Aaron Rodgers v Joe Flacco didn’t disappoint within the fourth-ever matchup of 40-plus-year-old NFL quarterbacks.
Evan McPherson’s fourth area purpose, from 36 yards with seven seconds remaining, lifted the Cincinnati Bengals previous the Pittsburgh Steelers 33-31 on Thursday evening.
The Bengals (3-4) snapped a four-game shedding streak and gained for the primary time since Joe Burrow was injured on 14 September. The Steelers (4-2) fell for the primary time this season on the highway.
Flacco, 40, accomplished 31 of 47 passes for 342 yards and three touchdowns. Rodgers threw a pair of scores to tight finish Pat Freiermuth, together with a 68-yarder for the go-ahead TD with 2:21 to go to place the Steelers up 31-30. Rodgers completed with 4 landing passes, all to tight ends.
With Cincinnati star cross rusher Trey Hendrickson out with a hip harm, Rodgers, 41, related on 23 of 34 passes for 249 yards with two interceptions. Pittsburgh’s Jaylen Warren added 127 dashing yards on 16 carries.
Ja’Marr Chase had a team-record 16 catches on 23 targets for 161 yards and a landing. Operating again Chase Brown was key in Cincinnati’s first-half rally with explosive runs of 37 and 27 yards. He completed with a season-high 108 yards on 11 carries.
Rodgers drew first blood by marching the Steelers 69 yards on eight performs in simply over 4 minutes. Going through a 3rd down, Rodgers scrambled to his left after which his proper earlier than throwing a strike to tight finish Jonnu Smith ultimately zone for a 10-yard rating.
The Steelers managed a lot of the first half and have been threatening so as to add one other landing when Warren ran it in from 18 yards out. Nonetheless, Steelers lineman Zach Frazier was referred to as for holding after which Pittsburgh dedicated a false begin on fourth down. The Steelers settled for a 41-yard Chris Boswell area purpose that made it 10-0 with 10:26 left within the second quarter.
The sport then started to show for the Bengals. Flacco engineered a 10-play, 72-yard drive that ended with an eight-yard landing cross to Chase.
Jordan Battle intercepted an Rodgers’ deep ball for Metcalf on Pittsburgh’s subsequent possession. Flacco drove the Bengals 76 yards, capped off by a 29-yard strike over the center to Tee Higgins that put Cincinnati up 14-10.
Rodgers was intercepted once more with 40 seconds remaining within the half by DJ Turner II. Flacco drove the ball to the Pittsburgh 31 the place McPherson transformed a 49-yard area purpose to place Cincinnati up 17-10.
The Bengals used the primary seven minutes of the second half to drive to the Pittsburgh 5, the place they settled for a 23-yard area purpose and a 20-10 lead.
