Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin released a statement regarding Roethlisberger’s Knee injury:
“Ben Roethlisberger had an MRI on his right elbow Sunday day and it had been decided by the Steelers’ medical team that surgery is going to be required. We expect the surgery will be scheduled for this week. He is going to be placed on our own Reserve/Injured List also will be out for the season.”
Roethlisberger, who has never missed more than four games at a time over 15 seasons, also suffered the injury in the first half of Sunday’s 28-26 home loss against the Seahawks. He completed 8 of 15 passes for 75 yards before leaving the match.
Big Ben hasn’t missed a start due to injury since Week 7 of their 2016 season and now because the Steelers traded Josh Dobbs into the Jaguars last week, they will likely sign Devlin Hodges off their practice squad to back new starting quarterback Mason Rudolph.
Rudolph stepped for Roethlisberger against the Seahawks and he also had a decent match, completing 12 of 19 passes for 112 yards and two touchdowns with one interception in his first attempt of the day, that was also the first of his profession.
They relied upon Roethlisberger to make up for the absence of experience and depth at wide receiver and the Pittsburgh offense isn’t as stacked as it was in recent times because of this Antonio Brown commerce and return again.
22-year-old Juju-Smith Schuster is only in his third year at the group, his first since the No. 1 wide receiver along with James Conner is only in his second season as the team’s starting running back. The Steelers will be 0-2 to start the year, exactly like the Bengals as of this writing, the Browns are winless, which renders the surging 2-0 Ravens since the team to beat in the AFC North.
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