{"id":649121,"date":"2026-01-02T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:08:12","slug":"full-injury-report-for-playoff-clinching-steelers-ravens-week-18-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649121\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Injury Report For Playoff-Clinching Steelers-Ravens Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens will square off on the NFL\u2019s biggest stage Sunday night with two seasons on the line. The winner will be crowned champion of the AFC North, the loser will have thier season ended at Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams\u2019 quarterbacks have missed time this year, but each appeared as a full participant in the final injury report of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a full participant in every practice this week as he continues to maneuver a fractured left wrist he suffered weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, T.J. Watt is finally trending towards a return to play after the freak dry needling incident that kept him sidelined each of the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The injury report is rather bare, but the Steelers will also, of course, be missing their most dangerous offensive weapon, DK Metcalf.<\/p>\n<p>Metcalf is serving the final game of his two-game suspension on Sunday. He is far and away the team\u2019s leading receiver with nearly three times as many yards as the next highest wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Metcalf, both squads are shaping up to be at nearly full strength in a game that former Steelers head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/47465881\/baltimore-ravens-pittsburgh-steelers-week-18-winner-takes-afc-north-title-playoffs-going-slugfest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bill Cowher predicts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bill Cowher predicts <\/a>will not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be a slugfest,\u201d Cowher said. \u201cAnd this is going to be one of those games where it becomes very personal. This is going to go back to the old Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens game. You know what? No hitting during the week because we\u2019re going to leave it all out on that field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More Pittsburgh Steelers: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/01\/02\/recent-history-on-steelers-side-entering-pivotal-ravens-matchup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Recent History On Steelers\u2019 Side Entering Pivotal Ravens Matchup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Recent History On Steelers\u2019 Side Entering Pivotal Ravens Matchup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/01\/02\/full-injury-report-for-playoff-clinching-steelers-ravens-week-18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Full Injury Report For Playoff-Clinching Steelers-Ravens Week 18;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Full Injury Report For Playoff-Clinching Steelers-Ravens Week 18<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SportsNet Pittsburgh;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SportsNet Pittsburgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens will square off on the NFL\u2019s biggest stage Sunday night with two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[1586,117,19409,2870,7,17416,895,7142,7049,6,84,57,13052,8576],"class_list":{"0":"post-649121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-bill-cowher","11":"tag-dk-metcalf","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-injury-report","14":"tag-lamar-jackson","15":"tag-marlon-humphrey","16":"tag-mike-garafolo","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-playoffs","19":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","20":"tag-rashod-bateman","21":"tag-tj-watt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115827789297614496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}