It’s the elephant in the room.
And he wears #7.
Ben Roethlisberger is 34. And while it may be a fun exercise to speculate on how many years he has left, one that obviously has no concrete answer, but he doesn’t have ten years left. Maybe five. Maybe a little more. Maybe a little less.
As each offseason begins, and that talks swells slightly more, there is the debate of whether it is worthwhile of taking another mid to late round quarterback in an attempt to groom as Roethlisberger’s replacement.
Generally speaking, the success rate of mid to late round quarterbacks (4th round and on) in the league is low, as outlined before by people much smarter than me.