{"id":219329,"date":"2025-10-17T04:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:02:07","slug":"bengals-33-31-steelers-17-oct-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219329\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals 33-31 Steelers (17 Oct, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

CINCINNATI — \u2014 Joe Flacco<\/a> passed for 342 yards and three touchdowns, Evan McPherson<\/a> made a 36-yard field goal with seven seconds remaining and the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> snapped a four-game losing streak with a 33-31 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Acquired from the Cleveland Browns<\/a> on Oct. 7, the 40-year-old Flacco completed 31 of 47 passes in his second Cincinnati start, and outdueled 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers<\/a> in only the third regular-season game between starting quarterbacks in their 40s.<\/p>\n

Rodgers went 22 of 32 for 244 yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions. He gave Pittsburgh (4-2) a 31-30 advantage with 2:31 remaining on a 68-yard touchdown to Pat Freiermuth<\/a>. On second-and-20, Rodgers rolled left and found Freiermuth open downfield. The fifth-year tight end caught the ball at the Bengals 36 after getting separation from safety Geno Stone<\/a> and scored his second touchdown.<\/p>\n

Flacco led the Bengals (3-4) 52 yards in eight plays, including completions of 15 and 18 yards to Ja’Marr Chase<\/a> get Cincinnati into Pittsburgh territory. The 18-year veteran then found Tee Higgins<\/a> for a 28-yard gain to the Steelers 5 with 1:39 remaining to put the Bengals well within McPherson’s range.<\/p>\n

Chase finished with 16 receptions for 161 yards and a TD, making him the fourth receiver in NFL history with two games of at least 14 catches in a single season. Higgins finished with six catches for 96 yards.<\/p>\n

Chase Brown<\/a> had 108 rushing yards on 11 carries. <\/p>\n

Freiermuth had four catches for 106 yards for the Steelers. Jaylen Warren<\/a> ran for 127 yards on 16 carries,<\/p>\n

Injuries <\/p>\n

Bengals: DE Trey Hendrickson<\/a> was inactive due to a hip injury he suffered during the first half of last week at Green Bay.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Steelers: Host Green Bay in a prime-time game Oct. 26.<\/p>\n

Bengals: Host the New York Jets<\/a> on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI — \u2014 Joe Flacco passed for 342 yards and three touchdowns, Evan McPherson made a 36-yard field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-219329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}