Sep 9, 2001 · 2001 WK 1 · Alltel Stadium · outdoors
01/Box score
61 lines
Both sides
Both sides
PITTSBURGH STEELERS 3
PASSING
| Player | POS | C/ATT | YDS | Y/A | TD | INT | SK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kordell Stewart | QB | 21/37 | 181 | 4.9 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
 Mark Brunell | QB | 15/26 | 198 | 7.6 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
RUSHING
| Player | POS | CAR | YDS | Y/C | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Fred Taylor | RB | 24 | 96 | 4.00 | 0 |
 Jerome Bettis | RB | 12 | 28 | 2.33 | 0 |
| Amos Zereoue | RB | 9 | 60 | 6.67 | 0 |
| Kordell Stewart | QB | 6 | 31 | 5.17 | 0 |
| Mark Brunell | QB | 3 | 7 | 2.33 | 0 |
| Stacey Mack | RB | 1 | -2 | -2.00 | 0 |
 Hines Ward | WR | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 |
| Chris Hanson | P | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
RECEIVING
| Player | POS | TGT | REC | YDS | Y/R | TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hines Ward | WR | 11 | 7 | 82 | 11.7 | 0 |
| Jimmy Smith | WR | 9 | 8 | 126 | 15.8 | 2 |
| Kyle Brady | TE | 7 | 3 | 39 | 13.0 | 0 |
 Plaxico Burress | WR | 5 | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 |
| Bobby Shaw | WR | 4 | 3 | 20 | 6.7 | 0 |
| Damon Jones | TE | 4 | 2 | 23 | 11.5 | 1 |
| Mark Bruener | TE | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 0 |
| Troy Edwards | WR | 3 | 1 | 17 | 17.0 | 0 |
| Amos Zereoue | RB | 2 | 2 | 14 | 7.0 | 0 |
| Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala | RB | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7.0 | 0 |
| Fred Taylor | RB | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 |
 Keenan McCardell | WR | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 |
| Sean Dawkins | WR | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |
| Jerome Bettis | RB | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 |
| Jon Witman | FB | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3.0 | 0 |
| Will Blackwell | WR | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8.0 | 0 |
| Jerame Tuman | TE | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |
DEFENSE
| Player | POS | TKL | SOLO | SACK | TFL | INT | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Hardy | OLB | 11 | 10 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Hardy Nickerson | MLB | 10 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Earl Holmes | MLB | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
 Joey Porter | OLB | 7 | 7 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brent Alexander | FS | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fernando Bryant | DB | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lee Flowers | DB | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
 Aaron Smith | DE | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Donovin Darius | DB | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Paul Spicer | DE | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Rob Meier | DT | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aaron Beasley | CB | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Deshea Townsend | DB | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dewayne Washington | DB | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Marcus Stroud | DE | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Renaldo Wynn | DE | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jason Gildon | LB | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Tuipala | LB | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jason Craft | CB | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Jason Simmons | DB | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Marlon McCree | DB | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Amos Zereoue | RB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jon Witman | FB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hines Ward | WR | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Troy Edwards | WR | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wayne Gandy | T | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gary Walker | DE | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimo von Oelhoffen | DT | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rodney Bailey | DE | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
 Clark Haggans | LB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Edward Thomas | OLB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T.J. Slaughter | LB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ainsley Battles | DB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| James Boyd | DB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kiwaukee Thomas | DB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mike Logan | DB | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
KICKING
| Player | POS | PTS |
|---|---|---|
 Kris Brown | K | 3 |
| Mike Hollis | K | 3 |
Kicking points are complete; field-goal makes and attempts are present on 1,054 of 450,176 rows and are not shown.
A player appears under a heading only if he recorded something there, so these tables are shorter than the roster that dressed. A dash is an absent figure rather than a recorded zero. Sacks carry a half, which is why that column shows a decimal, and the sack column in the passing table is times the passer was sacked, not sacks he made. There is no scoring summary or drive chart here: the play log carries no field position, no down and no distance, so a drive cannot be reconstructed and one is not guessed at. Where the play-type panel is missing, this fixture predates the play log, which begins in 2020. Where a box score is missing entirely, no per-player line was published for it.