The Baltimore Ravens ran up and down the field on the Pittsburgh Steelers in Saturday night’s Wild Card game. The Steelers simply had no answer for the Ravens’ read-option attack with Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry.
Midway through the third quarter, the Ravens had 242 yards rushing, which is the most rushing yards allowed by the Steelers in a postseason game. The previous high was 232 yards at Oakland in 1973.
Henry broke the record with a 44-yard touchdown run up the middle to enhance Baltimore’s lead to 28-7 at the 5:49 mark of the third quarter.
Henry also surpassed Hall of Famer Larry Csonka’s postseason rushing yards.
Henry currently has 155 yards rushing and two touchdowns. He’s averaging a whopping 9.1 yards per carry. The all-time playoff rushing record against the Steelers is 166.
Jackson has also been a handful for the Steelers, rushing for 69 yards on 12 carries (5.8 average).
Henry had a standout performance in the Ravens’ Week 16 win over the Steelers, rushing for 162 yards on 24 attempts and two touchdowns.
Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms predicted that the Ravens were going to bully the Steelers in the trenches with Henry
“I think the Ravens are gonna whoop that ass. I do,” Simms told Mike Florio on Pro Football Talk Live. “The Steelers are done. Four (losses) in a row, they got their ass whooped three weeks in a row.
“And then, okay, they put up a fight against the Bengals, who have one of the worst defenses in football, and they did make a few plays. I didn’t like the look of how Pittsburgh’s defense got absolutely (run) over by Derrick Henry.”