In must-win finale, Ravens are slight home favorites over Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers

The Ravens are flimsy favorites implicit the Pittsburgh Steelers up of Sunday’s regular-season finale successful Baltimore, according to Las Vegas sportsbooks.

The Ravens (8-8), who opened arsenic touchdown favorites, are present favored by 4 points successful a matchup that both teams request to win to support their faint postseason hopes alive. The crippled is besides expected to beryllium the past of Steelers backmost Ben Roethlisberger’s NFL career. Early successful pregame warmups of the team’s triumph Monday nighttime implicit the Cleveland Browns, Steelers proprietor and president Art Rooney II thanked Roethlisberger for a “great 18 years” on Heinz Field’s video board.

The Ravens, whose five-game losing streak started with a Week 13 nonaccomplishment to the Steelers successful Pittsburgh, person the worst playoff likelihood of immoderate squad inactive eligible for a berth (2%), according to FiveThirtyEight. The Steelers’ likelihood aren’t overmuch better, astatine 5%. Both teams request astatine slightest a triumph Sunday and a triumph by the Jacksonville Jaguars implicit the Indianapolis Colts.

Quarterback Lamar Jackson’s presumption for Sunday’s crippled remains uncertain. Coach John Harbaugh said Monday that there’s “a chance” that Jackson, who’s practiced conscionable erstwhile since injuring his ankle successful Week 14, can play Sunday. The Ravens are 3-1 against the dispersed successful games Jackson’s missed this season, portion Pittsburgh (8-7-1) is 3-4 against the dispersed successful roadworthy games.

The over-under for Sunday’s crippled is 42 points.