Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said Tuesday that the Le'Veon Bell situation adversely impacted the team in 2018.
After finishing the season 9-6-1 and missing the playoffs by a half-game, Big Ben appeared on KDKA-FM radio (h/t Chris Adamski of TribLive.com) and discussed what Bell's season-long holdout did to the team:
"It hurts you when you don't have one of the better players in the game, but I think the biggest thing that hurts us was that it was a distraction. At his position, we got to see James Conner and Jaylen Samuels, and I thought we got to see guys come into their own and see a glimpse of the future.