Garceau: A Dozen Things To Know About Ravens Vs Steelers
Both the Steelers (4-3) and Ravens (3-4) are coming off bye weeks. That extra time off was especially valuable to Baltimore, which hopes to have most of its key players back in the lineup. Here are twelve things to know about the Ravens-Steelers rivalry:
- The Steelers lead the all-time regular season series 21-19. The Ravens have an 11-9 lead in games played in Baltimore and Pittsburgh is 3-1 in postseason games between the two.
- Terrell Suggs 14.5 regular season sacks are the most by any NFL player (past or present) against the Steelers. Former Raven Rob Burnett is third on the list with 11.
- Ben Roethlisberger is 9-8 in games started against the Ravens his 326 pass completions, 3,906 passing yards, 27 touchdown passes (18 int's) and 30 pass plays of 25-plus yards are all tops among quarterbacks against Baltimore in regular-season history.
- In his last 10 games against the Steelers Joe Flacco is 7-3 with 14 touchdown passes and 3 interceptions. In Flacco's last 6 home games against Pittsburgh he's 4-2 with 9 TD's and only 1 int.
- In 11 games (4-7) against the Ravens, Steelers star receiver Antonio Brown has only topped 100 receiving yards twice. Brown's 57 receptions are the most among active NFL wide receivers in regular-season games against the Ravens.
- Ravens head coach John Harbaugh was the TE coach for the University of Pittsburgh in 1987.
- Ravens QB Joe Flacco played for the University of Pittsburgh from 2003-04 before transferring to Delaware.
- Steelers WR Darrius Hayward-Bey played his high school football at McDonogh in Owings Mills, MD just down the road from the Ravens training facility.
- Mike Tomlin is 8-10 against the Ravens; John Harbaugh is 9-7 against the Steelers.
- The Ravens are 27-33 in their last 60 regular season games the Steelers are 35-25 in their last 60.
- Former Steelers receiver Mike Wallace is on pace to catch 80 passes for 1,180 yards in his first year in Baltimore.
- Best individual performance in this series Qadry Ismail in 1999. The Ravens wide receiver caught three third quarter Tony Banks touchdown passes (54,59,76) and totaled 258 receiving yards, the all-time record at Three Rivers Stadium it was the Ravens first win in Pittsburgh.
