The irony is once upon a time we were all so taken with Ben Roethlisberger’s maturity level. Remember when he first took the field as a Pittsburgh Steelers rookie in 2004 and made everything look so easy, almost effortless? It was as if he had been there and done that, even though we knew he hadn’t. For an NFL novice, Big Ben seemed years ahead of the curve in the process of winning his first 14 starts that season, setting an almost-impossible-to-beat new standard for rookie quarterback success stories.
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