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1984 Denver Broncos Statistics
Team Record: 13-3
Finishing 1st in the NFL's West Division of the American Football Conference
Postseason: 0-1 Lost Division Playoff
Coach: Dan Reeves (13-3)
Location: Denver, Colorado
1984 Denver Broncos Results
The Denver Broncos of the National Football League ended the 1984 season with a record of 13 wins and 3 losses, finishing first in the NFL's West Division of the American Football Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 0-1.
The Broncos scored 353 points, and the rigid defensive squad allowed 241. John Elway threw for 2,598 yards. Steve Watson paced pass catchers, hauling in 69 passes for 1,170 yards.
Sammy Winder ran for a team-best 1,153 yards for Denver.
The opportunistic defense pounced on 55 turnovers. Steve Foley and Mike Harden each snatched 6 errant tosses from the opposition. Rulon Jones topped the defensive unit with 11 quarterback sacks, topping a defense credited with 57 sacks.
Dan Reeves coached the team. The 1984 Denver Broncos 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Elway | 380 | 214 | 56.3 | 2598 | 6.8 | 18 | 4.7 | 15 | 3.9 | 73 | 24 | 158 | 76.8 |
Gary Kubiak | 75 | 44 | 58.7 | 440 | 5.9 | 4 | 5.3 | 1 | 1.3 | 41 | 10 | 86 | 87.6 |
Scott Stankavage | 18 | 4 | 22.2 | 58 | 3.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 5.6 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 17.4 |
Gerald Willhite | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 20 | 10.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 85.4 |
Totals | 475 | 263 | 55.4 | 3116 | 6.6 | 22 | 4.6 | 17 | 3.6 | 73 | 35 | 257 |
Rushing:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sammy Winder | 296 | 1153 | 3.9 | 24 | 4 |
Gerald Willhite | 77 | 371 | 4.8 | 52 | 2 |
John Elway | 56 | 237 | 4.2 | 21 | 1 |
Rick Parros | 46 | 208 | 4.5 | 25 | 2 |
Gene Lang | 8 | 42 | 5.2 | 15 | 2 |
Chris Brewer | 10 | 28 | 2.8 | 8 | 0 |
Gary Kubiak | 9 | 27 | 3.0 | 17 | 1 |
Jesse Myles | 5 | 7 | 1.4 | 2 | 0 |
Butch Johnson | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 508 | 2076 | 4.1 | 52 | 12 |
Receiving:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Steve Watson | 69 | 1170 | 17.0 | 73 | 7 |
Sammy Winder | 44 | 288 | 6.5 | 21 | 2 |
Butch Johnson | 42 | 587 | 14.0 | 49 | 6 |
Gerald Willhite | 27 | 298 | 11.0 | 63 | 0 |
John Sawyer | 17 | 122 | 7.2 | 25 | 0 |
Clarence Kay | 16 | 136 | 8.5 | 21 | 3 |
James Wright | 11 | 118 | 10.7 | 21 | 1 |
Clint Sampson | 9 | 123 | 13.7 | 25 | 1 |
Ray Alexander | 8 | 132 | 16.5 | 41 | 1 |
Rick Parros | 6 | 25 | 4.2 | 9 | 0 |
Gene Lang | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | 9 | 1 |
Don Summers | 3 | 32 | 10.7 | 16 | 0 |
Jesse Myles | 2 | 22 | 11.0 | 12 | 0 |
Chris Brewer | 2 | 20 | 10.0 | 16 | 0 |
Gary Kubiak | 1 | 20 | 20.0 | 20 | 0 |
Dave Logan | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 3 | 0 |
Dave Studdard | 1 | -4 | -4.0 | -4 | 0 |
Totals | 263 | 3116 | 11.8 | 73 | 22 |
Kicking:
Punting:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Norman | 96 | 3850 | 40.1 | 83 |
Totals | 96 | 3850 | 40.1 | 83 |
Punt Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gerald Willhite | 20 | 200 | 10.0 | 35 | 0 |
Zach Thomas | 20 | 118 | 5.9 | 15 | 0 |
Steve Wilson | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 41 | 318 | 7.8 | 35 | 0 |
Kick Returns:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gene Lang | 19 | 404 | 21.3 | 38 | 0 |
Zach Thomas | 18 | 351 | 19.5 | 33 | 0 |
Gerald Willhite | 4 | 109 | 27.2 | 40 | 0 |
Rick Dennison | 2 | 27 | 13.5 | 16 | 0 |
Mike Harden | 1 | 4 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 |
Aaron Smith | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 |
Totals | 45 | 897 | 19.9 | 40 | 0 |
Interceptions:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. | Long | TDs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Steve Foley | 6 | 97 | 16.2 | 40 | 1 |
Mike Harden | 6 | 79 | 13.2 | 45 | 1 |
Steve Wilson | 4 | 59 | 14.8 | 22 | 0 |
Dennis Smith | 3 | 13 | 4.3 | 10 | 0 |
Karl Mecklenburg | 2 | 105 | 52.5 | 63 | 0 |
Randy Robbins | 2 | 62 | 31.0 | 62 | 1 |
Steve Busick | 2 | 21 | 10.5 | 16 | 0 |
Ken Woodard | 1 | 27 | 27.0 | 27 | 1 |
Roger Jackson | 1 | 23 | 23.0 | 23 | 0 |
Jim Ryan | 1 | 13 | 13.0 | 13 | 0 |
Tony Lilly | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Darren Comeaux | 1 | 5 | 5.0 | 5 | 0 |
Louis Wright | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 |
Totals | 31 | 510 | 16.5 | 63 | 4 |
Sacks:
Player | No. | Yds | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|
Rulon Jones | 11.0 | 0.0 | |
Barney Chavous | 7.5 | 0.0 | |
Karl Mecklenburg | 7.0 | 0.0 | |
Tom Jackson | 6.0 | 0.0 | |
Andre Townsend | 5.0 | 0.0 | |
Ken Woodard | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Jim Ryan | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Walt Bowyer | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Rubin Carter | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Rick Dennison | 3.0 | 0.0 | |
Scott Garnett | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Darren Comeaux | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Randy Robbins | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Steve Busick | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Dennis Smith | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
Steve Wilson | 0.5 | 0.0 | |
Totals | 57.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
Defense and Fumbles:
Player | Tackle | Solo | Ast | Brup | Fum | FRec | FYds | FTD | FF |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dennis Smith | 92 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 1 | 0 |
Karl Mecklenburg | 41 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
John Elway | 14 | 5 | -10 | 0 | |||||
Rubin Carter | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Mike Harden | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Zach Thomas | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Louis Wright | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 0 | |||
Rulon Jones | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Gerald Willhite | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Sammy Winder | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Steve Foley | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 0 | |||
John Sawyer | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Jim Ryan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Tony Lilly | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
Don Summers | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Scott Garnett | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Chris Brewer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gene Lang | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |||||
Walt Bowyer | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Chris Norman | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Scott Stankavage | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Rick Dennison | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Andre Townsend | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Darren Comeaux | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Steve Wilson | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Ken Lanier | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Steve Busick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
Randy Robbins | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Tom Jackson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gary Kubiak | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Clarence Kay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Aaron Smith | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bill Bryan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Clint Sampson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Butch Johnson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 133 | 133 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 42 | 117 | 4 | 0 |
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 |
Rich Karlis | 21 | 38 | 0 | 101 | ||||||||||
Steve Watson | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | |||||||||
Butch Johnson | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||||
Sammy Winder | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | ||||||||
Gene Lang | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||
Clarence Kay | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||||||
Rick Parros | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Steve Foley | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||
Gerald Willhite | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
Clint Sampson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Ray Alexander | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Rulon Jones | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
James Wright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Louis Wright | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Dennis Smith | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
John Elway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Ken Woodard | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Mike Harden | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Randy Robbins | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||
Gary Kubiak | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||
Totals | 12 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 353 |