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Ben’s return

How much would Cam take to come play here?
 
I'll take it with a grain of salt until the end of April rolls around and he's not throwing. You can add in another 4 months after that before it really means something.
 
Ben's already in mid-season form creating some drama and uncertainty. I'd actually take this as an encouraging sign that he's right on track to return to form.
 
he could be down playing this to get critics to say he is washed up goods, I would try putting hodges on ps and eithier cam or teddy 2 years clear back up, rudulp needs a full year to learn to read nfl defences and improve his accuracy which he should do with the scout team as well as work on mobility.
 
The emotional ride after major medical procedures is brutal. The PT can be frustrating...especially for athletes...since the body only responds so fast. It is slow and arduous and it seeds doubts in the mind. That he may have made some comments to his inner circle isn't surprising. Lets also keep in mind that he is only around week 12 from the surgery which is about the time cycle for bones to heal (I don't know if any bone work was involved).
 
They have no cap room to sign any of those top tier QBs.
 
I'm sure Mort heard it from his cousin's mothers uncle on his grandmas side twice removed. Ed Bouchette just reported at the end of last week that Ben was ahead of schedule on his recovery and would be throwing in around 8 weeks. Why people get their panties in a bunch over national media trying to make stories out of nothing just cracks me up.
 
It's going to be tough for Ben to come back from his injury at his age. My guess is it was always a 50/50 chance of him coming back and even worse odds of him returning to form. Hopefully, he will beat the odds but as I said in a couple other threads, this is probably going to be his last year assuming 2021 is a strike year. I see no way he takes another year off and is able to come back again when he has cracked 40 years old. If he doesn't come back next year, he will definitely retire.

With that said and the FA's mentioned in the article, no ******* way do I even consider Eli or Rivers. Bridgewater would definitely be an option and as some mentioned, for the right price, Cam would be an option. Cam is not my favorite but he has never had a good team around him. It was always him trying to carry the team and he just wasn't as great as everyone thought he was. But either of them would definitely be options.

If Ben does have to retire, we may be stuck with who we have as we will be stuck with a huge cap hit from Ben's signing bonus being accelerated.
 
Steeler Pride said:
I'm sure Mort heard it from his cousin's mothers uncle on his grandmas side twice removed. Ed Bouchette just reported at the end of last week that Ben was ahead of schedule on his recovery and would be throwing in around 8 weeks. Why people get their panties in a bunch over national media trying to make stories out of nothing just cracks me up.
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I think I read that article but I don't think Ed thought he was ahead of schedule. He just thought he was still on schedule to be able to make it to camp. If Ben is able to throw in the 2 months that Ed mentioned and that I had heard a week or two prior to that, I think Ben will have a good shot of being ready. But, that is assuming he has no set backs and that his arm is even capable of coming back to form.
 
It would be better to know now, than if he pulled an Andrew Luck, at least.
 
SteelerInLebanon said:
If Ben were to retire would that not change?
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Salary cap ramifications if the Steelers decide to dump Ben Roethlisberger in 2020

What would the cap implications be of getting rid of Roethlisberger?

March 13 is the deadline for decisions to be made regarding Roethlisberger’s future with the Steelers. Why March 13? Because of Big Ben’s new contract he signed this past April, he is due a roster bonus of $12.5 million on the third day of the 2020 league year. I can’t imagine the Steelers paying the bonus if they plan on releasing him. There may be pressure from the team for Roethlisberger to decide if retirement talks start bubbling to the surface again.

2020: $8,500,000 base salary, $12,500,000, prorated signing bonus, $12,500,000 roster bonus, cap hit $33,500,000.

2021: $4,000,000 base salary, $12,500,000 prorated signing bonus, $15,000,000 roster bonus, cap hit $31,500,000.

What happens if Roethlisberger retires, or is cut?

Both have the same implications, therefore they are being lumped together. That being said, again the Steelers would look to resolve this before the future HOF quarterback’s roster bonus triggers. Just like above, the cap hit for either would be $25 million due to the prorated signing bonus immediately counting.

If Big Ben retires could the Steelers go after his signing bonus and get cap relief?

If he could pass a physical, they could. Would the Steelers? Not likely. If he is not healthy, the team could not go after his signing bonus.

The Steelers could get cap relief by designating Roethlisberger as a post-June 1 cut and spread the cap hit over 2020 and 2021, right?

Wrong. Normally a team can cut a player in March and designate him to spread the cap hit over two seasons. But 2020 is not a normal season because of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) expiring after 2020. There is no post-June 1 cut designation.

https://www.behindthesteelcurtain.c...-ben-roethlisberger-in-2020-mason-rudolph-nfl
 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Clarity to calm down the masses - the <a href="https://twitter.com/steelers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Steelers</a> are now optimistic Ben Roethlisberger will recover from elbow surgery to reattach three tendons. Not cleared to throw yet but he is tracking better and Ben himself wants and expects to play in 2020 and beyond, per sources.</p>— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) <a href="https://twitter.com/mortreport/status/1209244247079165953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 23, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
Tendons take a long time to recover from. It's not months, its years.
 
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