Thursday Night Football Turns Into a Defensive Line MASH Unit for Steelers and Browns

Thursday Night Football strikes again, and this time it is taking out the big guys.

During a gritty 7-7 AFC North rock fight between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns, both teams watched a key piece of their defensive line head to the locker room.

"Adam Schefter reported that Harmon was carted to the locker room and Graham hobbled off."

According to Adam Schefter, Steelers defensive tackle Derrick Harmon was carted off with a foot injury. On the other side, Browns defensive lineman Mason Graham hobbled off the field with a knee issue.

Losing one defensive tackle in a game is bad. Watching two massive humans leave the field in the same window of a primetime divisional game is the exact kind of cursed Thursday night energy we have all come to expect from a short week.

The AFC North is basically a 60-minute car crash on a good day. Both Pittsburgh and Cleveland build their entire identities around stopping the run and making opposing quarterbacks miserable. Taking Harmon and Graham out of the trenches completely changes the math for the rest of this matchup.

If you are holding a live ticket on the under, you might want to start sweating. Missing interior run stuffers usually means running backs are about to start finding second-level daylight that simply did not exist in the first quarter.

We will not know the full damage until the MRI machines fire up on Friday morning. For now, both defenses have to figure out how to survive the rest of this slugfest without their anchors.