{"id":658969,"date":"2026-01-06T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658969\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:30:14","slug":"steelers-get-good-news-on-injury-front-ahead-of-texans-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/658969\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Get Good News on Injury Front ahead of Texans Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-injury-updates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers Injury Updates<\/a>\u2022<a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/12-7-2025-Steelers-v-Ravens-4495.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Tomlin\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Steelers head caoch Mike Tomlin during a game against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 7, 2025. &#8212; Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin revealed during his Tuesday press conference that his unit came out of Sunday night\u2019s win over the Baltimore Ravens relatively healthy. <\/p>\n<p>There were some \u201cbumps and bruises associated with play\u201d but nothing major. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a relatively healthy group as we lean in on the single-elimination tournament,\u201d Tomlin said. <\/p>\n<p>All players that returned to action last week did so without injury. The Steelers have a healthy 53 entering Monday night\u2019s AFC Wild Card game against the Houston Texans at Acrisure Stadium. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/12-21-2025-Steelerrs-v-Lions-9784-scaled-e1766702072941.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers DB Jalen Ramsey\" class=\"wp-image-158593\"  \/>Pittsburgh Steelers DB Jalen Ramsey in a game against the Detroit Lions on Dec. 21, 2025. \u2014 Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now<\/p>\n<p>Safety Jalen Ramsey was the only Steelers player that left the game on Sunday night due to an injury. Ramsey was covering Ravens tight end Mark Andrews on a crosser route when receiver Zay Flowers, coming from the opposite side, ran into him.<\/p>\n<p>Ramsey laid on his back for a moment before getting up and heading to the sideline. He didn\u2019t enter the blue medical tent. Ramsey returned for the following series.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers got five player back for Sunday night\u2019s game against Baltimore. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to getting back All-Pro outside linebacker <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/t-j-watt-reveals-details-on-lung-injury-says-hes-playing-sunday-vs-ravens\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T.J. Watt<\/a>, left guard Isaac Seumalo (triceps) wide receiver Calvin Austin III (hamstring), cornerback Brandin Echols (groin) and cornerback James Pierre (calf) all played on Sunday night. Watt had a key interception and Austin scored the game-winning touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Saunders provided reporting from Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/houston-texans\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/mike-tomlin\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tomlin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers Injury Updates\u2022Steelers News Pittsburgh Steelers head caoch Mike Tomlin during a game against the Baltimore Ravens on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,253,1255,6,520,57,2360,426,2395],"class_list":{"0":"post-658969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-houston-texans","10":"tag-mike-tomlin","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers","16":"tag-steelers-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115849345641392935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658969","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=658969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}