When the Pittsburgh Steelers selected quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft, the team’s newsiest quarterback Dwyane Haskins was just six years old and close to turning seven. With the two quarterbacks now teammates in Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger heaped a lot of praise on his new understudy following Tuesday’s OTA practice.
“I was just telling Coach Sully [Mike Sullivan] the other day that his release and throwing motion mechanics are some of the prettiest I have ever seen,” Roethlisberger said of Haskins. “I told him I wish I had that. I joked that he could throw it through a car wash, and it wouldn’t get wet.