Cam Heyward describes stopping Week 14 Ravens' Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry in five words
Cam Heyward describes stopping Week 14 Ravens' Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry in five words
The 2025 Steelers measuring stick game is clear — Week 14 in Baltimore against the Ravens, and Pittsburgh's veteran DT Cameron Heyward knows it all too well.
On his podcast, Not Just Football with Cam Heyward, the Steelers DT summed up the Week 14 meeting between the Steel City and Ravens in five powerful words:
"Got to stop the run."
Truer words have never been spoken. Baltimore exposed the Steelers' run defense in Week 16 of 2024 — as RB Derrick Henry ran for 162 yards on just 24 carries — the most regular season rushing yards Pittsburgh has ever given up to a Ravens player. Just a few short weeks later, Henry destroyed Pittsburgh once more, this time in the Wild-Card round of the playoffs — accumulating 186 rushing yards and two TDs on just 26 carries.
And that was just Henry, as the two-time MVP Ravens QB Lamar Jackson also ran for over 80 rushing yards in the Wild-Card beat down over the Steelers.
It was a major point of emphasis to revamp the run defense this offseason — and that's exactly what the Steelers did in the 2025 NFL Draft — but no one will know for sure until Pittsburgh faces off against Baltimore in Week 14 of the 2025 season.
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