PITTSBURGH -- That the Steelers are talking about extending Ben Roethlisberger one year after the quarterback entertained retirement is a major victory for a team whose master plan appears to be at work.
Try to sign Le'Veon Bell in the short term, the plan goes, then start reworking the final two years of Roethlisberger's current contract with something bigger, either this offseason or next.
Team president Art Rooney II rolled out both of those possibilities in a conference-table interview with a small group of reporters Wednesday, and these parts might just be mutually exclusive.