Ben Roethlisberger has been careful not to be too complimentary of rookie tight end Pat Freiermuth. But it’s clear that since Day One, Roethlisberger planned to do everything in his power to make 2021 a successful one for him. Freiermuth sat down in a 1v1 interview with Steelers.com’s Missi Matthews. Freiermuth said his locker sits next to Roethlisberger’s. And that wasn’t an accident.
“They were kind of like, ‘your locker is over here,'” he told Matthews posted on the team’s website. “And we’re walking over. And he was like, ‘oh, this was requested by [Roethlisberger]. And I was like, ‘oh wow.