{"id":67406,"date":"2025-12-22T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67406\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:02:18","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-vs-detroit-lions-sunday-december-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67406\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Detroit Lions, Sunday, December 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QB comparison: Goff finished the game completing 34 of his 54 pass attempts for 364 yards with three touchdowns, no interceptions and a 101.2 passer rating. He was sacked three times.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh&#8217;s Aaron Rodgers was 27-for-41 passing for 266 yards with a touchdown, no interceptions and a 92.1 rating. He was sacked twice (<a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/team\/players-roster\/aidan-hutchinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aidan Hutchinson<\/a>, 2).<\/p>\n<p>Impact moment: Trailing 15-10 early in the fourth quarter, Detroit needed a big stop on defense after their offense went three and out inside their own 10-yard line, giving Pittsburgh great field position at the Steelers&#8217; 39-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>Steelers running back Jaylen Warren sliced through the Lions&#8217; defense on the fourth play of the series for a 45-yard touchdown, giving Pittsburgh a 22-10 lead the Lions could never overcome.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat: The Steelers out-gained the Lions 230 yards to 15 on the ground while winning the time of possession 34:06 to 25:54.<\/p>\n<p>Injury report: Defensive back Avonte Maddox left the game late in the fourth quarter with an undisclosed injury and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Up next: at Minnesota (7-8), Thurs., Dec. 25, 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QB comparison: Goff finished the game completing 34 of his 54 pass attempts for 364 yards with three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21830,22205,21279,20748,22384,21410,15641,35638,20747,73,75,74,34622],"class_list":{"0":"post-67406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-aidan-hutchinson","9":"tag-amon-ra-st-brown","10":"tag-avonte-maddox","11":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","12":"tag-isaac-teslaa","13":"tag-jahmyr-gibbs","14":"tag-jared-goff","15":"tag-kalif-raymond","16":"tag-news-twentyman","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","19":"tag-pittsburgh-news","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-at-detroit-lions-2025-reg-16"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67406","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=67406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}