Overview
- Both teams released official inactives before kickoff, finalizing availability for the AFC North matchup in Pittsburgh.
- Browns inactives: DT Mike Hall Jr., OT Cornelius Lucas, OG Zak Zinter, RB Raheim Sanders, OT Thayer Munford Jr., and CB Jarrick Bernard-Converse.
- Steelers inactives: WR Calvin Austin III, S Chuck Clark, G Andrus Peat, DL Logan Lee, and DE DeMarvin Leal.
- Rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders is active for the first time as Cleveland dresses only two quarterbacks.
- Hall is the lone Browns injury inactive and will miss a fifth straight game after limited practices, and CB Jalen Ramsey was reported likely to play and was not listed among Pittsburgh's inactives.