Ben Roethlisberger focused on ‘right now,’ not possible final season with Pittsburgh Steelers

“I’m living right here, right now,” Roethlisberger said Wednesday, asked if he thinks about how his own career will end.

“You look at guys sometimes and look in their eyes and see what they have,” Roethlisberger said.

Just because you’re losing a football game or the season isn’t going the way you want it to, doesn’t mean these guys don’t have heart and don’t love it and aren’t passionate for it.

In his 18-season career, Roethlisberger has been sacked an NFL record 546 times.

Roethlisberger is chasing another record he’ll likely capture Sunday.

Anytime you get up there with a legend — I’ll call him that, my draft class — he’s still a good football player and a legend football player.

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