I hope you’re sitting down for this one, but it turns out, Colin Cowherd is not a big fan of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The radio show host laid into the 17-year veteran yesterday following general manager Kevin Colbert’s comments pertaining to his contract status.
Although Roethlisberger has a salary cap value of nearly $42 million, he is only actually owed $19 million this season, which is the total amount of money that could actually be moved, and the only way you can move all of that is by outright releasing him, or having him retire.
While Colbert’s remarks sounded on the surface to be skeptical about Roethlisberger’s future with the team, the reality is almost surely that the two sides will work out an agreeable renegotiation of his contract that will give them some cap relief and keep him under center—under a new center, of course, for one more year.