Another victory on Monday evening. Another dose of weird. I hope you’re hungry.

– As noted several times on ESPN’s broadcast, the Pittsburgh Steelers have won 22 straight games at home on Monday Night Football. Their last such loss came in 1991 against the New York Giants. The Giants did their best, but wouldn’t be responsible for breaking that streak last night.

The Steelers did suffer a loss to the Washington Football Team in 2020, but that was a COVID-rescheduled game that started at 5 p.m. So not true “MNF” is the technical aspect there.

– Pittsburgh finished the game Monday night with 426 yards of total offense. It’s the third time under OC Arthur Smith that the Steelers have recorded at least 400 yards of offense, happening in both of QB Russell Wilson’s starts.

To put that in perspective, the Steelers didn’t have a 40-yard performance in 44 games under former OC Matt Canada.

In the fifteen games since his dismissal, they have done that five times. Two in 2023 under Mike Sullivan/Eddie Faulkner and three in 2024 under Smith.

– QB Russell Wilson had another strong performance in the 26-18 win. He was especially strong after the break. In his two starts, he is 16 of 21 (76.2 percent) for 249 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions in the second half against the New York Jets and New York Giants. That’s a QB rating of 146.7.

In the first half, he was 20 of 36 (55.6 percent) for 293 yards, one touchdown and zero interceptions. That’s a QB rating of 91.6.

– RB Najee Harris ran for 114 yards in this game, the first time he rushed for more than 100 yards three consecutive games in his NFL career. In fact, not only is it the first time he’s done it in his NFL career, but it’s something he never did at Alabama, and never had a college streak that lasted longer than two straight games.

Harris is the first Steeler to rush for 100 yards in at least three straight games since RB James Conner in Weeks 5-9 in 2018. In the Mike Tomlin era, Harris is the fourth to do so, joining Willie Parker (2007), Le’Veon Bell (2016) and Conner.

– WR Van Jefferson finished with four receptions against the Giants, the most he has had with the Steelers this year. It’s his most in a game since the 2023 season opener, when he was with the Los Angeles Rams and caught four passes for 24 yards in a win over the Seattle Seahawks.

His 62 yards are his most in a game since Week 17 of the 2022 season, when he passed for 77 yards in a loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.

– WR Calvin Austin III had the Steelers’ first punt return touchdown since Diontae Johnson in 2019.

For his career, he now has a 70-yard touchdown catch (72 yards against the Las Vegas Raiders last season) and a 70-yard punt return mark. He is now the sixth Steeler in history to have touchdown catches and punt returns of 70 yards. He joins Diontae Johnson, Roy Jefferson, Louis Lipps, Antonio Brown and Ray Mathews.

– Since 2000, Austin is only the sixth Steeler to record a punt-return touchdown. He joins Diontae Johnson, Antonio Brown, Antwaan Randle El, Santonio Holmes and Hank Poteat.

– Austin is only the third Steeler to have a receiving and punt return touchdown in a primetime game, joining Antonio Brown and Louis Lipps. Incredibly, Brown did it three times (2013 and 2014 against the Bengals and 2015 against the Colts), meaning three of his four career punt return scores came under the bright lights.

It also means that four of the team’s last five PR touchdowns have occurred in primetime. All three Brown’s were on SNF, while Austin came on MNF.

– Eight different Steelers caught passes in the win over New York.

– TE Darnell Washington was one of them, hauling in a 29-yard reception. It is the longest catch of his NFL career. It’s his longest reception since Nov. 12, 2022, when he had a 30-yard grab against Mississippi State.

– CB Joey Porter Jr. finished with eight tackles, the most he has had in an NFL game. It’s the most he’s had in any game since Penn State’s 2022 season opener, when he had eight against Purdue. He’s only had more since college, a nine-tackle performance against Illinois in 2021.

– TJ Watt is up to 103 NFL sacks. That ranks 36th on the official all-time list. He only needs 4.5 to crack the top 30, something he will likely do by the end of the season.

– Watt and Alex Highsmith each recorded two sacks in this game. It’s only the second time both had more than one sack in a game, the first coming in Week 17 of the 2022 season against the Cleveland Browns. Watt had four sacks on the day, while Highsmith had a pair.

– CB Beanie Bishop Jr. picked off another pass to seal the victory over the Giants. He is the first Steelers rookie to record three interceptions in a season since Artie Burns in 2016, the only two this century. Before them it was Weber State’s favorite Scott Shields in 1999. Before him it was Darren Perry in 1992.

– Since the merger, Bishop is one of two Steelers UDFA rookies to intercept three passes in a season. He joins Tony Dungy, who signed with the Steelers in 1977 and caught three passes as a rookie.

Bishop is only the eighth Steeler to ever do so. Among that group is Jack Butler, meaning Bishop will be joined by two Hall of Famers.

– K Chris Boswell is tied for the league lead with 23 field goals made this year. He is on pace to finish the year with 48, which would shatter the NFL record of 44 set by David Akers of the San Francisco 49ers (not Philadelphia Eagles) in 2011. Austin Seibert of the Washington Commanders also has 23 and is on the same pace.

– The Steelers have won the turnover battle in six of eight games this season. They are 1-1 in the two games they didn’t play (Chargers and Colts).

– Finally, I would like to end this meeting on a negative note. But a remarkable one nonetheless. New York Giants rookie RB Tyrone Tracy Jr. rushed for 145 yards before leaving with an injury. It’s the second-highest rushing yards by a rookie against the Steelers in franchise history, behind only Leonard Fournette’s 181 in 2017 with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who capped his day with a late 90-yard touchdown run.

Tracy overtakes rookies like Curtis Martin (120), John Henry Johnson (124 – with the 49ers before becoming a Steeler), Parker Hall (131) and Boyce Green (137).