2024 Bye Week: Steelers Friday Night Five Questions

Happy Friday, and I hope yinz are doing well.

Rest up this weekend as the Pittsburgh Steelers are riding high into their bye week. Sitting at 6-2 and guaranteed to remain in first place through Week 9, the team earned another primetime win Monday night with a 26-18 victory over the New York Giants. QB Russell Wilson had another quality showing while RB Najee Harris continues to roll with his third-straight 100-yard game.

While the defense faltered against the run, they came up with two crucial fourth quarter takeaways. T.J. Watt, despite Giants RT Jermaine Eluemunor’s belief, had a solid outing and came up clutch with a strip sack/recovery to make up for Wilson’s fumble plays before. And CB Beanie Bishop Jr. called game with the sealing interception, his third pick in the last two games.

The Steelers will be off until they travel to Washington to take on the Commanders in Week 10. After that, their AFC North gauntlet will start, first facing the Baltimore Ravens in Week 11. A team who now has WR Diontae Johnson.

As always, we’re here to bring whatever happens to throughout the weekend. Until then, we have five questions for you to answer below.

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1 – A look around the AFC North. Will the Bengals beat the Raiders? 

2 – Will the Ravens beat the Broncos? 

3 – Will the Browns beat the Chargers? 

4 – How many receptions does Diontae Johnson make in his Baltimore debut? 

5 – Does Omar Khan make any trade before Tuesday’s deadline? 

Tiebreaker: How many yards does Cleveland QB Jameis Winston throw for this weekend? 

Tiebreaker (2): How many yards does Baltimore RB Derrick Henry rush for? 

Recap of 2024 Week 8 Giants Game Weekend Friday Night Five Questions

Keep answering folks. You have to play to win!

Question 1: Steelers beat the Giants 26-18. This is the first time that every respondent scored a point on this question.

Question 2: The Steelers scored over 24 points. 66.1% of Depot respondents (41 of 62) took the over and gained a point.

Question 3: Russell Wilson almost threw three touchdown passes. Alas, only one counted. The median response of respondents had Wilson throwing two. 25.8 percent of respondents (16 of 62) predicted Wilson throwing just one.

Question 4: T.J. Watt did not sack Daniel Jones until the second half. Then, Watt sacked Jones twice. His strip sack and recovered fumble prevented the Falcons from narrowing a Steelers 26-18 fourth quarter lead. A second question that all 62 respondents said yes, here we asked if Watt would record at least 0.5 of a sack.

Question 5: Daniel Jones had one opportunity to gain some rushing yardage. But T.J. Watt tripped him up to limit Jones to one yard gained. Jaylen Warren gained 46 yards on 9 carries. 71% of respondents (44 of 62) picked Warren to outgain Jones in rushing yardage.

REMINDER: Once Beaver Falls Hosiery “likes” your response, the answers are recorded on a spreadsheet. If you want to revise an answer prior to the cutoff (usually kickoff), the best way you can ensure that we accurately record your final answers is replying to your original response and NOT editing it.

Here are the consensus answers of Steelers Depot respondents compared to the correct answers:

Steelers Depot respondents answered four of five questions correctly as a group. Impressive job!

An amazing 41 of 62 respondents missed the 5-point weekly bonus by just one question. Wow!

The tiebreaker was not needed since just one person swept the board. Greg Joseph placed all six kickoffs into the end zone for touchbacks. So, Pittsburgh had 0 kick return yards. The median response was 24 kick return yards. Twenty-two people, including this week’s winner ManRayX, predicted the Steelers having no kick return yardage.

Kudos ManRayX! Please send me a DM (subBurgher on twitter or quarternelson on Instagram or email quarter_nelson@yahoo.com) with your PayPal address to receive your winnings. Alternatively, you can kick your share back towards the next pot or donate it to the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. Or opt for a Steelers Depot polo shirt in lieu of the cash prize. Entirely up to you, just let me know.

Style Points remain in the lead. ManRayX climbed seven spots to fifth place due to his 11-point performance this week. And we have five new entries to the leaderboard. Forty-three folks have answered every single week. There is a typical drop-off on the bye-week and beyond. Keep answering folks!

Here is the 2024 leaderboard after Week 8:

*New to the leaderboard