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Ben Roethlisberger Talks About Working On Flexibility This Offseason To Retain Pocket Mobility

When you’re as big as Ben Roethlisberger is—he didn’t get his nickname just because of his first name—and you can naturally throw the ball as well as he is, you may develop a tendency to rely upon your natural abilities, by and large. If your mechanics are naturally sound, it may even have an averse effect on your performance to tinker with them.

So the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback has never been known to be one to toil away in the offseason on his fundamentals, working with private coaches and things of that nature. He often talks about how he doesn’t even throw the ball much in the offseason, which might be a good thing if he throws it nearly 700 times in regular-season play.