Why didn’t Ben Roethlisberger play more this preseason?
That was one of the most common complaints I saw floating around following his shaky performance against the Cleveland Browns Sunday afternoon. And on the surface, it makes some sense. Less reps, more rust to shake off, makes sense, right?
Roethlisberger, appearing on his weekly radio show, was asked to weigh in on the debate and refuted the notion, saying the mistakes, aside from the first interception to Antonio Brown, had nothing to do with the number of reps he received.
“I don’t think so,” he told Ron Cook and Joe Starkey of 93.