Location: Acrisure Stadium
Last rating: Payments 9, Steelers 3
Data: Payments (1-1), Steelers (0-2)
Subsequent opponent: Payments vs Panthers on Saturday, August 24 at 1 pm ET
The Payments (1-1) received their first recreation of the preseason over the Steelers (0-2) in a defensive battle 9-3.
QB Mitchell Trubisky led the offense, passing for 86 complete yards, finishing 9 of 13 passes. RB Ray Davis led all operating backs with 58 yards on the bottom. LB Joe Andreessen led all defensive gamers with 12 complete tackles.
Inactives included QB Josh Allen, S Damar Hamlin, S Mike Edwards, S Cole Bishop, LB Terrel Bernard, EDGE Von Miller, LB Nick Morrow, DE Casey Toohill, WR Lawrence Keys III, WR Curtis Samuel, and OL Travis Clayton.
Allen was scheduled to begin, however didn’t play within the recreation as a consequence of climate situations. Trubisky began instead of Allen.
EDGE Greg Rousseau and the Payments protection stifled the Steelers offense early, forcing two straight three-and-outs and a brief five-play drive. Rousseau ended two of the three drives with a sack.
The Payments offense struggled to get something going, punting on their first three drives, none of which lasted greater than seven performs.
DaQuan Hardy gave the offense nice discipline place on their fourth drive of the sport, taking a return 31 yards. Trubisky began the sport finishing all seven of his passes, however then threw an incompletion and interception to Miles Killebrew.
Following the interception, the protection was capable of maintain the Steelers offense to a discipline aim try that Chris Boswell missed extensive left. Trubisky and the offense then started working, driving down the sphere to attain the primary factors of the sport from a Tyler Bass discipline aim.
Trubisky discovered TE Quintin Morris for 17 yards and Zach Davidson for 27 yards to convey them into the purple zone. Newly signed QB Ben DiNucci took over for Trubisky following that drive.
The Steelers and Justin Fields responded with a discipline aim of their very own proper earlier than half.