One final time for the 2025 season. Stats of the weird, Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans.

– In each of their last two games against the Texans, the Steelers have lost by the same 30-6 score. That was the outcome in 2023 and the outcome Monday night.

– Pittsburgh allowed 23 fourth-quarter points, turning a 7-6 game into a blowout. It’s the most fourth-quarter points the Steelers have ever allowed in playoff history, eclipsing the previous high of 17 given up to the Jacksonville Jaguars in their 2017 Divisional Round loss. Both games make up the team’s current seven-game postseason losing streak.

– Pittsburgh’s six points are the fourth fewest in a playoff game in franchise history. In 1992 and 1996 postseason losses to the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots, the Steelers scored just three points. And in the team’s first-ever postseason game back in 1947, Pittsburgh was shut out 21-0 by the Philadelphia Eagles.

– During the team’s seven-game playoff losing streak, the Steelers have been outscored by a combined 260-154.

– Houston is the first team to turn the ball over three-plus times, lose the turnover battle, and still win by 24-plus points since 1996. That ’96 team was the Steelers in a 42-14 win over the Indianapolis Colts. A game that featured Jim Harbaugh, whose Chargers were eliminated 24 hours before the Steelers were sent packing.

– Over their last three playoff games, the Steelers have allowed a combined 642 rushing yards. Pittsburgh’s allowed 100-plus yards in all seven games of its current postseason losing streak.

– Aaron Rodgers’ final pass of the game was a pick-six. He’s the first Steelers quarterback to throw a pick-six in the postseason since Ben Roethlisberger was pick-sixed by Green Bay Packers DB Nick Collins in Super Bowl XLV. On that side, a game started and won by…Aaron Rodgers.

Rodgers is the first quarterback whose final pass of the game was a pick-six since Tom Brady in the New England Patriots’ 2019 Wild Card loss to the Tennessee Titans. A game in which OC Arthur Smith came out on top for Tennessee.

– Rodgers joined Terry Bradshaw, Cliff Stoudt, Mike Tomczak, and Roethlisberger as Steelers to throw playoff pick-sixes.

– His 146 passing yards are the fewest in his playoff career, “beating” a mark of 177 yards in a 2013 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. His 50.8 QB rating is the worst of his postseason career.

– Regardless of turnover differential, the Steelers had been 17-1 when they had three takeaways in the postseason. Now, they are 17-2. The only other loss came to the Tennessee Titans in the 2002 Divisional Round, an overtime 34-31 loss. Pittsburgh won the turnover battle 4-1 but lost on a Joe Nedney kick – a moment that came with plenty of controversy. 

– Pittsburgh finished the game 2-of-14 on third down. It’s the worst third down showing in Steelers’ postseason history, surpassing a 2-of-13 showing in the 2015 Wild Card game, a win over the Cincinnati Bengals.

– On the other end, Houston’s 10 third down conversions are tied for third most Pittsburgh’s allowed in the playoffs. It matches what the Baltimore Ravens did in last year’s Wild Card game (10-of-15) and only behind the 11 from the New England Patriots in the 2016 Championship Game and the 12 from the Tennessee Titans in the above Divisional Round.

– Texans WR Christian Kirk had just 239 receiving yards in all of 2025. He had 144 yards in Monday night, a career high. It was his most in any game since the 2017 Belk Bowl while a member of Texas A&M, losing to Wake Forest in a 55-52 shootout.

– Tight end Jonnu Smith finished with negative yards, two catches for minus-1 yard. He’s the first non-Steelers RB to finish negative in a playoff game in team history. Five backs in Najee Harris, Le’Veon Bell, Willie Parker (twice), Jerome Bettis, and Jon Witman join him.

– Texans QB C.J. Stroud was charged with a whopping five fumbles. He’s just the 14th player in recorded history, regular season or playoffs, to do so. The first since Matthew Stafford had five in 2013. The only player besides Stroud to do so in the playoffs is Hall of Famer Warren Moon and his five in a 1993 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

– T.J. Watt has one sack in five career postseason games. He’s yet to win in the playoffs.

– Over its final three games, Pittsburgh went 2-of-11 in the red zone. Pitiful.

– Finally, Houston outgained Pittsburgh 408-175. That 233-yard difference is the worst gap in Steelers’ playoff history, breaking the previous mark of 221 yards in the 2021 Wild Card loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Pittsburgh was outgained 478-257 that day, Ben Roethlisberger’s final NFL game.

Pittsburgh’s 175 yards are second fewest in playoff history. That total only beats out the 154 mustered in that aforementioned 21-0 loss to the Eagles in 1947, the franchise’s first-ever playoff game.