Roethlisberger averaged 26.5 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists as a 6-foot-5 senior point guard in basketball. 11 in the 2004 draft and the rest is history.ĭon’t forget about his prowess in other prep sports. Roethlisberger went on to break 10 program records and threw for 10,829 yards, including a Mid-American Conference record 4,486 his junior season, just before he declared for the NFL Draft. “I didn’t want to be the genius to offer this guy who never played quarterback a scholarship.”īut Roethlisberger threw for six touchdowns in that game, and the coach gave a reassured response: “That’s good enough for me.” “We waited until he played a game,” Hoeppner told. Miami (Ohio) coach Terry Hoeppner invited Roethlisberger to a summer camp at the school but did not offer him a scholarship. He played in the Big 33 Classic and Ohio North-South all-star games before college attention began to come his way. PITTSBURGH - After attributing a lack of playoff success to a rise in 'me-first' players, former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger walked back his comments in an interview with a. Roethlisberger earned Ohio’s Division I Offensive Player of the Year and was runner-up for Mr. He threw eight touchdown passes in one game. “In Ben’s case, you knew Ben was going to be special.”įindlay finished 10-2 and reached the second round of the state playoffs. “You still have kids that are 5-7 and weigh 145 pounds that will give you every ounce of energy and everything that you could possibly desire.
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“In high school, you don’t know who’s going to be a pro yet,” Cliff Hite, Roethlisberger’s coach at Findlay, told. Roethlisberger threw for 4,041 yards and 54 touchdowns - both state records - and he also ran for seven scores.
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He was a wide receiver until he made the full position switch in the fall of 1999.
Some forget Roethlisberger, a three-sport athlete, only played quarterback as a senior at Findlay High School. 7 dodged Terrell Suggs, extended play after play or won two Super Bowls, he was a terrific high school player in Ohio - at least for one season. Ben Roethlisberger walked off into the sunset Thursday, announcing his retirement from pro football after 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers.īut long before No.
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