{"id":655120,"date":"2026-01-05T05:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655120\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:32:14","slug":"steelers-defeat-ravens-26-24-win-afc-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655120\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers defeat Ravens, 26-24; Win AFC North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Heyward came back for his next series on defense to help T.J. Watt intercept a Jackson pass that set up the Steelers&#8217; go-ahead points. Heyward batted a third-down pass and Watt intercepted it at the Baltimore 26. It set up a 25-yard field goal by Boswell and the Steelers led 13-10 with 4:28 left in the third.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens, who hadn&#8217;t converted a third down since the middle of the first quarter, converted a third-and-4 in a big way to re-take the lead in the middle of the fourth quarter. Jackson eluded sack attempts by Keeanu Benton and Alex Highsmith to loft a 50-yard touchdown pass to Zay Flowers. The score, with 8:42 left in the game, gave the Ravens a 17-13 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers leaned on their recently named MVP, Gainwell, to re-take the lead. His 2-yard touchdown run on a sweep right gave the Steelers a 20-17 lead. The key play of the drive was a 31-yard pass to Freiermuth down the seam.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens answered quickly. On third-and-1, Jackson faked a pitch right and threw left to a wide-open Flowers for a 60-yard touchdown pass. It gave the Ravens a 24-20 lead with 2:20 to play.<\/p>\n<p>But the Steelers came back. On third-and-10, Austin ran past Ravens cornerback Chidobe Awuzie down the left sideline and Rodgers hit him in the end zone for a 26-yard touchdown with 0:55 left to play. Boswell missed the extra point and the Steelers led by 26-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens&#8217; Keaton Mitchell returned the kickoff 42 yards and Baltimore started its final drive of the season at its 48. A near-sack by Herbig set up a fourth-and-7 at the 50 with 21 seconds left. Jackson eluded Watt to launch a 26-yard completion to Isaiah Likely at the Pittsburgh 24 with 14 seconds left. Jackson took a knee in the middle of the field to set up the 44-yard kick, which Loop pushed right and the Steelers erupted as AFC North champions.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, who had 112 yards rushing at halftime, finished with only 126 to lead all rushers.<\/p>\n<p>Warren led the Steelers with 66 yards on 14 carries. Gainwell caught 8 passes for 64 yards to lead Steelers receivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers will enter the playoffs next week as the AFC&#8217;s No. 4 seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Heyward came back for his next series on defense to help T.J. Watt intercept a Jackson pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,93248,2282,198,7,6,914,169,915,31411],"class_list":["post-655120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-baltimore-ravens-at-pittsburgh-steelers-2025-reg-18","tag-baltimoreravens","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-non-sponsored","tag-ravens","tag-sights-and-sounds","tag-xtra-points"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115840859987433493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655120","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=655120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}