According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, linebacker Cole Holcomb was taken to the hospital as a precaution after he went down in the first quarter of Thursday’s game against Tennessee.

Trainers immediately attended to him as he was down on the field grabbing his knee.

After the game, Tomlin said that Holcomb had a “serious knee injury.”

According to Pelissero’s report, he will require surgery which will keep him out the rest of the year.

He is expected to make a full recovery.

Holcomb joined the Steelers this offseason when he signed a three-year, $18 million contract after four years with the Commanders.

Also injured in Thursday’s game was DL Montravius Adams who left the game with an ankle injury, but the team has not said how severe the injury is.

The Steelers now have a 10-day break before they take on the Green Bay Packers next Sunday at Acrisure Stadium.

Read More: Diontae Johnson’s first TD in 655 days lifts Steelers: ‘It’s been that long?’.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson was scrolling social media as he prepared for Thursday’s matchup with the Tennessee Titans when he came across an unexpected (and somewhat unpleasant) stat: 655.

That’s how many days had passed since Johnson last scored a touchdown — a span so long that Ben Roethlisberger was the quarterback and the Steelers were in the AFC playoffs against the Chiefs when the drought began.

“I was like, really?” Johnson said. “It’s been that long?”

Well, really, it goes back even further than that. Counting only regular-season games, it had been 668 days since Johnson scored on Jan. 3, 2022 against the Cleveland Browns. Those numbers almost defy logic for a former Pro Bowl receiver and elite route runner, who set a record (if you can call it that) last season by catching 86 passes without a single touchdown.

In front of a national television audience on “Thursday Night Football,” Johnson picked an opportune time to snap the skid.

The Steelers trailed by three points with just over four minutes remaining when Johnson got free on a rub route and reeled a 3-yard score. The touchdown capped another Kenny Pickett fourth-quarter touchdown drive, as the Steelers once again surged ahead late in a low-scoring, defensive struggle to beat the Titans, 20-16.