Steelers RB Najee Harris Says Saturday’s Game vs. Ravens Could Mark His Pittsburgh Farewell

Najee Harris enters his 71st game with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday in a wild-card game with the Baltimore Ravens. The former first-round back knows it could be his final wearing the black and gold.

“Compartmentalizing (those feelings) is not hard,” Harris said Thursday, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “But (I am) realizing the situation, what it is. You realize what it is. And (come) the offseason, whenever it is, whatever happens after this season … all you can do is see what happens next.”

In four seasons with the Steelers, Harris hasn’t missed a contest, playing in all 68 regular season tilts, and two playoff games. He’s the only running back in the NFL with 1,000-plus rush yards in each of the last four seasons.

With the Steelers declining his fifth-year option, the running back is headed toward free agency in 2025, but he’s not getting sentimental heading to Baltimore for a postseason tilt.

“Soak it in? Shoot, man, this is a business,” Harris said. “This is a production business, obviously. All you can do is … I’ve been put in situations where I’ve got to make the best of my opportunities. Whatever that is, it is, and if you can say you’ve done the best you can, that’s all you can do.

“Would you want to change stuff? Yeah. Would you want to have done better at some things? Yeah. But sometimes people are put in certain situations, and you have to make the best of it. That’s the reality of it.”