Ben Roethlisberger saw enough people come and go throughout his time with the Pittsburgh Steelers to know a thing or two about what makes a young quarterback successful. His set of circumstances as a former first-round pick were vastly different than that of sixth-round rookie QB Will Howard’s, but Roethlisberger still offered some sage advice.
“He needs to understand, and I would tell him this, you don’t have pressure, bud. You are a sixth rounder. There’s no pressure,” Roethlisberger said via his Footbahlin podcast on YouTube. “He should go into this thing with like, [the mentality of] I can play free.