Aaron Rodgers vs Joe Burrow in primetime: What to know about Bengals-Steelers NFL Week 7

The Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers are scheduled to meet on Amazon Prime Video's Thursday Night Football in NFL Week 7, October 16, 2025 at Paycor Stadium.With the Steelers' announcement late Thursday night that they've signed quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a one-year contract, it appears Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow could face Rodgers for the second time in their NFL careers.Rodgers is 2-2 against the Bengals in 20 NFL seasons, with all four of those games taking place while he quarterbacked the Green Bay Packers.The 41-year-old, who passed for 3,897 yards with 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 17 games last season for the New York Jets, enters the 2025 season with 503 career passing TDs, five shy of former Green Bay teammate Brett Favre for fourth all-time.Rodgers' only Super Bowl win came for the Packers against the Steelers, in February 2011.What to know about Rodgers and the Steelers against the Bengals:The first Rodgers-Burrow matchup ended in heartbreak for the Bengals.When Rodgers brought the Packers to Cincinnati in October of the 2021 season that concluded with a Bengals' Super Bowl appearance, both teams entered the game 3-1.The Bengals scored on a Joe Mixon touchdown run with 3:27 left in the 4th quarter, and tied the game on a 2-point conversion from Burrow to Tee Higgins.But a 49-yard field goal by Mason Crosby in overtime gave the Packers a 25-22 win.Rodgers was 27-of-38 for 344 passing yards with two touchdowns and an interception.Burrow, referred to by ex-teammate Mike Daniels before that season as "baby Aaron Rodgers," finished 26-of-38 for 281 passing yards with two TDs and two INTs.Rodgers and the Packers also beat the Bengals in overtime in 2017.When Andy Dalton and the Bengals visited Lambeau Field in September 2017, they took a 21-7 lead into halftime.But the Packers rallied to outscore Cincinnati 17-3 in the second half, and beat the Bengals on a Crosby field goal at the end of OT.Rodgers passed for 313 yards with three TDs.Rodgers lost his first two meetings with the Bengals.Dalton and the Bengals stunned Rodgers and the Packers with 13 unanswered, fourth-quarter points to win 34-30 in Cincinnati in September 2013.

The Bengals' game-winning TD came on a Terence Newman 58-yard fumble return.Carson Palmer, Chad Johnson and Cedric Benson helped the Bengals to a 31-24 win at Lambeau Field against Rodgers and the Packers in 2009.This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Aaron Rodgers vs Joe Burrow on Thursday night: Bengals-Steelers Week 7.

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