Steelers WR Antonio Brown poses huge challenge for Ravens

Without much to play for, the Ravens will be looking to play spoiler in this rivalry game.

“You always want to play each team at full strength”, Roethlisberger said. No Ray Lewis, Bart Scott, Haloti Ngata, Terrell Suggs. When called upon, we expect those guys to deliver plays for us. Still, it Worlids would’ve stayed with the team and they made a decision to draft Dupree anyway, this pass rush would have been ranked up there with the top units in the league. The guy who stands out as the lone black-hat villain this week is Brandon Williams. He eats up a lot of space inside, plays with a low pad level and with a nasty edge. It has the best seat in the house for the high-scoring attack that frees the defense to get after opponents as they try to play catch-up. – Steelers Radio sideline reporter Craig Wolfley.

White has scored a touchdown in four of the last five games.

HOME WOES: The Ravens once flourished on their own turf, but this season they set a franchise record for home losses in a season with five. On offense, only fullback Kyle Juszczyk started at the same position.

Key performers: NT Brandon Williams, DE Timmy Jernigan, OLB Elvis Dumervil, OLB Courtney Upshaw, ILB Daryl Smith, ILB C.J. Mosley, CB Lardarius Webb, CB Jimmy Smith.

A handful of players on the Steelers’ roster missed some time from practice this week, but many took a typical veteran day off on Wednesday. The Steelers are 0-3 this season when failing to come up with a turnover.

CH: “It’s not going to hurt me”. From time to time, I’ll make eye contact with him and check on him just to see how he’s processing it all. “I think when you do that good things happen to you as a team.” .

Q: That’s a great lesson for the youth of America. “I would say the answer to that is a resounding yes”.

“That’s all I will talk about to the team”. This Boykin stuff is still such a mystery to me. They also have Webb and Shareece Wright as their second and third corners and Kendrick Lewis at free safety. He ran for 76 yards and a touchdown against the Ravens last week. They have only one interception in their last 11 games. Dumervil is playing more snaps, even in run formations, and has only six sacks, well below his total of 17 in 2014.

Antwon Blake continues to be the most targeted cornerback in the National Football League and opposing receivers continue to post big numbers against him, but Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that Blake will continue to start ahead of Brandon Boykin.

However, Harbaugh insists things are not almost as bad inside the Ravens’ building as they may seem to people on the outside. So while the Steelers’ pass defense is being crucified locally, the Ravens don’t figure to score many points Sunday. The Steelers would clinch a berth with a win against the Ravens and a New York Jets loss to New England.

Last Sunday against the Denver Broncos the Steelers had a very hard time running the football, which forced the Pittsburgh offense to become one-dimensional. All of that speaks to the Steelers’ emotional edges. Meantime, Ben Roethlisberger is completing 66.4 percent of his passes and averaging 366 yards and two TDs the past six games. The Ravens won those games in 2004 (Roethlisberger’s pro debut), 2005, 2006 and 2011.