Judging biggest overreactions for NFL Week 17 games - ESPN

Week 17 is absolutely begging us to overreact to it.

The Steelers have already blown it! Derrick Henry is going to play five more seasons and break every record! The Texans' defense is going to be unbeatable in the playoffs! Tyler Shough is a franchise QB! The Commanders need to fire everybody!

A lot happened before Sunday in Week 17. There was a lot resolved, too, and a spicy Week 18 is set up with two division titles and two 1-seeds on the line. We're at that point in the season when we know whether our early-season reactions were overreactions. But the stuff we're reacting to this week, as we try to figure out which overreactions might hold up and which ones are mirages, seems highly consequential. So, let's get to it.

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Baltimore and Henry put on a show Saturday night in a 41-24 victory at Lambeau Field. Henry ran for 216 yards and four touchdowns on a career-high 36 carries. In addition to rescuing the championship dreams of thousands of fantasy football managers, he also kept the Ravens' season alive, as they prevailed in a must-win game in which they played without injured starting quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Baltimore still needed help Sunday, though, and it got it. The Browns beat the Steelers 13-6, which prevented Pittsburgh from clinching the AFC North and set up a Week 18 winner-take-all showdown between the Ravens and Steelers in Pittsburgh. The winner will be division champs. The loser will be out of the playoffs.

Derrick Henry barrels in for his fourth rushing touchdown of the game, tying a