Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger officially announces retirement after 18-year career

Yahooo ^ | 1-27-22 | Liz Roscher

[dynachrome]

Ben Roethlisberger, who has spent 18 years as quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers, officially announced his retirement on Thursday.

Roethlisberger, 39, made the announcement in a video posted on social media.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL. Isn’t English grand?

[DoodleDawg]

Quality QB who won a couple of Super Bowls. Never the guy you’d point to as the best in the league or even one of the top two or three, but the dropoff from him to Mason Rudolph and Dwayne Haskins will be steep.

Aaron Rogers is a free agent and hates the Green Bay management. Maybe the Steelers can sign him for a year or two as a transition to a QB they get in the next draft?

[dfwgator]

I think Rodgers is going to Denver.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Aaron Rogers is a free agent and hates the Green Bay management. Maybe the Steelers can sign him for a year or two as a transition to a QB they get in the next draft?

I'm hoping the 49ers will do that (with Trey Lance already drafted and waiting in the wings). Rodgers wanted to be a 49er on his draft day, should have been a 49er. Oh well.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The only question to me is 1st ballot or not. Given the off the field stuff I’d say not 1st ballot.

The NFL HOF has never seemed as prissy about off-field stuff as Cooperstown. Roethlisberger certainly deserves to go in on the first ballot.

[Tallguy]

I actually think Ben & Eli go in the same year despite Eli having retired first. That would make a story th NFL would like to see.

[Doctor Congo]

I think I remember Roethlisberger’s very first game. IIRC Pittsburgh had both the first and second string quarterbacks injured in the same game, so they put in the 3rd string quarterback, an unknown from a small Ohio school (Miami of Ohio?).

He immediately started throwing incredible passes and was a huge surprise.

[discostu]

Every once in a while. Michael Irvin got held back for a year because of off field stuff. Of course one of those incidents was months before HOF voting, so that didn’t help. Of course baseball puts a lot of extra weight on the first ballot thing too. We’ll find out in 5 years.

[discostu]

And a HOF game they’d like.

[Trinity5]

Considering he is in the top five all time for most quarterback stats and in the top ten for the balance that screams HOF, not including the three Super Bowl appearances, two wins, six pro bowls, and NFL Offensive rookie of the year sort of make it a no brainer.