Player Spotlight: Ben Roethlisberger (1 Viewer)

[BigRed]

His three seasons stat review:04 - 14 gms 196 comp 295 attempts (66.4%) 2621 (8.9 ypa) 17 TDs 11 ints 144 yds and 1 TD #21 QB05 - 13 gms 168 comp 268 attempts (62.7%) 2385 (8.9 ypa) 17 TDs 9 ints 69 yds and 3 TDs #19 QB06 - 15 gms 280 comp 469 attempts (59.7%) 3513 (7.5 ypa) 18 TDs 23 ints 98 yds and 2 TDs #10 QBEven with the injury and accident, I see yearly totals that are not that bad.

You need glasses.

 

[EBF]

Career highs in completions, attempts, yards, passing TDs, and rushing TDs...

Is that crazy to expect given the move from a pound-the-rock coach to one that's expressed a desire to throw more?And it's not like we're talking about career highs for someone that's been playing for 10 years here. We're talking about beating the previous totals of a 1st and 2nd year QB in a heavily run-first offense and a 3rd year QB who was going through all kinds of injury and near-death issues and improved heavily as he moved away from those.Quite frankly, I would be much, much, much more surprised if Roethlisberger DIDN'T put up career highs in most of those categories this year.

 

[-OZ-]

I have to honest in saying that I was enthralled with Big Ben as a fantasy player when he came out as a rookie. Since then, I have come to the realization that as long as Roethlisberger is in Pittsburgh, he will be nothing more than a fantasy backup and situational starter. In three seasons, he has thrown a single TD or less 60% of the time. In a third of his starts, he has thrown more INT's than TD's. Not exactly the numbers you like to see in your QB1.

Despite the turnover in coaching, Steeler football has always been about running the football.

2007 Stats Projection:

GS 14

Att 350

Comp 210

Yds 2835

TD 18

INT 18

Ru Att 35

Ru Yd 100

Ru TD 2