PITTSBURGH – Najee Harris back to the bench after Pat Freiermuthovertime of groping and focusing for Steelsmith‘drive next attack. The only problem: There will be no other ownership of Pittsburgh.
NS Detroit Lion (0-8-1) attempted to eliminate a series of sides in a last-ditch attempt to break a 16-16 tie in the final seconds on Sunday, but D’Andre Swift was pushed out of bounds to end the game in NFL’s First Draw as of Week 3 of the 2020 season.
However, the rookie running back didn’t realize that it was all over until a teammate told him.
“I didn’t even know you could draw in the NFL,” Harris said. “In my mind, I’m sitting on the bench and saying, ‘I have one more round to go.’ But someone came up to me and said, ‘That’s it.’ I’ve never been bound in my life before.”
Harris isn’t the only one not expecting an abrupt, unsatisfying ending.
“It’s crazy,” sophomore Lions ran back Godwin Igwebuike speak. “I go back there like, ‘Yo, how many times can we do this?” And they were like, “Three”… I heard, “Two, one,” and we were like, “Yo, whatever’s going on, we’re putting our all into it.”
With the draw, the Lions avoided a 0-17 season, but they are still on a 13-game winless streak since last season.
Lions coach Dan Campbell said: “I’m in this twilight zone. “I really don’t know what this is, and I’m sure I’ve drawn before as a player, but for some reason I can’t remember that, if at all.”
“Ties suck,” defensive captain Steelers Cam Heyward to add. “I know it’s a draw, but if it’s not a win, I don’t think you can really take your hat off to that.”
The final 10 minute period was a humorous foul by both teams.
The Lions won by tossing a coin and choosing to receive, just one tap down to win it. Instead, the Steelers (5-3-1) got the ball back after four innings, sealed by a nine-yard bag from Heyward. Then on the next ownership, midfielder Mason Rudolph – start instead of Ben Roethlisberger – complete a 19-yard pass to Diontae Johnson in the second play, but Johnson beat it and the Lions recovered.
“I was just trying to make a play,” Johnson said. “It’s like what everyone else would do in that situation: Get the ball like that, you try to make a play for your teammates, put them in a good position. I didn’t see the guy behind me. “
It appears the midfielder of the Lions Jared Goff get the ball right back to the Steelers the next inning with an interception by Minkah Fitzpatrick, but a call to defend against Devin Bush negate it. Instead, possession ended with a 48-yard goal missed by Ryan Santoso, increase one day earlier when kicker Austin Seibert landed on the wounded reserve.
A moment high from the center Kendrick Green to Rudolph in the second play of the sequel series destroyed that hit, but the Lions also did nothing with their subsequent possession.
The Steelers got the ball back with 1 minute and 37 seconds left and made it past midfield. First down from Detroit’s 39, Rudolph hits Freiermuth for 1 yard, but it’s safe Will Harris forced a groping and paved road Trey flower Corrosion loose balls.
According to research by ESPN Stats & Information, to Freiermuth’s fumbling, the Steelers became the first team to lose multiple times in extra time since at least 2000. The Steelers are also the 16th team to make more rotations. in extra time since 1978.
The Lions were unable to do anything in the final match, to equalize.
“An NFL draw always feels like a loss when you get into the locker room because you don’t add one to the victory column,” Steelers lineman Joe Schobert speak. “It’s half the game. It can make the difference in the end.
Eric Woodyard of ESPN contributed to this report.
