The NFL gives the Steelers the short end of the stick for the second year in a row during a crucial part of their 2025 schedule

Steelers are facing hardest schedule in NFL to close out regular season 

For the second straight year the Steelers close the season with the absolute TOUGHEST schedule... by a mile it's not close they'll play 1 team in 10 weeks expected to finish with 8 or fewer wins so much more difficult than #31, #30, etc... SAME AS 2024. 

- Warren Sharp, via X-Twitter

If you remember back to the end of the 2024 regular season and playoffs, the Steelers went from 10-3, atop the AFC North, and within striking distance of the number one overall seed in the conference, to finishing the regular season on a four game losing streak before getting bounced, well more like demolished in the Wilcard round against the Baltimore Ravens. 

While the George Pickens injury and Russell Wilson's regression played a key role in their downside, the fact that the team played the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals to close out the regular season didn't help either, especially when those first three games were in 10 days and all of their division games occurred after the bye week. 

This year's schedule is not nearly as demanding, but when you close out the season facing only one team that's projected to have a losing record in the last 10 weeks...that's not much easier. 

Of course, it's only May. A lot can and frankly will change between now and October-November. Teams projected to be good will be bad and vice versa. But what the NFL has told you, no, has shown you for two years in a row, is that the Steelers will have to save their best for the end. 

Add in the fact that the team has the earliest bye week possible, and our earlier prediction of a double-digit winning season for the Steelers will be no easy feat, and that's with our without Aaron Rodgers.