Sunday Black Deion Jones Jersey , 1 p.m. ET, CBSOPENING LINE — Bengals by 2 陆RECORD VS. SPREAD — Pittsburgh 2-3, Cincinnati 4-1SERIES RECORD — Steelers lead 62-35LAST MEETING — Steelers beat Bengals 23-20, Dec. 4, 2017LAST WEEK — Steelers beat Falcons 41-17; Bengals beat Dolphins 27-17AP PRO32 RANKING — Steelers No. 12, Bengals No. 5STEELERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (8), RUSH (27), PASS (4).STEELERS DEFENSE — OVERALL (29), RUSH (15t), PASS (29).BENGALS OFFENSE — OVERALL (17), RUSH (23), PASS (15).BENGALS DEFENSE — OVERALL (25), RUSH (23), PASS (21).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Steelers won last six in series, nine of 10 and 14 of 17. Bengals are 8-24 vs. Steelers under coach Marvin Lewis, including 2-15 at Paul Brown Stadium. ... Steelers overcame 17-0 deficit to win last meeting in Cincinnati. Ryan Shazier hurt spinal cord in game. Teams combined for four penalties for unnecessary roughness, one for unsportsmanlike conduct, one for taunting, one for roughing the passer, and two 15-yard penalties for grabbing facemask. Cincinnati set club record with 173 yards in penalties. ... QB Ben Roethlisberger is 24-4-1 in his native Ohio, including postseason. He's 13-2 at Paul Brown Stadium with 23 TDs, 10 INTs. ... Roethlisberger has three games with three TDs, tied for most in NFL. ... RB James Conner ran for 110 yards and two TDs, had four catches for 75 yards in win over Atlanta. He joined Jim Brown as only players with two games in first five of season that included 100 yards rushing, 50 receiving and two TDs rushing. ... LB T.J. Watt had three sacks vs. Falcons Black Grady Jarrett Jersey , is tied with brother DE J.J. Watt and Bengals DT Geno Atkins for NFL lead with six sacks. ...WR Antonio Brown coming off first 100-yard game of season. Brown averaging 10.7 yards per catch, well below career average of 13.4 yards. ... K Chris Boswell struggling after reaching Pro Bowl last season. Boswell just 3 for 6 on field goals and 14 of 17 on extra points. ... Steelers ranked 29th in defense through five weeks. Team has finished worse than 20th in yards allowed just once since 1991 (21st in 2015). ... DE Michael Johnson had 22-yard INT return for TD and DE Sam Hubbard had 19-yard fumble return for TD in win over Dolphins, first time two Bengals defensive linemen scored in same game. Bengals' defense has three returns for TDs. ... Bengals overcame 17-point deficit for eighth time in club history to beat Dolphins. ... QB Andy Dalton is 3-11 vs. Steelers with 17 TDs, 13 INTs. ... Dalton needs 171 yards passing to move ahead of Boomer Esiason for second on team career list. ... WR A.J. Green has 62 receiving TDs, one shy of Carl Pickens for second on team list. ... Fantasy tip: Conner looking for another big game against defense that has trouble covering multipurpose back. Miami's Kenyan Drake had seven catches for 69 yards, including 22-yard TD, to go along with six runs for 46 yards. Takk McKinley says nobody feels sorry for the Atlanta Falcons' injury-ravaged defense.The second-year pass rusher makes a good point. Atlanta earned a playoff berth the past two years with a mostly healthy defense, but it's a different story this season.The Falcons (1-3) are reeling now that Grady Jarrett, their best interior lineman, is the fourth defensive starter to miss Sunday's game at Pittsburgh (1-2-1)."It sucks not having Grady out there, but we can't be sad, because the Steelers won't be sad about it," McKinley said. "They won't."Jarrett's ankle injury comes with the team's best linebacker, Deion Jones, already out another six weeks and starting safeties Keanu Neal and Ricardo Allen done for the season.After allowing 80 points combined and losing their past two games in the closing seconds, the Falcons rank third-worst in scoring, fifth-worst in total yards and second-worst in third-down percentage. They're a banged-up group that can't seem to catch a break.Starting end Vic Beasley is nursing a sore ankle and has been limited in practice this week. Reserve end Derrick Shelby has been limited with a groin injury and hasn't played since the Week 2 win over Carolina.Injuries at safety has given starting jobs to Damontae Kazee, who played in 16 games as a reserve last year, and rookie Isaiah Oliver, who played exclusively at cornerback in his last two seasons at Colorado.Coaches have leaned heavily on Kazee to tone down his aggressiveness following a penalty in preseason and an ejection for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Carolina quarterback Cam Newton.And the staff is working with Oliver, who made a big mistake last week against Cincinnati. Coordinator Marquand Manuel called zone coverage, and Oliver was playing too far in front when A.J. Green dashed behind him for the winning touchdown catch."Going forward, I told the guys that you can't line up without talking to one person," Manuel said. "It's the growing pains that you have to go through, but that's a part of it. It's new guys talking to new guys, and guys that have experience Black Logan Paulsen Jersey , we need them to talk more. And the guys that don't have it, we need you to talk to guys that have it. That's where communication starts."Losing Jarrett is substantial enough that the Falcons will use a three-man rotation of Jack Crawford and Terrell McClain, a pair of longtime veterans, and Michael Bennett, who was signed this week after injuries allowed him to play in just one game last year with Jacksonville, to fill his spot.Rookie Deadrin Senat, a third-round pick, will take most of the snaps at nose tackle, where Crawford and McClain have split starts this year. Coach Dan Quinn added that third-string end Steven Means, signed last month, might have to help out on the inside, too.Trying to restore some order for his defense, Quinn has spent the past few days emphasizing better fundamentals in tackling, ball-hawking, pass rush and communication."None of those are scheme-related," Quinn said. "None of those are wholesale changes. It's a matter of us doing specifically those four things really well, and that's why I think you'll see this group get better quickly because of those four things."There was some progress last week. Missed tackles dropped from 15 the week before to "single digits," as Quinn described it, against Cincinnati. Kazee got his first career interception, and McKinley, after missing the Week 3 loss to New Orleans with a groin injury, returned to have his first three-sack game.Linebacker Duke Riley says McKinley brought some swagger back to the defense."We can't make the excuses that we don't have the guys," Riley said. "We have the right guys in the room. We've just got to own up to it and be closers."NOTES: RBs Devonta Freeman (knee) and Tevin Coleman (shin) and WR Mohamed Sanu (hip) had full participation in Thursday's practice. WR Julio Jones (hand, ankle) is expected to play despite being listed as limited. Other players listed as limited Thursday: DE Vic Beasley Jr. (ankle), DE Derrick Shelby (groin) and LB Foye Oluokun (ankle).