FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Calvin Austin III has been down this road before. Aaron Rodgers, too. In three different decades.

Game in the balance. Corner of the end zone. The Steelers needing someone to step up and make a play.

“You get in moments like this, you just go back to your training and back to fundamentals,” Austin would say. “That’s all that was — basic fundamentals.”

More precisely, that was a 17-yard touchdown from Rodgers to Austin with 2:16 to go in the fourth quarter, the back-shoulder fade producing the Steelers’ final points in a 21-14 victory over the Patriots on Sunday at Gillette Stadium.

That was hardly all the touchdown represented, however.

Small-picture, it saved the Steelers’ collective backside against New England.

Prior to Rodgers finding Austin, Pittsburgh had ga

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