The Steelers scored their third consecutive touchdown on their next possession. On third-and-6, Rodgers found Metcalf over the middle for a 28-yard touchdowns. Metcalf caught the ball at the 14 and bulled his way into the end zone to give the Steelers a 21-3 lead with 4:58 left in the third quarter.

While the red-hot Rodgers had his streak of 12 consecutive completions snapped during the drive, he came back after the rare incompletion to hit Freiermuth on a seam route for 16 yards in one of the drive’s key plays.

A Payton Wilson third-down sack gave the Steelers the ball back and they embarked on a fourth-consecutive scoring drive early in the fourth quarter. This one was about the tight ends. Three plays after Freiermuth caught a 22-yard pass, Jonnu Smith ran 14 yards around right end for the fourth consecutive touchdown. It gave the Steelers a safe 28-3 lead with 13:01 remaining.

The Dolphins converted their initial first down since the middle of the second quarter on their first touchdown drive of the fourth quarter. Tight end Darren Waller caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa with 9:41 to play. The two-point conversion pass failed and the Steelers held a 28-9 lead.

The Dolphins added a late touchdown, this one on a 13-yard pass to Waller from Tagovailova. Once again the two-point conversion attempt failed, and with 2:32 left the Steelers held a 28-15 lead.

“It took us a while there to get going, but you got to give a lot of credit to the Dolphins,” Tomlin said. “They’ve been really stingy in the red area, only about 20% of those possessions were touchdowns. And so we didn’t expect it to be easy, but certainly, after we got it going, we had a little bit of fluidity there.”

Heyward recovered the onside kick, Ben Skowronek downed the ensuing punt at the Miami 2, and the Steelers made a final defensive stand to lock up the win.

Gainwell led the Steelers with 80 yards rushing on 13 carries. He also led with 7 receptions (for 46 yards). Metcalf led with 55 receiving yards on 3 catches. Queen was the leading tackler with 10.

The back-to-back wins are the first for the Steelers since a three-game win streak ended on Oct. 12. Tomlin was asked if his team’s “getting there” with the wins in December.

“See you next week,” he said. “Keep watching.”