Bell’s last-gasp touchdown lifts Steelers over Chargers

The Chargers suffered an excruciating loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night, losing on Le’Veon Bell’s 1-yard run as time expired after blowing three leads.

On first-and-goal at the San Diego one-yard line with five seconds remaining, Bell took a direct snap and ran to the left side.

The 2-2 Pittsburgh Steelers travel to San Diego, California to take on the 2-2 Chargers tonight and both teams need a win to stay in second place of their respective division.

Tonight’s Pittsburgh Steelers vs San Diego Chargers Monday Night Football game on ESPN sports live TV and Watch ESPN 3 live streaming will formally close out Week 5 of the 2015 NFL season.

Gates, in his return from a four-game PED suspension, caught his 100th and 101st career touchdown passes, a 12-yarder from Rivers on the first series in the game and the aforementioned 11-yarder that opened a 17-10 fourth-quarter lead.

After three rather sluggish quarters, the Chargers and Steelers delivered a frantic, back-and-forth final quarter that came down to one play.

The Steelers lost to the Baltimore Ravens in overtime, 23-20 in a Thursday night game on October 1, Vick’s only start so far for Pittsburgh, whose kicker Josh Scobee missed on two field goals, costing Vick and his team a victory.

Last-second wins are exciting, but throughout games which go down to the wire a few players can be left out in terms of recognition.

“It was time to go to the mattresses, if you will”, coach Mike Tomlin said. Gates proved that he is up to the challenge, and must play at a high level for the Chargers. But initial observations, before we get into more extensive work breaking down the game, were certainly positive, and he played as he should have against that level of competition.

The Steelers risked running the play without having time to call a timeout but it worked out for Pittsburgh.

The Chargers have been able to record an average of 411 total yards per game until now, compared to the Steelers’ 359.8 yards on average per game. “He’s fired up to be back”, Rivers said. Rivers has thrown 72 touchdown passes to Gates, the most from a QB to a tight end in National Football League history.

The constantly under-pressure quarterback finished the game with 365 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. “I’m usually hoarse after road games and I’m going to be today as well”. He had one touchdown run, in 22 carries, over 129 yards. Gordon caught a career high seven passes for 52 yards while Woodhead had five receptions for 66 yards. After that, the Chargers managed to score a field goal and Vick led a clutch drive for a walk-off touchdown.