Baltimore and Pittsburgh will square off for a playoff spot in the final contest of the NFL’s 2025 regular season.
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey intercepts a pass during an NFL game against the Green Bay Packers on Dec. 27, 2025, at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.regular season will fill the final spot in the AFC playoffs.
The winner of the Baltimore Ravens-Pittsburgh Steelers game on Sunday night will become the No. 4 seed and host a first-round game when the NFL postseason begins next weekend. The loser’s season will be over.. “I joke around that the NFL script writers, they did good with this one. I think with this rivalry, with the craziness that just happened, of how it all went down, and with playing nine years here, this is just honestly, like, a dream. Like, a dream scenario to play your rival in their stadium. Teams that don’t like each other too much. The two head coaches have been there for a while. Aaron Rodgers, a great quarterback; Lamar Jackson, a great quarterback. It’s great. “You know you’re going to get their best. It’ll probably get a little chippy. So it’ll be fun. I think it’s great for the fans. It’s great for the organizations, and I just hope – actually, I have confidence – that our team will come out and we’ll be able to play Ravens football."fifth team during the 56 seasons of the NFL’s AFC/NFC era to reach the playoffs after winning only one of its first six games in a seasonof the Ravens’ prospects of reaching the postseason for the fourth year in a row. “Obviously, it was just an odd year, for sure. Just the games, man, it was just a year. But you kind of do get a chance at basically the playoffs, starting Sunday. It literally is if you win, you’re in, and if you lose, you’re out. So that’s kind of the goal. I think everyone’s on one accord towards that. “And the vibes, the energy after that Green Bay game – not even knowing if we were going to even have a chance – to me, that was encouraging. I think the guys came out with the energy we played with in that must-win game, not knowing. It said a lot to me about the leadership of the team, the leadership of the coaches, and, hopefully, that energy, that same demeanor, that will to win throughout the week will lead into a victory on Sunday." Baltimore beat the Packers 41-24 in the Week 17 Saturday night game to stay alive in the AFC North race. Pittsburgh could have secured the division title by beating the Cleveland Browns the next day. But the Browns pulled out a 13-6 upset to set up Sunday night’s showdown. When the Steelers defeated the Ravens 27-22 on Dec. 7, Pittsburgh quarterback Aaron Rodgers posted a season-high 284 yards as he completed 23-of-34 passes with one touchdown and no interceptions. At 42 years old, the four-time NFL MVP could be in his final season. With 850 receiving yards, DK Metcalf has almost twice as many as any other Pittsburgh player in 2025. But the wide receiver won’t play against Baltimore. Instead, he’ll serve the second game of a two-game NFL suspension for his interaction with a fan during the Steelers’ 29-24 victory over the Detroit Lions on Dec. 21.of Rodgers. “He hadn’t really been that spot on, but he threw some great passes. He really etched himself into the rivalry well. We just have to kind of match that tempo. “He’s going to come out there, and he’s going to give his guys great opportunities to get the ball, going to put it in places where it’s very hard to defend. So it doesn’t matter who you’re guarding or who’s out there, you have to be on your P’s and Q’s. He’s a great player, but we would definitely love to have his last memory be a negative one. So that’s kind of how we’ll be going, and we’re trying to just play our best game against him.”Derrick Henry’s ‘spiritual journey’ in the 2025 NFL season reaches a win-and-in game The Ravens and Steelers square off at 7:20 p.m. CST Sunday at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. NBC will televise the game.If the Ravens win to split the season series and tie Pittsburgh at the top of the AFC North standings, Baltimore holds the second-tiebreaker advantage because it has a 3-1 record against the division’s other teams – the Browns and Cincinnati Bengals – while the Steelers went 2-2 in those games.The 2025 season is the 12th that Mark Inabinett has covered players with Alabama football roots in the NFL. Inabinett's byline appeared in a newspaper for the first time in 1976. The intervening years have...
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