the ground attack.
The sticky-fingered defense manufactured 36 turnovers. Joey Porter and Brent Alexander each picked off 4 opponent throws. Jason Gildon and Joey Porter each sacked opposing passers 9 times, leading the way for a team which created 50 sacks.
Bill Cowher coached the team. The 2002 Pittsburgh Steelers lost in the Division Playoff.
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Passing:
| Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating | Tommy Maddox | 377 | 234 | 62.1 | 2836 | 7.5 | 20 | 5.3 | 16 | 4.2 | 72 | 26 | 148 | 85.2 | Kordell Stewart | 166 | 109 | 65.7 | 1155 | 7.0 | 6 | 3.6 | 6 | 3.6 | 64 | 7 | 46 | 82.8 | Antwaan Randle El | 8 | 7 | 87.5 | 45 | 5.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 25 | 1 | 10 | 90.1 |
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| Totals | 551 | 350 | 63.5 | 4036 | 7.3 | 26 | 4.7 | 22 | 4.0 | 72 | 34 | 204 |
Rushing:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs | Amos Zereoue | 193 | 762 | 3.9 | 42 | 4 | Jerome Bettis | 187 | 666 | 3.6 | 41 | 9 | Kordell Stewart | 43 | 191 | 4.4 | 25 | 2 | Hines Ward | 12 | 142 | 11.8 | 39 | 0 | Antwaan Randle El | 19 | 134 | 7.1 | 24 | 0 | Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala | 23 | 115 | 5.0 | 17 | 0 | Verron Haynes | 10 | 51 | 5.1 | 20 | 0 | Tommy Maddox | 19 | 43 | 2.3 | 21 | 0 | Dan Kreider | 6 | 16 | 2.7 | 5 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 512 | 2120 | 4.1 | 42 | 15 |
Receiving:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs | Hines Ward | 112 | 1329 | 11.9 | 72 | 12 | Plaxico Burress | 78 | 1325 | 17.0 | 62 | 7 | Antwaan Randle El | 47 | 489 | 10.4 | 36 | 2 | Amos Zereoue | 42 | 341 | 8.1 | 54 | 0 | Terance Mathis | 23 | 218 | 9.5 | 22 | 2 | Dan Kreider | 18 | 122 | 6.8 | 15 | 1 | Mark Bruener | 13 | 66 | 5.1 | 10 | 1 | Jerome Bettis | 7 | 57 | 8.1 | 15 | 0 | Jerame Tuman | 4 | 63 | 15.8 | 27 | 1 | Verron Haynes | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | 7 | 0 | Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | 6 | 0 | Matt Cushing | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 350 | 4036 | 11.5 | 72 | 26 |
Kicking:
| Player | X/CA | X/CM | X/CP % | FGA | FGM | FG % | Pts. | Jeff Reed | 11 | 10 | 90.9 | 19 | 17 | 89.5 | 61 | Todd Peterson | 26 | 25 | 96.2 | 21 | 12 | 57.1 | 61 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 37 | 35 | 94.6 | 40 | 29 | 72.5 | 122 |
Punting:
Punt Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs | Antwaan Randle El | 37 | 257 | 6.9 | 29 | 0 | Hank Poteat | 4 | 29 | 7.2 | 11 | 0 | Chad Scott | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 42 | 290 | 6.9 | 29 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs | Antwaan Randle El | 32 | 733 | 22.9 | 99 | 1 | Lee Mays | 32 | 671 | 21.0 | 35 | 0 | Hank Poteat | 5 | 103 | 20.6 | 25 | 0 | Dan Kreider | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 | Rodney Bailey | 1 | 12 | 12.0 | 12 | 0 | John Allred | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 7 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 72 | 1544 | 21.4 | 99 | 1 |
Interceptions:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs | Joey Porter | 4 | 153 | 38.2 | 84 | 0 | Brent Alexander | 4 | 37 | 9.2 | 25 | 0 | Dewayne Washington | 3 | 51 | 17.0 | 28 | 0 | Deshea Townsend | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | Lee Flowers | 2 | 31 | 15.5 | 25 | 0 | Chad Scott | 2 | 30 | 15.0 | 30 | 1 | Mike Logan | 1 | 46 | 46.0 | 46 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 19 | 351 | 18.5 | 84 | 1 |
Sacks:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Joey Porter | 9.0 | 0.0 | Jason Gildon | 9.0 | 0.0 | Clark Haggans | 6.5 | 0.0 | Rodney Bailey | 5.5 | 0.0 | Aaron Smith | 5.5 | 0.0 | Kendrell Bell | 4.0 | 0.0 | Lee Flowers | 4.0 | 0.0 | Kimo von Oelhoffen | 3.0 | 0.0 | Casey Hampton | 2.0 | 0.0 | Brent Alexander | 1.0 | 0.0 | Mike Logan | 0.5 | 0.0 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
| Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF | Chad Scott | 74.5 | 66 | 17 | 16 | 0 | Joey Porter | 75 | 61 | 28 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | James Farrior | 71 | 60 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Aaron Smith | 63.5 | 55 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lee Flowers | 62.5 | 52 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Brent Alexander | 62.5 | 50 | 25 | 0 | 0 | Jason Gildon | 55.5 | 45 | 21 | 0 | Dewayne Washington | 49.5 | 45 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Deshea Townsend | 43.5 | 40 | 7 | 10 | 0 | Kendrell Bell | 43.5 | 37 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mike Logan | 37.5 | 33 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Casey Hampton | 32.5 | 24 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 2 | Clark Haggans | 31.5 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Chris Hope | 21 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Rodney Bailey | 21.5 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hank Poteat | 17.5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Larry Foote | 16.5 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kimo von Oelhoffen | 17 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chidi Iwuoma | 12.5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | John Fiala | 4.5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Brett Keisel | 3.5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kendrick Clancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Tommy Maddox | 8 | 5 | -3 | 0 | 0 | Kordell Stewart | 4 | 2 | -10 | 0 | 0 | Alan Faneca | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Antwaan Randle El | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Plaxico Burress | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mike Jones | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dan Kreider | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Hines Ward | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Todd Peterson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Amos Zereoue | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Jerome Bettis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Chukky Okobi | 1 | 0 | -13 | 0 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals | 817.5 | 689 | 257 | 63 | 26 | 29 | 23 | 0 | 8 |
Total Scoring:
| Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
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| Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points | Hines Ward | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 78 | Todd Peterson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 61 | Jeff Reed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 61 | Jerome Bettis | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | Plaxico Burress | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 44 | Amos Zereoue | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | Antwaan Randle El | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | Terance Mathis | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | Kordell Stewart | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | Dan Kreider | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | Chad Scott | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Mark Bruener | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | Jerame Tuman | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Totals | 15 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 35 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 390 |
