One final time for the 2025 season. Stats of the weird, Pittsburgh Steelers and Houston Texans.<\/p>\n
\u2013 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.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Pittsburgh allowed 23 fourth-quarter points, turning a 7-6 game into a blowout. It\u2019s 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\u2019s current seven-game postseason losing streak.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Pittsburgh\u2019s 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\u2019s first-ever postseason game back in 1947, Pittsburgh was shut out 21-0 by the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n
\u2013 During the team\u2019s seven-game playoff losing streak, the Steelers have been outscored by a combined 260-154.<\/p>\n
\u2013 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 \u201996 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.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Over their last three playoff games, the Steelers have allowed a combined 642 rushing yards. Pittsburgh\u2019s allowed 100-plus yards in all seven games of its current postseason losing streak.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Aaron Rodgers\u2019 final pass of the game was a pick-six. He\u2019s 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\u2026Aaron Rodgers.<\/p>\n
Rodgers is the first quarterback whose final pass of the game was a pick-six since Tom Brady in the New England Patriots\u2019 2019 Wild Card loss to the Tennessee Titans. A game in which OC Arthur Smith came out on top for Tennessee.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Rodgers joined Terry Bradshaw, Cliff Stoudt, Mike Tomczak, and Roethlisberger as Steelers to throw playoff pick-sixes.<\/p>\n
\u2013 His 146 passing yards are the fewest in his playoff career, \u201cbeating\u201d 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.<\/p>\n