Age: 24
3rd
season in pro football & with Seahawks
College: UCLA
Height: 6’2” Weight: 193
Prelude:
Undrafted
coming out of college, Johnson signed with the Seahawks and made the club,
hitting on 10 of 14 field goal attempts during the strike-shortened 1982
season. He followed up with another solid year in ’83, kicking 18 field goals
out of 25 attempts and 49 of his 50 extra point tries for a total of 103
points.
1984 Season Summary
Appeared in
all 16 games
[Bracketed
numbers indicate league rank in Top 20]
Kicking
Field goals –
20 [14, tied with five others]
Most field
goals, game – 4 vs. Cleveland 9/3
Field goal
attempts – 24
Most field
goal attempts, game – 4 vs. Cleveland 9/3
Field goal
percentage – 83.3 [3]
PATs – 50 [3]
PAT attempts
– 51 [3, tied with Mark Moseley & Neil O’Donoghue]
Longest field
goal – 50 yards vs. Cleveland 9/3
Scoring
Field Goals –
20
PATs – 50
Points – 110
[7]
Postseason: 2
G
Field goals –
3
Most field
goals, game – 2 vs. LA Raiders, AFC Wild Card playoff
Field goal
attempts – 4
Most field
goal attempts, game – 2 vs. LA Raiders, AFC Wild Card playoff; at Miami, AFC
Divisional playoff
PATs – 2
Most PATs,
game – 1 vs. LA Raiders, AFC Wild Card playoff; at Miami, AFC Divisional playoff
PAT attempts
– 2
Longest field
goal – 44 yards vs. LA Raiders, AFC Wild Card playoff
Awards & Honors:
1st
team All-NFL: AP, PFWA, Pro Football Weekly, Sporting News
2nd
team All-NFL: NEA
1st
team All-AFC: UPI, Pro Football Weekly
Pro Bowl
Seahawks went
12-4 to finish second in the AFC West and qualified for the postseason as a
Wild Card. Won AFC Wild Card playoff over Los Angeles Raiders (13-7). Lost AFC
Divisional playoff to Miami Dolphins (31-10).
Aftermath:
Outstanding
at kicking off as well as consistent on field goals, Johnson went on to spend
nine seasons with the Seahawks, through 1990. He left as the franchise leader
in field goals (159) and scoring (810 points). Johnson went on to spend four
years with Atlanta, gaining Pro Bowl recognition in 1993 when he was successful
on 26 of 27 field goal attempts for a league-leading percentage of 96.3. Joining
Pittsburgh in 1995 he led the NFL with a career-high 34 field goals and the AFC
by scoring 141 points. He spent four years with the Steelers and finished his
career with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1999 at the age of 39. Over the course
of 18 seasons, Johnson kicked 366 field goals in 477 attempts (76.7 %) and 638
PATs for a total of 1736 points, which ranked fourth in NFL history at the
time. He added another 20 field goals in 26 postseason attempts, including four
in Pittsburgh’s AFC Divisional playoff win over Buffalo following the 1995
season. Johnson received consensus first-team All-NFL honors after one season, some
first- and second-team recognition after one other year, and was twice selected
to the Pro Bowl.
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Highlighted Years features players who were consensus
first-team All-League* selections or league* or conference** leaders in the
following statistical categories:
Rushing:
Yards, TDs (min. 10)
Passing:
Yards, Completion Pct., Yards per Attempt, TDs, Rating
Receiving:
Catches, Yards, TDs (min. 10)
Scoring: TDs,
Points, Field Goals (min. 5)
All-Purpose:
Total Yards
Defense:
Interceptions, Sacks
Kickoff
Returns: Average
Punt Returns:
Average
Punting:
Average
*Leagues
include NFL (1920 to date), AFL (1926), AFL (1936-37), AAFC (1946-49), AFL
(1960-69), WFL (1974-75), USFL (1983-85)
**NFC/AFC
since 1970
