Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season has supplied on the spot traditional after on the spot traditional, and the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ (9-6) 29-24 street win on the Detroit Lions (8-7) had the wildest ending of all of them on Sunday night.
The week started with the Seattle Seahawks erasing a 30-14 fourth-quarter deficit to win 38-37 in additional time on their third profitable two-point conversion of the Thursday night time traditional, however what occurred at Ford Discipline in Detroit Sunday afternoon takes the cake for the craziest ultimate play.
Dealing with a fourth-and-goal from the 9 with eight seconds left on the clock, Lions quarterback Jared Goff dropped again to cross, and he related with prime goal Amon-Ra St. Brown close to the objective line, however St. Brown was clearly going to be tackled in need of the top zone. That is when the All-Professional extensive receiver frantically whipped the soccer backward with the hopes a teammate would get well the soccer and run in for the game-winning landing. Humorous sufficient, Goff did simply that regardless of the Steelers protection showing to cease taking part in as a result of it appeared like St. Brown was held up lengthy sufficient for the play to be blown lifeless due to ahead progress.
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Nevertheless, Goff’s scoop and rating off St. Brown’s lateral was wiped away as a result of St. Brown pushed off of Steelers All-Professional cornerback Jalen Ramsey to make the preliminary catch at first of the play.
Head referee Carl Cheffers defined that as a result of the penalty was on the offense that Goff’s landing was nullified. By NFL guidelines, an offensive penalty when time has expired doesn’t set off a replay of the earlier play, so the Steelers walked away with an important, late-season victory.
The Lions’ playoff hopes are actually slim to none because of their last-second loss. Detroit wants the Inexperienced Bay Packers, the present proprietor of the NFC’s seventh and ultimate playoff spot, to lose their final two video games in opposition to the Baltimore Ravens (7-8) and the Minnesota Vikings (7-8), and the Lions additionally must win their final two video games on the Vikings and on the NFC North-leading Chicago Bears (11-4).
