Ben Roethlisberger’s exterior reputation as a leader took a hard hit starting around this time last year thanks to a the slander of a number of former players, ranging in significance from Antonio Brown to Joshua Harris. The narrative just felt right at the time, so many, many people in the national sports media ran with it.
In the aftermath of everything that we’ve seen, particularly with Brown, however, many have been rewriting the narrative about the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback, particularly those who have actually been in the locker room with him.