On a recent Footbahlin podcast, Ben Roethlisberger told a story of the night the Steelers traded for DK Metcalf.
Ben was watching TV with his family when he saw the alert on his phone. He began teasing his boys, asking them to guess for whom the team had just acquired.
When Ben told them, eldest son Benjamin erupted with joy and “fell on the couch going nuts.”
“If I was still the quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers, I would’ve done the same thing,” Ben admitted.
Roethlisberger, of course, has seen Metcalf play. In fact, Metcalf scored his first NFL touchdown, in Week 2 of the 2019 season, the same game in which Ben heard a pop in his elbow, had to leave the game, and missed the rest of the…
