Postseason scenarios can be complicated. For the Pittsburgh Steelers, Week 17 couldn’t have been any simpler. Beat the Cleveland Browns, and the AFC North crown was theirs. No calculators. No scoreboard watching. Just win. For a team that has sputtered its way through stretches of the season, Sunday felt less like an opportunity and more like a lifeline — a rare 'get out of jail free' card in a league that offers very few.
And standing in the way was a rookie quarterback making one of the biggest starts of his young career: Cleveland Browns signal-caller Shedeur Sanders.