The Pittsburgh Steelers are just wrapping up OTAs, with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger returning to participation for the last couple of practices after taking a pre-planned family vacation in the middle of the three-week event.
The quarterback said that the trip was planned before the OTA schedule came out—though it’s not as though the start of OTAs isn’t predictable—but that he would have been in attendance for every practice had the team requested it.
Despite the fact that the team is breaking in a new offensive coordinator after six years with Todd Haley, Roethlisberger said that he felt no sense of urgency to get every practice rep possible during OTAs because of that.