Watch: T.J. Watt’s pick-six seals Week 1 win

Steel City Underground highlights the Pittsburgh Steelers’ top play from their latest game. Who gets the game ball for making the biggest impact when it mattered most?

There are few things more predictable in Pittsburgh than T.J. Watt finding a way to wreck an opponent’s afternoon: Sunday was no different.

With the Steelers holding onto a narrow 13-10 lead early in the fourth quarter against the Atlanta Falcons, Watt delivered the biggest play of Pittsburgh’s 20-13 victory, intercepting Cooper Rush and returning the pass 35 yards for a touchdown.

It was Watt’s first career pick-six and the defining moment of Mike McCarthy‘s first regular-season win as Steelers head coach.

Watt changes the game in an instant

Atlanta had spent much of the second half hanging around. The Steelers offense failed to score in the third quarter, while a 51-yard Nick Folk field goal trimmed Pittsburgh’s lead to 13-10.

The Falcons then got the football back at their own 24-yard line with two seconds remaining in the third quarter. Bijan Robinson ripped off a 20-yard run on the final play of the period, putting Atlanta at its own 44 and giving the Falcons an opportunity to potentially tie or take the lead.

Robinson was stopped for no gain on the first play of the fourth quarter. Then Watt took over.

On second-and-10, Rush looked to Robinson on a short pass to the right. Watt read the play, got into the passing lane and intercepted Rush at the Atlanta 35: and he wasn’t finished.

Watt took the interception all the way to the end zone for a 35-yard touchdown, with Chris Boswell‘s extra point extending Pittsburgh’s lead from three points to 20-10.

In a matter of seconds, Atlanta went from having an opportunity to drive for the lead to suddenly trailing by two scores.