Steelers vs. Lions: Get ready for 2025 Week 16 matchup

As the regular season nears its conclusion, the Pittsburgh Steelers continue to play meaningful football. They will try to maintain their place atop the AFC North when they visit the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

Kickoff is set for 4:25 p.m.

The game will be broadcast on CBS, with Jim Nantz on play-by-play alongside analyst Tony Romo and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson.

The Steelers Audio Network also will broadcast the game on 102.5-FM and 970-AM.

The Lions are favored by 6.5 points with an over/under of 51.5.

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Here’s some more news and notes to get you ready for the Week 16 matchup:

Trib headlines

• For Steelers who missed playoffs, ‘every game is its own Super Bowl from here on out’

• Steelers 4 Downs: Mike Tomlin can achieve various milestones with win in Detroit

• Scouting the Lions: Steelers opponent leads NFL in scoring

• Steelers downgrade Nick Herbig to out vs. Lions, Christian Kuntz cleared

• Call it the ‘Tush Push’ or ‘Steel City Shove,’ Steelers deployment of ‘Spartan’ is working

• Steelers notes: T.J. Watt watches practice, Pitt grad Cal Adomitis ‘ready to go if called upon’

• Isaac Seumalo, James Pierre out for Steelers vs. Lions; Zach Frazier, Derrick Harmon in

• Jack Sawyer prepping for 1st start for Steelers in wake of injuries to T.J. Watt, Nick Herbig

• ‘You could feel the tension in the room’ — Air-it-all-out meeting helps turn around Steelers defense

• Returning to hometown not as important as returning to field for Steelers’ rookie Derrick Harmon

• With T.J. Watt, Nick Herbig ailing, Steelers sign Jeremiah Moon to add to OLB room

• Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers ‘still not without pain’ in left wrist, 1 month after fractures

• ‘Upholding the standard’: Steelers LT Dylan Cook earned highest grades in starting debut

Steelers linebacker Patrick Queen tracks down Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in the first quarter Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 at Acrisure Stadium. (Chaz Palla | TribLive)

What’s their opinion?

• Football Footnotes: Many push-and-pull matchup dynamics will be at play in Steelers-Lions

• Tim Benz: On Aaron Rodgers and 2 very different kinds of ‘belief’

• Mark Madden: Is this Steelers team better than last season’s?

The Steelers’ Nick Herbig celebrates with Payton Wilson after Wilson’s sack of Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in the third quarter Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 at Acrisure Stadium. (Chaz Palla | TribLive)

In the news

• Former Steelers linebacker Myles Jack arrested on felony firearms charge in Texas

• Dry needling is common around the NFL, and players aren’t worried despite T.J. Watt’s collapsed lung

Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth avoids the Dolphins’ Ifeatu Melifonwu in the fourth quarter Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 at Acrisure Stadium. (Chaz Palla | TribLive)

In print today

If you can’t get a copy of Sunday’s Tribune-Review, check out our Steelers Gameday page.

2025 Steelers schedule

View from Detroit

• In must-win game against Steelers, Lions hoping to buck the odds again

• Did Lions’ run defense crater vs Rams? DC Kelvin Sheppard says no

• Lions tweaking defense vs Steelers: ‘Tape says it’s time’

• Detroit Lions rooting guide: What needs to happen to make playoffs?

The Steelers’ Cam Heyward and Keenanu Benton celebrate with Jalen Ramsey after Ramsey’s sack of Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in the third quarter Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 at Acrisure Stadium. (Chaz Palla | TribLive)