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Post-Game Notes at Rams

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Team**
• Pittsburgh improved to 2-1 in the 2015 season with its first road win of the season.

• The Steelers are now 8-15-2 against the Rams in the regular season, including 2-10-1 on the road.

• Pittsburgh is now 2-0 against St. Louis at the Edward Jones Dome.

• Pittsburgh has won each of its previous four road games vs. NFC opponents, dating back to Dec. 22, 2013 at Green Bay.

• The Steelers are 425-272-2 during the regular season since 1970.

Head Coach Mike Tomlin
• Is now 84-47 during the regular season, including 36-30 on the road.

• Remains unbeaten and improves to 3-0 all-time against St. Louis in the regular season (2-0 on the road).

• Is now 23-11 against the NFC all-time during the regular season and 10-7 on the road.

• Is now 64-10 when the Steelers hold a lead at halftime.

QB Ben Roethlisberger
• Completed 20-of-24 passes for 192 yards and an interception for a passer rating of 82.6 before leaving the game in the third quarter due to an injury.

• Improved to 108-53 as a starter during the regular season and to 47-33 on the road.

• Broke a tie with Terry Bradshaw for the most wins among Steelers quarterbacks in team history with 108.

• Is now 2-0 against St. Louis in the regular season, 2-0 on the road.

• Improved to 30-12 as a starter against NFC opponents, including 13-8 on the road.

QB Mike Vick
• Entered the game in the third quarter and finished the game completing 5-of-6 passes for 38 yards.

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Game action from the Pittsburgh Steelers' Week 3 matchup against the St. Louis Rams.

WR Antonio Brown**
• Led all receivers with game-highs of 11 catches for 108 receiving yards.

• Has registered at least one reception in 75 consecutive games in which he has played, including the postseason – dating back to October 3, 2010.

• Set a career-high for receptions in any half of a game with nine in the first half – tying a franchise record for the most catches in any half of a game (Hines Ward, 9, second half, 11/30/03 vs. Cincinnati).

• His 11 catches marked the sixth double-digit reception game of his NFL career.

• Is the 12th player (13th occasion) to record 400 yards receiving in the first three games of a season since 1960, and the first since 2011 (Wes Welker).

• Recorded the 19th 100-yard receiving game of his career, moving into sole possession for the third-most 100 yard performances in Steelers history behind only Hines Ward (29) and John Stallworth (25).

• Has totaled 436 in the first three games of the 2015 season – marking the fourth-most receiving yards by an NFL player through the first three games of a season since 1960 behind only Wes Welker, 2011 (458), Jerry Rice, 1989 (449) and Chad Johnson, 2007 (442)

• Following his 133 receiving yards in Week 1 and 195 receiving yards in Week 2, opened the 2015 regular season with three consecutive 100-yard receiving games for the first time in his NFL career.

• Is the first NFL player since 2011 (Mike Wallace) to record 100 yards receiving in each of a season's first three games.

• Has totaled at least 100 receiving yards in four consecutive regular-season games – dating back to Dec. 28, 2014 – the longest streak of his NFL career.

• Is the third Steelers player in team history to have 100 receiving yards in four consecutive games, joining Mike Wallace (6 games, 2010-11) and Jimmy Orr (4 games, 1958).

• Has recorded at least five catches and 50 receiving yards in 35 consecutive games, dating back to Week One of the 2013 season. His streak of 35 straight games with at least five receptions for 50 yards is an NFL record.

• Extended his NFL record to 21 consecutive games with at least five catches and 70 receiving yards.

• Extended his NFL record to 14 consecutive games with at least seven receptions:

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RB Le'Veon Bell**
• Has started each of his 30 career games played.

• Totaled 132 yards from scrimmage (62 rushing and 70 receiving) – the 18th game of his NFL career with more than 100 yards from scrimmage.

• Scored his first touchdown of the season on a one-yard run in the second quarter - the 20th touchdown of his NFL career (17 rushing and 3 receiving).

• Joined Jerome Bettis (4,603) as the second player in franchise history to reach 3,500 yards from scrimmage in his first three seasons with the team. Bell currently has 3,606 yards from scrimmage.

TE Heath Miller
• Extended his consecutive regular-season games started streak to 33 – the third-longest active consecutive games started streak among NFL tight ends.

• With his first catch in today's game, extended his consecutive games played with a catch streak to 107 – dating back to 11/3/2008 vs. Washington (including the postseason).

• With his first catch in today's game, extended his consecutive regular season games played with a catch streak to 100 – dating back to 11/3/2008 vs. Washington – the eighth active streak in the NFL of at least 100 consecutive regular season games played with a catch.

• Joins Hines Ward (186) as only the second player in team history to have recorded at least one catch in 100 consecutive regular season games.

FB Will Johnson
• Extended his consecutive regular-season games played streak to 34 – the third-longest active consecutive games played streak among NFL fullbacks.

DE Cameron Heyward
• Extended his consecutive regular-season games played streak to 67 – tying as the sixth-longest active consecutive games played streak among NFL defensive ends.

DE Stephon Tuitt
• Established a single-game career-high 6 tackles (5 solo), along with a sack, quarterback hurry and 2 tackles for a loss.

• Along with 1.5 sacks in last week's game vs. San Francisco, has his first career sack streak.

DT Cam Thomas
• Extended his consecutive regular-season games played streak to 67 – marking the fourth-longest active consecutive games played streak among NFL defensive tackles.

CB William Gay
• Extended his consecutive regular season games played streak to 131 – the longest active consecutive games played streak among NFL cornerbacks.

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S Will Allen**
• Picked off Rams QB Nick Foles in the fourth quarter for his seventh career interception and tied for the team-lead with 7 tackles (4 solo).

LB Lawrence Timmons
• Extended his streak of consecutive regular-season games started to 72 – the longest active streak among current Steelers – and the fifth-longest active streak among NFL linebackers.

• Extended his consecutive regular season games played streak to 91 – the fourth-longest active consecutive games played streak among NFL linebackers.

• Tied for the team-lead with 7 tackles (2 solo).

LB Arthur Moats
• Brought down Rams QB Nick Foles for a sack, increasing his career total to 10.5.

• Along with a 0.5 of a sack in last week's game, has recorded a sack in back-to-back games for the third time in his NFL career (with Buffalo: Dec. 12-19, 2010 and Dec. 24, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012) and first time as a Steeler.

K Josh Scobee

• Extended his consecutive regular-season games played streak to 122 – the second-longest active consecutive games played streak among NFL kickers.

• Converted each of his 2 field goal tries, a 21 and 41-yard attempt.

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