But the Steelers couldn’t turn the fumble recovery into points. Corliss Waitman punted and pinned the Texans back at their 8-yard line, from where they embarked on a 92-yard drive that culminated in Stroud’s 6-yard touchdown pass to Christian Kirk. With 8:28 left in the first half, the Texans held a 7-3 lead.<\/p>\n
Stroud turned the ball over again in Texans territory, this time on a strip sack by nose tackle Keeanu Benton. T.J. Watt recovered the fumble and Boswell kicked a 35-yard field goal with 1:57 left and the Texans went into halftime locker room holding a 7-6 lead.<\/p>\n
The Texans opened the second half with gains of 16, 14, 14, and 9 and reached the Pittsburgh 14 for a third-and-4 play. Stroud, under pressure, threw a pass to Xavier Hutchinson that was intercepted by a diving Brandin Echols at the Pittsburgh 4. The play saved the Steelers at least three points as they took their first possession of the second half.<\/p>\n
The Steelers pushed off their own goal line with a 21-yard reception by Adam Thielen, but couldn’t advance further. Waitman’s 57-yard punt did flip the field, as the 7-6 game moved into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
While Joey Porter Jr. was shutting down Nico Collins (3 catches, 21 yards), who left late in the third quarter with a concussion, the Steelers had no answer for Christian Kirk (8 catches, 144 yards). His 46-yard reception on third-and-15 put him over the 100-yard mark and gave the Texans a first down at the Pittsburgh 36. But the Steelers held the Texans to a 51-yard field goal by Ka’imi Fairbairn, and with 13:07 to play the Texans led by 10-6.<\/p>\n
The Texans made it 17-6 less than two minutes later when Rodgers was sacked by Will Anderson and fumbled. The ball was recovered by Texans defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins and returned 33 yards for a touchdown with 11:16 left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the Steelers couldn’t turn the fumble recovery into points. Corliss Waitman punted and pinned the Texans back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[564,40273,563,73,75,74,565,6029],"class_list":["post-85258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-featured","tag-houston-texans-at-pittsburgh-steelers-2025-post-1","tag-non-sponsored","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sights-and-sounds","tag-xtra-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85258","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=85258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}