In almost every season of his career, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has dealt with serious injuries, although he hasn’t always missed time. Though he has played in all 16 regular season games three times in his 13-year career, his 2008 season was riddled with injuries, and late in the year, he rarely was able to practice during the week.
While he has been able to shorten lengthy projected recovery periods before, Roethlisberger probably knows better than anybody that he has, at times, tried to come back from injuries too soon. You can just look back at his history of games on his first time back from injury, including last season, to see how he performs in such situations.