1998 Pittsburgh Steelers Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees

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

Coach: Bill Cowher (7-9-0)

Points For: 263 (16.4/g) 28th of 30

Points Against: 303 (18.9/g) 7th of 30

Expected W-L: 6.7-9.3

SRS: -3.79 (22nd of 30), SOS: -1.29

Offensive Coordinator: Ray Sherman

Defensive Coordinator: Jim Haslett

Other Notable Asst.: David Culley (Wide Receivers), Tim Lewis (Defensive Backs), Mike Mularkey (Tight Ends), Ray Sherman (OC/QBs) and Ron Zook (Special Teams Coordinator)

Stadium: Three Rivers Stadium

General Manager/Director of Football Operations: Tom Donahoe

Chairman: Dan Rooney

Defensive Alignment: 3-4

Preseason Odds: Super Bowl +1200; O/U: 9.5

Training Camp: St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pennsylvania)

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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	263	4586	1014	4.5	32	12	268	274	489	2552	13	20	4.9	135	490	2034	8	4.2	106	79	691	27
Opp. Stats	303	4963	1002	5.0	29	13	266	268	482	3321	17	16	6.3	155	479	1642	8	3.4	88	106	854	23
Lg Rank Offense	28	25			19	15	22		22	29	27	25	27		8	7	24	9
Lg Rank Defense	7	12			16	11	6		9	18	3	17	24		18	13	4	3

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	@	Baltimore Ravens	20	13	14	271	157	114	3	17	376	264	112		-6.94	-3.03	12.69
2	Sun	September 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		2-0		Chicago Bears	17	12	17	251	109	142	1	19	320	190	130	2	-5.79	8.56	2.20
3	Sun	September 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		2-1	@	Miami Dolphins	0	21	13	200	78	122	3	11	219	109	110	1	-27.40	12.00	-3.64
4	Sun	September 27	4:05PM ET	boxscore	W		3-1		Seattle Seahawks	13	10	16	285	100	185		14	230	169	61	4	-7.52	16.16	-3.91
5									Bye Week
6	Sun	October 11	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		3-2	@	Cincinnati Bengals	20	25	20	386	129	257	1	17	389	281	108		7.81	-14.27	-3.31
7	Sun	October 18	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		4-2		Baltimore Ravens	16	6	13	241	162	79	2	16	230	134	96	5	-13.64	22.04	4.63
8	Mon	October 26	8:20PM ET	boxscore	W		5-2	@	Kansas City Chiefs	20	13	20	272	90	182	1	16	290	218	72	3	4.53	3.84	-2.88
9	Sun	November 1	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		5-3		Tennessee Oilers	31	41	26	401	347	54	3	19	321	152	169		0.82	-12.40	-0.25
10	Mon	November 9	8:20PM ET	boxscore	W		6-3		Green Bay Packers	27	20	19	360	218	142	1	17	256	217	39	1	5.56	9.18	-0.51
11	Sun	November 15	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		6-4	@	Tennessee Oilers	14	23	16	310	231	79	2	18	338	230	108	1	-0.88	1.60	-5.02
12	Sun	November 22	1:00PM ET	boxscore	W		7-4		Jacksonville Jaguars	30	15	18	329	208	121		17	301	204	97	4	1.49	23.44	-6.90
13	Thu	November 26	12:30PM ET	boxscore	L	OT	7-5	@	Detroit Lions	16	19	22	293	208	85	2	13	283	213	70	2	-0.72	2.67	-6.07
14	Sun	December 6	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		7-6		New England Patriots	9	23	13	249	195	54	3	19	377	304	73	3	-19.59	5.23	3.67
15	Sun	December 13	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		7-7	@	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	3	16	10	166	78	88	5	14	253	109	144	1	-30.87	7.80	7.59
16	Sun	December 20	1:00PM ET	boxscore	L		7-8		Cincinnati Bengals	24	25	11	211	86	125	2	23	483	359	124	2	-17.48	-4.33	20.91
17	Mon	December 28	8:20PM ET	boxscore	L		7-9	@	Jacksonville Jaguars	3	21	20	361	156	205	3	16	297	168	129		-13.64	-3.36	-1.50

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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	GWD
1	Kordell Stewart	26	QB	16	16	7-9-0	252	458	55.0	2560	11	2.4	18	3.9	125	39.7	55	5.6	4.3	10.2	160.0	62.9	33	211	6.72	4.78	3.6	1
2	Mike Tomczak	36	QB	16	0		21	30	70.0	204	2	6.7	2	6.7	9	43.8	42	6.8	5.1	9.7	12.8	83.2	2	18	6.25	5.81	4.3	0
3	Hines Ward	22	WR	16	0		1	1	100.0	17	0	0.0	0	0.0	1	100.0	17	17.0	17.0	17.0	1.1	118.7	0	0	0.00	17.00	17.0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	7-9-0	274	489	56.0	2552	13	2.7	20	4.1	135	40.1	55	5.7	4.4	10.1	159.5	64.3	35	229	6.68	4.87	3.65	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	Jerome Bettis	26	RB	15	15	316	1185	3	58	42.1	42	3.8	79.0	21.1	23	16	90	5.6	0	2	43.5	26	1.1	6.0	69.6	3.9	332	3.8	1275	3	2
2	Charles Johnson	26	WR	16	16	1	4	0	0	100.0	4	4.0	0.3	0.1	124	65	815	12.5	7	43	44.4	55	4.1	50.9	52.4	6.6	66	12.4	819	7	0
3	Courtney Hawkins	29	WR	15	14	10	41	0	3	40.0	14	4.1	2.7	0.7	109	66	751	11.4	1	39	52.3	53	4.4	50.1	60.6	6.9	76	10.4	792	1	1
4	Kordell Stewart	26	QB	16	16	81	406	2	28	45.7	56	5.0	25.4	5.1	1	1	17	17.0	0	1	100.0	17	0.1	1.1	100.0	17.0	82	5.2	423	2	3
5	Will Blackwell	23	WR	16	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	55	32	297	9.3	1	16	43.6	24	2.0	18.6	58.2	5.4	32	9.3	297	1	1
6	Richard Huntley	26	RB	16	1	55	242	1	9	47.3	48	4.4	15.1	3.4	6	3	18	6.0	0	0	33.3	7	0.2	1.1	50.0	3.0	58	4.5	260	1	5
7	Hines Ward	22	WR	16	0	1	13	0	1	100.0	13	13.0	0.8	0.1	33	15	246	16.4	0	12	42.4	45	0.9	15.4	45.5	7.5	16	16.2	259	0	0
8	Mark Bruener	26	TE	16	16	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	33	19	157	8.3	2	7	54.5	20	1.2	9.8	57.6	4.8	19	8.3	157	2	0
9	Fred McAfee	30	RB	14	0	18	111	0	5	66.7	14	6.2	7.9	1.3	13	9	27	3.0	0	1	7.7	11	0.6	1.9	69.2	2.1	27	5.1	138	0	0
10	Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala	21	RB	12	0	7	30	2	2	42.9	10	4.3	2.5	0.6	12	9	84	9.3	1	3	25.0	26	0.8	7.0	75.0	7.0	16	7.1	114	3	0
11	David Dunn	26	WR	10	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	17	9	87	9.7	0	4	47.1	24	0.9	8.7	52.9	5.1	9	9.7	87	0	1
12	Jon Witman	26	FB	16	9	1	2	0	0	0.0	2	2.0	0.1	0.1	20	13	74	5.7	0	3	30.0	15	0.8	4.6	65.0	3.7	14	5.4	76	0	0
13	Andre Coleman	26	WR	4	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	13	4	49	12.3	1	3	23.1	13	1.0	12.3	30.8	3.8	4	12.3	49	1	1
14	Tim Lester	30	FB	9	7	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	13	9	46	5.1	0	0	0.0	9	1.0	5.1	69.2	3.5	9	5.1	46	0	0
15	Mitch Lyons	28	TE	15	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	4	3	19	6.3	0	1	50.0	11	0.2	1.3	75.0	4.8	3	6.3	19	0	0
16	Harold Bishop	28	TE	7	1	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	3	1	4	4.0	0	0	0.0	4	0.1	0.6	33.3	1.3	1	4.0	4	0	0
17	Jahine Arnold	25	WR	3	0	0	0	0	0				0.0	0.0	4	0	0		0	0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0		0	0	0
	Team Totals			16	16	490	2034	8	106	44.3	56	4.2	127.1	30.6	483	274	2781	10.1	13	135	42.2	55	17.1	173.8	56.7	5.8	764	6.3	4815	21	14

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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	Dermontti Dawson	33	C	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-25	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	PB,AP-1
2	Lee Flowers	25	SS	16	16	1	2	0	2	3	0	2	0	0	1.0	101	78	23	0
3	Jason Gildon	26	LOLB	16	16	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	11.0	54	42	12	0
4	Kevin Henry	30	RDE	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	40	27	13	0
5	Levon Kirkland	29	LILB	16	16	1	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	2.5	117	79	38	0	AP DPoY-6
6	Carnell Lake	31	LCB	16	16	4	33	1	27	0	0	1	-2	0	1.0	69	63	6	0
7	Joel Steed	29	NT	16	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	49	37	12	0
8	Kordell Stewart	26	QB	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
9	Dewayne Washington	26	RCB	16	16	5	178	2	78	0	0	2	0	0	0.0	93	79	14	0
10	Jerome Bettis	26	RB	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Carlos Emmons	25	ROLB	15	14	1	2	0	2	3	0	1	0	0	3.5	63	46	17	0
12	Courtney Hawkins	29	WR	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
13	Earl Holmes	25	RILB	14	14	1	36	0	36	0	0	0	0	0	1.5	80	55	25	0
14	Darren Perry	30	FS	14	14	2	69	0	40	1	1	1	0	0	0.5	68	54	14	0
15	Will Wolford	34	LT	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Orpheus Roye	25	LDE	16	9	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3.5	42	29	13	0
17	Nolan Harrison	29	LDE	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.5	19	11	8	0
18	Donta Jones	26	LB	16	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	28	17	11	0
19	Will Blackwell	23	WR	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Steve Conley	26	LB	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	1	1	0
21	Richard Huntley	26	RB	16	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	Chris Oldham	30	DB	16	1	1	14	0	14	0	0	5	79	1	0.5	25	17	8	0
23	Bo Orlando	32	DB	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	3	2	1	0
24	Lance Brown	26	DB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Andre Coleman	26	WR	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	David Dunn	26	WR	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
27	John Fiala	25	LB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	0	2	0
28	Oliver Gibson	26	DE	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	15	10	5	0
29	Rod Manuel	24	DE	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	1	0	0
30	Jason Simmons	22	DB	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	8	7	1	0
31	Mike Tomczak	36	QB	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
32	Deshea Townsend	23	DB	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	11	9	2	0
33	Mike Vrabel	23	LB	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	9	6	3	0
	Team Totals			16	16	16	335	3	78	17	18	19	53	1	41.0	899	670	229	0

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