{"id":78406,"date":"2026-01-05T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78406\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:00:35","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-odds-pittsburgh-home-underdogs-to-texans-in-wild-card-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78406\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers odds: Pittsburgh home underdogs to Texans in wild card round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Steelers are AFC North champions, and they will host the first full-capacity playoff game at Acrisure Stadium in eight years next Monday night when they host the Houston Texans. The Texans are winners of their last nine games entering the playoffs, and their defense is arguably the best in the NFL. Because of that, they are road favorites against the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>, the Texans are 3.5-point favorites over the Steelers in the wild card round. This marks the third of three games that open with 3.5-point spreads. The Philadelphia Eagles are 3.5-point favorites over the San Francisco 49ers, and the New England Patriots are favored by 3.5 over the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers are 0-1 against C.J. Stroud, that game coming back in 2023 when Houston defeated Pittsburgh 30-6. They will get DK Metcalf back next week, which will be a big boost to their offense going against a tremendous Texans defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers are 2-2 when they enter the week as home underdogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are AFC North champions, and they will host the first full-capacity playoff game at Acrisure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,33932],"class_list":["post-78406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78406","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=78406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}