{"id":762990,"date":"2026-04-30T05:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T05:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T05:19:14","slug":"ben-roethlisberger-not-impressed-with-steelers-qb-draft-pick-drew-allar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762990\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Roethlisberger not impressed with Steelers QB draft pick Drew Allar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cue the Shania Twain because Ben Ben Roethlisberger was not impressed much by his old team\u2019s quarterback choice in the 2026 NFL Draft. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh selected Drew Allar<\/a> in the third round as the fourth signal caller taken in this year\u2019s draft, and days later, Roethlisberger spoke on his \u201cFootbahlin\u201d podcast<\/a> this week about the decision, one which he didn\u2019t exactly give a ringing endorsement to, saying the \u201cjury is out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one that I\u2019m not sure yet if I love it or hate it,\u201d Roethlisberger\u00a0said. \u201cI don\u2019t watch a lot of Penn State games. When I did watch, he never jumped off the page to me. Is he big? Can he move? Can he throw? Yes. But there was never a time where I was like, \u2018Whoa.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PennNittany Lions quarterback Drew Allar passes during Penn State\u2019s upset road loss to Northwestern on Oct. 11, 2025. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con<\/p>\n

The two-time Super Bowl champion Steelers quarterback thinks someone already in the Steelers\u2019 locker room stood out more as a college player than Allar. <\/p>\n

\u201cWill Howard jumped off the tape to me way more than Drew [Allar] did,\u201d Roethlisberger said.<\/p>\n

Allar, during his sophomore year, led the Big Ten with 25 touchdowns before adding 24 more in 2024, a season in which Penn State reached the College Football Playoff semifinal, though he struggled in that game and threw a late-game, backbreaking interception<\/a> that helped seal a Nittany Lions loss.<\/p>\n

But 2025, a year with high expectations, crumbled six games in when Allar<\/a> suffered a broken ankle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In all, over four seasons \u2014 three as the starter \u2014 Allar finished with 7,402 passing yards on a 63.2 completion rate with 61 touchdowns against 13 interceptions. He added 732 yards and 12 scores on the ground.<\/p>\n

Steelers quarterbacks coach Tom Arth told reporters Friday<\/a> that there\u2019s a lot to like about Allar\u2019s size and ability.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has rare size,\u201d Arth said. \u201cHe\u2019s 6-foot-5, 235 pounds. He has big hands. And I think what\u2019s most exciting, certainly when you\u2019re talking about the quarterback position, this guy can throw the football. And I think he throws it as well as any quarterback in this draft class.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"PennPenn State quarterback Drew Allar runs a drill during the school\u2019s NFL football pro day on March 18, 2026, in State College, Pa. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an effortless arm. He can make every single throw on the field. And he\u2019s a better athlete than I think given credit for. \u2026 His intelligence as a football player and his arm talent and all those things. I think he has a very high ceiling. I don\u2019tthink he has reached his potential yet as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh had Howard and Mason Rudolph already in the quarterback room as it awaits a decision on whether Aaron Rodgers will return. Roethlisberger expects if Rodgers does come back, Rudolph will be the odd-man out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cue the Shania Twain because Ben Ben Roethlisberger was not impressed much by his old team\u2019s quarterback choice…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":762991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[43],"tags":[87049,1318,1317,1315,1316,1232,4261,237483,1381,1545,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-762990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-nfl-draft-2026","tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116491975456541519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}