Will Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger give it a go for another year? Will the Steelers cut him? Will he join another team if cut? All of these questions can’t be answered right now, but what we can tell you is according to a report, a meeting between Big Ben and Steelers president Art Rooney II “went well.”
The Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac reports that the meeting between the two occurred on Tuesday and that sources told him how the meeting went.
While we don’t know what, if anything was accomplished, it does tell us that the two sides are talking.
Roethlisberger’s 2021 cap hit carries a league-high $42 million and is just not manageable for the Steelers, who are still working to get cap compliant by March 17, the beginning of the new league year.
Roethlisberger previously told Steelers insider Ed Bouchette that "I don't care about my pay at all this year.”
So if he doesn’t care about pay, does that mean he would sign a veteran league minimum deal worth a couple million?
Bouchette told the Fan Morning Show on Monday that “I think in the next 7 days, that brings us to early March, I think something’s going to be done with Ben one way or the other. I’m not going to sit here and say he’s not coming back or he is because I don’t know.”
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While we don’t know if Roethlisberger is coming back for an 18th season, we will seemingly know the answer soon.