According to ESPN, longtime Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is expected to meet with the Steelers executives next week to discuss his future on the team.
Steelers owner Art Rooney II said in his annual state of the Steelers news conference that Roethlisberger could not return on his $41.2 million cap hit for the upcoming 2021 season, the last season on his contract.
“I think we’ve been upfront with Ben in letting him know that we couldn’t have him back under the current contract,” Rooney said last week. “I think he understands we have some work to do there. We’ll have more conversations internally and we’ll have more conversations with Ben, and we’ll have to know what the cap number is to finalize some of those decisions.”
“I want to do everything I can and made that very clear to them from the very beginning that it was my idea to basically help the team however I can this year,” Roethlisberger told The Athletic on Jan. 28.’
