There was a mix of young and old that came together in 2004 and spurred a run of winning
LATROBE, Pa. – Ben Roethlisberger has seen such a roster mix click previously for the Steelers once before. He’s looking at it from the other end of the spectrum at present, but it’s no less familiar and no less potentially effective.

“We have a good group of young guys,” the Steelers’ quarterback assessed this week at Saint Vincent College. “We have a really good second-year class that needs to step up – Jarvis Jones, Markus Wheaton, Le’Veon Bell, those guys, and I’m excited about where they’re going because they’ve put the work in and they know they need to step up and help this team.


“Troy and I spent some time talking the other day. We just kind of reminisced about how when we came into the league the team was older than us. We had the older guys, and we were just good enough as a young group to help the older group have a real good run there of AFC Championship games and Super Bowls and kind of do some good stuff.


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