Brandon McManus’s 57-yard field goal fell short for the Packers to open a big second quarter for the Steelers. They took over at their 47 after the miss and Kenneth Gainwell ran 9 and 8 yards to set up Boswell’s 50-yard field goal that cut the Packers’ lead to 7-6 with 12:18 left in the half.<\/p>\n
Boswell’s third long field goal of the half — a 48-yarder — gave the Steelers a 9-7 lead at 5:52 before halftime. Ke’Shawn Williams’ 16-yard punt return set up the scoring drive. Key plays included a 12-yard Rodgers pass to Ben Skowronek, a defensive hold on third-and-8, and a 9-yard run by Jaylen Warren.<\/p>\n
A second consecutive three-and-out by the Steelers’ defense set up their first touchdown, a 2-yard Rodgers pass to Metcalf. The key plays of the scoring drive were a punishing 17-yard run by Warren around left end, a 14-yard run by Gainwell around right end, and a 21-yard defensive pass interference call on third-and-8 that gave the Steelers a first down at the Green Bay 15. A rollout pass for 10 yards to Metcalf set up the short touchdown throw on a slant pattern by Metcalf.<\/p>\n
Following a missed 44-yard field goal by the Packers, the Steelers led at halftime, 16-7.<\/p>\n
The Packers got back in the game in the second half. The Packers drove 90 yards in 9 plays for a touchdown, a 9-yard Love pass to Savion Williams. The key play of the drive was a 59-yard catch-and-run by tight end Kraft on a third-and-5 call. The touchdown cut the Steelers’ lead to 16-14 with 8:48 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
“We were good at 16-7,” Rodgers said. “We had a nice drive there in the first half, and then just didn’t decide the game. But the one play where, I don’t know, it seemed like the guy was offsides on third-and-8 and we didn’t come up with a catch. They didn’t make the penalty call, and then we punted, and they had a wild play to (Kraft) getting back in the game. That was a big moment.”<\/p>\n
The Steelers answered with Boswell’s second 56-yard field goal of the game. The key plays of the drive were a 24-yard pass to Metcalf on a slant and an 11-yard pass to Warren out of the backfield as the Steelers led by 19-14 with 5:34 left in the third.<\/p>\n
Packers regained the lead with a touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter. A 33-yard catch by Christian Watson on a third-and-7 pop-up heave by Love put the ball at the Pittsburgh 7. Two plays later, Josh Jacobs ran for a 3-yard touchdown and the conversion pass to a wide open Romeo Doubs gave the Packers a 22-19 lead with 14:55 left to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon McManus’s 57-yard field goal fell short for the Packers to open a big second quarter for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[564,8650,563,73,75,74,565,6029],"class_list":{"0":"post-16285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-green-bay-packers-at-pittsburgh-steelers-2025-reg-8","10":"tag-non-sponsored","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","13":"tag-pittsburgh-news","14":"tag-sights-and-sounds","15":"tag-xtra-points"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}