Sitting at 5-7 on the season and riding a current two-game winning streak as well as going 3-1 since the Week 9 bye week, the Pittsburgh Steelers are entering a pivotal stretch of football in December.
The Steelers will find themselves in matchups against the Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers and Las Vegas Raiders — on Christmas Eve for Franco Harris’ jersey retirement — in the month of December, with two of the three matchups at home inside Acrisure Stadium.
For second-year tight end Pat Freiermuth and the Steelers inside the locker room of the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, they are well aware of the stakes of December football this season as they continue to try and dig out of an early-season hole they created before the bye.