Browns Host 2-1 Steelers in Week 4 Thursday Night Football on Prime

Cleveland and Pittsburgh, both 2-1 in an AFC North where all four teams share that record, meet on Thursday Night Football, streaming on Prime.

The NFL's fourth week opens Thursday night in Cleveland, where the Browns host the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC North divisional game on Thursday Night Football. The broadcast streams on Prime. Both teams enter at 2-1, and the matchup also marks the arrival of October on the league calendar.

Every club in the AFC North carries a 2-1 record into Week 4, leaving Pittsburgh in first place on a narrow margin and Cleveland in third. A Browns win would lift the home side past its visitor in the standings. Whichever team wins ends the night with no worse than a share of the division's best record; the loser drops to 2-2 and concedes early ground.

Aaron Rodgers starts at quarterback for the Steelers against Deshaun Watson of the Browns. Rodgers has said he will retire at the end of the 2026 NFL season, a plan that frames each of his appearances this year. Under that plan, Thursday would be his final Thursday Night Football game.

Both rosters have been reshaped since the franchises last met. Cleveland traded away defensive end Myles Garrett, and Pittsburgh traded cornerback Joey Porter Jr. on the day of the game. As a result, the Browns and Steelers look considerably different from the versions that shared a field last December.

That December meeting took place on Dec. 28, 2025, at Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, in the closing stretch of the 2025 season. Rodgers, wearing No. 8 for Pittsburgh, fumbled during the third quarter on a play defended by Browns safety Grant Delpit. The rivalry now resumes in Cleveland with the division lead in play early in October.

Buffalo Bills supporters have no direct rooting interest in the outcome. Buffalo does not play again until Sunday, and the Bills' regular-season schedule includes neither the Browns nor the Steelers. By recent history, Pittsburgh has been the more frequent playoff contender of the two, though that distinction holds no weight for Buffalo this season.

Uniform watchers will note a quirk of the pairing: the Steelers and Browns combine for exactly one logo across the sides of their helmets. Pittsburgh's helmet bears its mark on a single side, while Cleveland's carries none. Brownie, the elf figure tied to the Browns, has never been used by the team as a helmet logo.

The Week 4 matchup streams on Prime under the Thursday Night Football banner, with the rest of the week's games scheduled through Sunday. For the AFC North, the night offers the first separation in a race that three weeks of play left perfectly even. The league's full Sunday slate closes the week.