Nearly eight months — 239 days, to be exact — after allowing 299 rushing yards in a Wild Card loss to the Baltimore Ravens, the Pittsburgh Steelers faced a tough test in the New York Jets Sunday at MetLife Stadium.
The Steelers promptly failed the run defense test.
Pittsburgh allowed 182 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 39 carries, struggling to stop Breece Hall and Justin Fields in the run game time and time again.
As Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen summed up well after the Steelers’ 34-32 win, the defense “played like shit.