2009 Pittsburgh Steelers Statistics
National Football League (NFL)
Team Record: 9-7
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's North Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Mike Tomlin (9-7)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2009 Pittsburgh Steelers RosterTeam Record: 9-7
Finishing 2nd in the NFL's North Division of the American Football Conference
Coach: Mike Tomlin (9-7)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2009 Pittsburgh Steelers Results
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League ended the 2009 season with a record of 9 wins and 7 losses, finishing second in the NFL's North Division of the American Football Conference.
The Steelers netted 368 points, and the defensive squad surrendered 324. Ben Roethlisberger triggered the aerial attack, slinging for 4,328 yards. Hines Ward grabbed 95 passes, while Santonio Holmes accumulated 1,248 receiving yards. Heath Miller contributed to the receiving game, too.
Rashard Mendenhall carried the ball for a team-best 1,108 yards for Pittsburgh.
Troy Polamalu and Ryan Clark each seized 3 opponent throws. LaMarr Woodley topped pass rushers with 13.5 quarterback sacks, topping a defense credited with 46 sacks.
Mike Tomlin coached the team.
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Passing:
| Player | Att | Comp | Comp % | Yds | Yds/Att | TDs | TD % | Ints | Int % | Long | Sacked | Yds Lost | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Roethlisberger | 506 | 337 | 66.6 | 4328 | 8.6 | 26 | 5.1 | 12 | 2.4 | 60 | 50 | 348 | 100.5 |
| Dennis Dixon | 26 | 12 | 46.2 | 145 | 5.6 | 1 | 3.8 | 1 | 3.8 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 60.6 |
| Charlie Batch | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 17 | 8.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 79.2 |
| Mewelde Moore | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 6 | 6.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 131.3 |
| Santonio Holmes | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.6 |
| Totals | 536 | 351 | 65.5 | 4496 | 8.4 | 28 | 5.2 | 13 | 2.4 | 60 | 50 | 348 |
Rushing:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashard Mendenhall | 242 | 1108 | 4.6 | 60 | 7 |
| Willie Parker | 98 | 389 | 4.0 | 34 | 0 |
| Mewelde Moore | 35 | 118 | 3.4 | 15 | 0 |
| Ben Roethlisberger | 40 | 82 | 2.0 | 15 | 2 |
| Mike Wallace | 5 | 48 | 9.6 | 21 | 0 |
| Dennis Dixon | 3 | 27 | 9.0 | 24 | 1 |
| Carey Davis | 2 | 15 | 7.5 | 14 | 0 |
| Santonio Holmes | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | 7 | 0 |
| Totals | 428 | 1793 | 4.2 | 60 | 10 |
Receiving:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hines Ward | 95 | 1167 | 12.3 | 54 | 6 |
| Santonio Holmes | 79 | 1248 | 15.8 | 57 | 5 |
| Heath Miller | 76 | 789 | 10.4 | 41 | 6 |
| Mike Wallace | 39 | 756 | 19.4 | 60 | 6 |
| Rashard Mendenhall | 25 | 261 | 10.4 | 26 | 1 |
| Mewelde Moore | 21 | 153 | 7.3 | 19 | 2 |
| Willie Parker | 6 | 64 | 10.7 | 27 | 1 |
| Matt Speath | 5 | 25 | 5.0 | 9 | 1 |
| David Johnson | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 5 | 0 |
| Tyler Grisham | 1 | 14 | 14.0 | 14 | 0 |
| Limas Sweed | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| Stefan Logan | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
| Totals | 351 | 4496 | 12.8 | 60 | 28 |
Kicking:
Punting:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Sepulveda | 72 | 3074 | 42.7 | 60 |
| Totals | 72 | 3074 | 42.7 | 60 |
Punt Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Logan | 30 | 280 | 9.3 | 25 | 0 |
| Santonio Holmes | 2 | 6 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
| Mewelde Moore | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 2 | 0 |
| James Harrison | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 36 | 290 | 8.1 | 25 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Logan | 55 | 1466 | 26.7 | 83 | 0 |
| Mewelde Moore | 4 | 44 | 11.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Mike Wallace | 1 | 26 | 26.0 | 26 | 0 |
| Joe Burnett | 3 | 23 | 7.7 | 13 | 0 |
| Carey Davis | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
| Rashard Mendenhall | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 8 | 0 |
| Matt Speath | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 66 | 1581 | 24.0 | 83 | 0 |
Interceptions:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troy Polamalu | 3 | 17 | 5.7 | 16 | 0 |
| Ryan Clark | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tyrone Carter | 2 | 53 | 26.5 | 48 | 1 |
| Keyaron Fox | 1 | 82 | 82.0 | 82 | 1 |
| Ike Taylor | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 20 | 0 |
| James Farrior | 1 | 18 | 18.0 | 18 | 0 |
| Deshea Townsend | 1 | -1 | -1.0 | -1 | 0 |
| Totals | 12 | 189 | 15.8 | 82 | 2 |
Sacks:
| Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaMarr Woodley | 13.5 | 0.0 | |
| James Harrison | 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| Lawrence Timmons | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
| James Farrior | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| Brett Keisel | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
| Casey Hampton | 2.5 | 0.0 | |
| Aaron Smith | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
| William Gay | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Tyrone Carter | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Travis Kirschke | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Evander Hood | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Ike Taylor | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
| Totals | 46.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
| Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Farrior | 85 | 68 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ryan Clark | 78 | 68 | 20 | 8 | |||||
| William Gay | 71 | 67 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| James Harrison | 69.5 | 60 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Lawrence Timmons | 66 | 55 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Ike Taylor | 56.5 | 52 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| LaMarr Woodley | 56.5 | 51 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 77 | 1 | 1 |
| Tyrone Carter | 55 | 49 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| Brett Keisel | 45 | 36 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Deshea Townsend | 25.5 | 24 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Casey Hampton | 33 | 23 | 20 | ||||||
| Keyaron Fox | 24.5 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Troy Polamalu | 19 | 18 | 2 | 7 | |||||
| Travis Kirschke | 21 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Nick Eason | 15.5 | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Aaron Smith | 7.5 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| Ryan Mundy | 9 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Evander Hood | 6.5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0 |
| Heath Miller | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Keiwan Ratliff | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| Joe Burnett | 5.5 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
| Mike Wallace | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Max Starks | 2.5 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Rashard Mendenhall | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Chris Hoke | 2.5 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Mewelde Moore | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Doug Legursky | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Limas Sweed | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Corey Ivy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Santonio Holmes | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Justin Hartwig | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Andre Frazier | 3 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Arnold Harrison | 2.5 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Stefan Logan | 2.5 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rocky Boiman | 2 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Anthony Madison | 1.5 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Donovan Woods | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Ben Roethlisberger | 7 | 2 | -6 | 0 | |||||
| Willie Parker | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Matt Speath | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Carey Davis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Hines Ward | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Totals | 786.5 | 661 | 251 | 70 | 21 | 17 | 82 | 1 | 14 |
Total Scoring:
| Touchdowns | Other | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Rush | Rec | Punt | Kick | MFG | Int | Fum | Other | FG | X/C | Single | 2Pt | Saf | Points |
| Jeff Reed | 27 | 41 | 0 | 122 | ||||||||||
| Rashard Mendenhall | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | |||||||
| Heath Miller | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||||
| Mike Wallace | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||
| Hines Ward | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |||||||||
| Santonio Holmes | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |||||||
| Ben Roethlisberger | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||||||
| Mewelde Moore | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
| LaMarr Woodley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Matt Speath | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
| Dennis Dixon | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Willie Parker | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
| Keyaron Fox | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Tyrone Carter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
| Totals | 10 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 368 |
