Steelers run past Packers in Week 10 despite being outgained in yards for ninth straight game

The Pittsburgh Steelers are successful in some way that no different NFL has accomplished in the past 90 years. Despite being outgained for a ninth straight game, the Steelers made sufficient performs to document a 23-19 win over the Packers on Sunday. 

Pittsburgh (6-3) is the one workforce to have a successful document despite being outscored in every of its first 9 video games because the NFL began maintaining a tally of dashing and receiving stats (h/t ESPN). 

The Steelers defeated the Packers despite being outgained, 388-324. They did so by means of scoring touchdowns on their first two drives, getting 3 giant box objectives by means of Chris Boswell and receiving two finish zone alternatives by means of safeties Keanu Neal and Damontae Kazee on Green Bay’s closing two possessions. 

Neal, whilst getting an help by means of Patrick Peterson’s deflection, picked off Jordan Love in the tip zone with 3:20 left and the Steelers protective a four-point lead. Kazee, beginning in position of injured starter Minkah Fitzpatrick, sealed the win when he stepped in entrance of Love’s cross at the game’s ultimate play. 

Peterson additionally got here up with a large play in the primary part when he blocked a point-after try. The block was once giant in that it compelled the Packers to have to attain a landing past due in the game as an alternative of a game-tying box objective. 

The Steelers have thrived off forcing turnovers all 12 months. The workforce’s working game, on the other hand, has additionally began to change into a part of Pittsburgh’s recipe for good fortune in fresh weeks. After dashing for 166 yards in closing week’s win over the Titans, the Steelers ran for a whopping 205 yards and two touchdowns on Sunday. Jaylen Warren led the best way whilst recording his first profession 100-yard dashing efficiency. 

Najee Harris complemented Warren’s 101 yards and a rating with 82 dashing yards of his personal that integrated a four-yard landing run at the game’s opening pressure. Pittsburgh’s fresh good fortune at the flooring may also be attributed to extra runs out of the shotgun and rookie first-round select Broderick Jones’ addition into the beginning lineup. 

Pittsburgh did not obtain gaudy numbers by means of Kenny Pickett, however the Steelers quarterback nonetheless discovered techniques to give a contribution to the motive. Trailing 19-17 past due in the 3rd quarter, his 28-yard crowning glory to George Pickens arrange Boswell’s game-winning box objective. 

The win saved the Steelers inside of placing distance of the Ravens for first position in the AFC North. It additionally larger Pittsburgh’s odds at making it again to the playoffs whilst additionally securing Mike Tomlin’s seventeenth consecutive non-losing season.