PITTSBURGH — Two home wins.

That’s what it will take for the Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs for the first time since 2011 and win the AFC North division championship.

A victory this Sunday over the visiting Kansas City Chiefs would put the Steelers into the playoffs. Add to that a win over the Cincinnati Bengals the following week at Heinz Field and the Steelers are division champions.

The Steelers (9-5) have all the tiebreakers for both the wild card if they beat the Chiefs and go, at worse, 10-6. They also hold the tiebreaker over Baltimore if the two tie atop the AFC North.

Pittsburgh clinched its first winning record since 2011 as well after dual 8-8 marks the past two seasons. The Steelers have won two in a row, six of the past eight and three in a row on the road to finish 5-3 away from Heinz Field. Now they can clinch a playoff berth and then their first division title since 2010 at home.

After a 3-3 start to the season, it reminds some of the few left from 2005 of their run to the Super Bowl that year when they won their final four to squeeze into the playoffs.

“The first Super Bowl that we won (in the 21st century), we were a team that got hot at the right time,” said quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. “We went in as a six-seed and just played good football and that is what this league is all about.

“If you get hot and play your best football at the right time, then you are a dangerous football team. I don’t know if we are there yet, but we got a win and are happy about it.”

Their offense is as good as they come in the NFL, but there remains skepticism that they can play the kind of defense to make a long run into the playoffs.

In Sunday’s 27-20 win over the Atlanta Falcons, wide receiver Antonio Brown continued his assault on the Steelers record books. He broke Hines Ward’s record of 112 pass receptions in 2002 by catching 10 passes in Atlanta to give him 115. He also has 1,498 yards receiving, one short of the team record he set last season with 1,499 yards. Brown tied Mike Wallace and John Stallworth with his seventh 100-yard receiving game, the most in one season in Pittsburgh history.

Meanwhile, Roethlisberger broke his own team record for passing yards with 4,415. He set a team record in 2009 with 4,328 yards. He has the best four seasons in team history for yards passing.

REPORT CARD VS. FALCONS

–PASSING OFFENSE: B – Ben Roethlisberger completed 27of 36 passes for 360 yards, no interceptions, one sack and a 109.2 passer rating. But he had no touchdown passes for only the second time this season and he was playing against one of the worst NFL’s pass defenses.

–RUSHING OFFENSE: C-minus – Le’Veon Bell managed just 47 yards on 20 carries as the Falcons ganged up to stop him and the Steelers running game, which was basically him. Roethlisberger ran twice for two yards. But Bell did have two touchdown runs of 13 and 1 yard and he was quite active again catching the ball (some of which act as runs) with 72 yards on five receptions.

— PASS DEFENSE: C – Matt Ryan threw for 310 yards and two touchdowns, one interception and was not sacked. His passer rating was 102.3. But perhaps the winning points in the game were provided by cornerback William Gay, who intercepted a Ryan pass in the second quarter and returned it 52 yards for a touchdown, his team-record third pick-six of the season. That salvaged an otherwise poor day on pass defense.

–RUSH DEFENSE: B-minus – The Falcons do not have a good running game but they did average 4.9 yards per carry even if they ran only 20 times for 97 yards. Steven Jackson had 46 of those on 11 tries. Ryan scrambled three times for 27 yards. They did not have a rushing touchdown

–SPECIAL TEAMS: B — Shaun Suisham connected on both of his field goal tries from 38 yards. Markus Wheaton had one nice kickoff return of 32 yards and Antonio Brown returned a punt 32 yards. Devin Hester returned a kickoff 43 yards but he was otherwise held in check and had two fair catches on punts to go with a 7-yard return.

–COACHING: B — Mike Tomlin’s team ran out to a 13-0 lead, something they thought was important as they headed into a road game against another opponent with a poor record, something that has given them fits this season. There were no apparent tactical moves one way or the other of note, but after their big win in Cincinnati the previous week, the Steelers appeared not to have their normal letdown against a 5-8 team and prevailed, which is all they wanted to do.