Roethlisberger said during his weekly appearance on 93.7 The Fan on Tuesday that he is going to take some time to evaluate whether he wants to keep playing.
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“I’m going to take this offseason to evaluate, to consider all options”, Roethlisberger said.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will consider retirement this off-season, he said Tuesday morning.
Ben Roethlisberger is now competing in the AFC Championship Game with his team the Pittsburgh Steelers and we bet his wife Ashley Harlan and their three kids are cheering him on! We wouldn’t be where we are without some of the plays that he makes. “Guys have to understand that the game can’t be too big for guys, and I think it was for some guys”, Roethlisberger said.
– There are two things Roethlisberger does better than any other QB: His ability to extend plays with his size and agility and his ability to create drama when it’s not needed. “I think that’s a fair assessment of where he is in his career”. I’m hoping Antonio Brown gets invited to both.
“[I’m] not surprised by that thought process by Ben”, Tomlin said. As Tomlin put it, “he is the most significant component in what it is we do”.
As if this wasn’t enough drama, Roethlisberger made a comment stating that “everyone in the locker room” knew about Le’Veon Bell’s groin injury heading into the game on Sunday.
The Steelers are doing what any reasonable franchise would do with a top-shelf quarterback approaching his mid-30s: Exhaust the starter until Father Time collapses the pocket, then scramble for a replacement.
Roethlisberger apparently referred to next season frequently during the interview, but he also left the door open to retirement. Harrison, who will be 39 next season, is an unrestricted free agent. Just as they’ll exist next month, through the spring and into the summer, when Roethlisberger’s body will have healed and the painful loss to the Patriots will have faded. But with them all in their mid-30’s – Manning is 36, Rivers is 35 – it may not be much longer before their long and successful run comes to an end.
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Pittsburgh could not catch up, they were simply following a trail that went nowhere. The Steelers aren’t all of a sudden doubling down on evaluating college quarterbacks for the draft or fretting over windows closing.
