The Lions went for it on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line and couldn’t get into the end zone. The Steelers took over on downs and made Detroit pay with a 97-yard JuJu Smith-Schuster touchdown.
Ben Roethlisberger kept missing his receivers until he threw a beautiful 97-yard TD to JuJu Smith-Schuster
The Lions couldn’t convert a fourth-and-goal and the Steelers made them pay.
Jeanna Kelley has been covering the Falcons for The Falcoholic since 2011 and the NFL for SB Nation since 2015.
Ben Roethlisberger hasn’t been terribly accurate against the Lions, but he put this pass to Smith-Schuster just where it needed to be.
Pittsburgh was deep in their own territory because the Lions turned it over on downs on the 1-yard line. The play ended up being a quarterback sneak, but Matthew Stafford took the snap in the shotgun. It didn’t work.
The play will go down in Steelers history.
With Smith-Schuster’s score, the Steelers took a 20-12 lead over the Lions.
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