The Colts had four turnovers in their first eight games. They had six on Sunday.
The Steelers also had five sacks of Daniel Jones, who threw three interceptions and lost two fumbles. Josh Downs also muffed a punt that the Steelers recovered. The Steelers scored 24 points off the Colts’ miscues.
Pittsburgh won 27-20 in a game that wasn’t that close.
The Steelers are 5-3 and the Colts 7-2.
Jones, who entered Sunday having thrown three interceptions this season, completed 31 of 50 passes for 342 yards and a touchdown. Jonathan Taylor managed only 45 yards on 14 carries. Michael Pittman caught nine passes for 115 yards and Alec Pierce had six for 115.
The Colts outgained the Steelers 368 to 225 but gave it away.
Indianapolis scored 10 points in the final 4:30, including a field goal with nine seconds left to make the score look better.
Aaron Rodgers was 25-of-35 for 203 yards and a touchdown. Jaylen Warren ran 31 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries. Calvin Austin caught five passes for 56 yards.
The Colts had four turnovers in their first eight games. They have four today.
The latest came on Jack Sawyer’s pick of a Daniel Jones pass intended for Michael Pittman. He returned it 4 yards to the Pittsburgh 44, and the Steelers offense took it 56 yards to the end zone.
Jaylin Warren scored his second touchdown of the day on a 2-yard run.
The Steelers lead 24-7.
Jones has thrown two interceptions and lost a fumble. Josh Downs muffed a punt. The Steelers scored three touchdowns on Jones’ three miscues, but turned it over on downs in the red zone on Downs’ turnover.
The Steelers have four sacks of Jones.
The Colts began Sunday’s game by marching 79 yards in 13 plays, with Daniel Jones’ 1-yard touchdown run giving them a 7-0 lead on the Steelers. Indianapolis has looked nothing like the first eight games since.
Their final three drives of the first half ended with a fumble, an interception and a three-and-out. The Colts also lost a fumble on a muffed punt. It was not pretty.
The Steelers converted the three turnovers into 14 points, and they lead 17-7 at halftime.
The Colts have outgained the Steelers 138 to 128, but Pittsburgh’s scoring drives have covered 56, 14 and 75 yards. They failed to score on Josh Downs’ muffed punt that Brandin Echols recovered at the Indianapolis 11. Aaron Rodgers’ fourth-down pass was incomplete.
Rodgers is 14-of-22 for 108 yards and a touchdown, a 12-yard toss to Pat Freiermuth. Calvin Austin has three catches for 34 yards.
Jones is 11-of-20 for 114 yards and an interception, with Alec Pierce catching three passes for 64 yards. Jonathan Taylor has only 23 yards on eight carries.
The Colts had only four turnovers in their first eight games. They have three today.
The Steelers have converted them into 14 points and lead by seven with 4:22 left in the half.
Jaylen Warren scored his first rushing touchdown of the season on a 1-yard run on third-and-goal with 6:09 left in the half. The Steelers had to go only 56 yards, and did it in 12 plays.
T.J. Watt had a strip-sack of Daniel Jones at the Pittsburgh 44, and the Steelers edge rusher recovered the fumble.
The Colts turned it over again only two snaps into their next drive when linebacker Payton Wilson picked Jones at the Indianapolis 31 and returned it 17 yards. It took the Steelers only two plays to go 14 yards for the lead.
Pat Freiermuth caught a 12-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers.
The Steelers did not take advantage of Josh Downs’ muffed punt that Brandin Echols recovered at the Indianapolis 11. Rodgers’ fourth-down pass was incomplete.
Linebacker Alex Highsmith left the field gimpy after the second play, with Nick Herbig replacing him. The Steelers did not give an injury update on Highsmith, but he has returned with his ankle taped.
The team announced that cornerback Darius Slay has a hand injury and listed him as questionable to return, but he, too, was back in for the Colts’ second series.
Slay was injured five plays after Highsmith on a tackle of Josh Downs.
The Colts took a 7-0 lead on their first drive, driving 79 yards in 13 plays, with Daniel Jones running it in from the 1.
Jones went 5-of-9 for 73 yards on the first possession, with Alec Pierce catching three for 64.
The Colts gave the Steelers life when Downs muffed a punt that Brandin Echols recovered at the Indianapolis 11. The Steelers, though, couldn’t get in with Aaron Rodgers’ fourth-down pass falling incomplete.
