{"id":673159,"date":"2026-01-13T04:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673159\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:42:28","slug":"texans-lead-steelers-7-6-at-halftime-in-afc-wild-card-on-monday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/673159\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans lead Steelers 7-6 at halftime in AFC Wild Card on Monday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Houston Texans are leading the Pittsburgh Steelers 7-6 at halftime in the AFC Wild Card on Monday Night Football. In no surprise to anyone that it&#8217;s been a defensive showdown after one half in Pittsburgh. Houston&#8217;s C.J Stroud found Christian Kirk for a 6-yard touchdown in the second quarter to take the 7-6 lead.For the Steelers, kicker Chris Boswell hit both of his field goal attempts with a long of 35 yards. Stroud is 12\/18 for 114 passing yards and one touchdown, while Pittsburgh&#8217;s Aaron Rodgers is 9\/15 for 79 passing yards.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Texans are leading the Pittsburgh Steelers 7-6 at halftime in the AFC Wild Card on Monday Night Football. <\/p>\n<p>In no surprise to anyone that it&#8217;s been a defensive showdown after one half in Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n<p>Houston&#8217;s C.J Stroud found Christian Kirk for a 6-yard touchdown in the second quarter to take the 7-6 lead.<\/p>\n<p>For the Steelers, kicker Chris Boswell hit both of his field goal attempts with a long of 35 yards. <\/p>\n<p>Stroud is 12\/18 for 114 passing yards and one touchdown, while Pittsburgh&#8217;s Aaron Rodgers is 9\/15 for 79 passing yards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Texans are leading the Pittsburgh Steelers 7-6 at halftime in the AFC Wild Card on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2056],"tags":[1586,115,1670,53619,1028,304,98031,32495,7,18169,61852,221,253,2368,98030,12806,16885,16166,6,520,57,40707,426,222,1287,1285],"class_list":["post-673159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-afc","tag-afc-playoffs","tag-afc-wild-card","tag-c-j-stroud","tag-christian-kirk","tag-defensive-showdown","tag-field-goal","tag-football","tag-half","tag-halftime","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-kicker-chris-bowell","tag-lead","tag-mnf","tag-monday-night-football","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-second-quarter","tag-steelers","tag-texans","tag-touchdown","tag-yard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115885961644021020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673159","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=673159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}