While it’s impossible to truly gauge who the Pittsburgh Steelers will be in 2020 without seeing Ben Roethlisberger back on the field, it cannot be ignored that this team, which should look much the same as it did a year ago, did go 8-6 without him, with two of what many outlets have regarded as the worst quarterback performance in the NFL last season from Mason Rudolph and Devlin Hodges, both of whom were benched.
The theory goes, if you can add an elite quarterback to a defense that played at a championship level, re-inserting him into an offense that has quality skill position players and a quality offensive line that suffered from well-below-the-line play under center, then this has the makings of a very good team.