As Pittsburgh Steelers fans in the late stages of the career of franchise quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, we have come to take it as something of a given that the 37-year-old gets his veteran’s days off. He typically does not practice at all on Wednesdays during the regular season, and as Jeremy Fowler points out, that is a rarity even among quarterbacks older than him, such as Tom Brady, Philip Rivers, Eli Manning, and the like.
Those who have come to the team by way of other organizations may have been taken by surprise over the fact that their franchise quarterback is only actually on the practice field running plays with them for a portion of the practice week.