The Dolphins opened the quarter with a long drive that resulted in a goal line touchdown run by Daniel Thomas. The Steelers answered back on the next drive, with a couple of explosive plays, the second being a 43 yard touchdown by Antonio Brown making it 17-14.

The Steelers defense came up huge on the next drive when Troy Polamalu intercepted Ryan Tannehill and returned for a 19 yard touchdown taking the lead. The Dolphins answered back shortly after they drove down the field and gained a touchdown. Steelers have the ball to close the 3rd.

After what was a very ugly quarter of football, the Steelers went into the lockeroom at half time down by 3. The Dolphins capitalized on a Ben Roethlisberger fumble, that eventually led to a short touchdown pass from Tannehill to Clay. Dolphins start the 3rd quarter with the ball.

In what has been a snowy, messy first quarter, the Steelers are on top 7-3. The Steelers chewed up the clock with successful running by Le’Veon Bell, who’s playing well coming back from his concussion. He had 36 rushing yards on 9 carries and 14 yards on 2 receptions.

The Steelers scored on a short pass to Emmanuel Sanders. Ben Roethlisberger surpassed Terry Bradshaw on that play, giving him 213 regular season touchdown passes, the most in Steelers history. Ziggy Hood left the game with an ankle injury on the following drive. His return is questionable.

Here are the inactives for today’s game at Heinz Field.

For the Steelers:

LT Kelvin Beachum, DE Brett Keisel, WR Derek Moye, QB Landry Jones, C David Snow, CB Isaiah Green, and LB Kion Wilson are inactive today.

RB Le’Veon Bell and NT Steve McLendon are active and slated to start today. Matt Spaeth is in fact active today, but it’s uncertain how much playing time he’ll see. Mike Adams will start in place of Kelvin Beachum.

For the Dolphins:

QB Devlin, CB Taylor, CB Davis, S Campbell, OL Watkins, OL Arkin and DL Francis are inactive.

According to media outlets this morning, the NFL plans to penalize the Steelers further by taking a late round draft pick from the team. Originally it was believed by many that the league was leaving the case open, in case of playoff tie-breaking implications from Tomlin’s sideline step. However, Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports and Mike Florio of ProfootballTalk (via Peter King) report that tie-breakers are not a factor, and that the league plans to take a late round pick from the team regardless.

Personally, I have a problem with breaking NFL news that’s reported on Sunday morning. In my opinion, these types of reports are generally published in an effort to funnel web traffic to their website in hopes to keep the reader there for all the Sunday football festivities. These stories almost always have the phrase ‘according to a source’ in the first two sentences.

As much as this has made headlines, I would be surprised if the league does in fact take away a draft pick from the Steelers for this. We’ll most likely be at the mercy of rumors and speculation for the next few months unfortunately.