“Can’t say enough about Calvin,” said Coach Mike Tomlin after the game. “I thought that’s a big play, that punt return. It was a catalyst for us.
“I talked to Calvin on third down before he took the field. He’d just been close for a couple of weeks. I thought it was his time. He thought it was his time. He delivered.”
Austin said after the game that when Tomlin told him it was his time, he knew he wanted to do something.
“I went 17 games last year and didn’t take a punt back,” said Austin, who won the award for the first time in his career. “That’s not myself and the standard I hold myself to. So, getting in there was almost like a sigh of relief.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed in last year and the beginning of this year, because that’s something I am supposed to do. So, I am very blessed and thank God I was able to get into the end zone. But that’s something that, for me, should happen more often.”
Watt had seven tackles, two sacks, including a strip-sack that he recovered near the end of the game. And that couldn’t have come at a better time.
With the Steelers leading, 26-18, quarterback Russell Wilson fumbled with 4:30 remaining in the game, and the Giants recovered at the Steelers 37-yard line. Five plays later, Watt was blocked one-on-one by Giants tackle Jermaine Eluemunor and got to Giants quarterback Daniel Jones for the strip-sack and recovery. Earlier in the week Eluemunor had said he wanted to be on ‘an island’ with Watt.
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