Post-Gazette<\/a> the nine year veteran’s condition has improved his range of motion. In that Nov. 12 contest against Kansas City the Steeler quarterback injured his shoulder and ribs.<\/p>\nThis would not be the first time that Roethlisberger played while injured. Even at less then 100 percent he represents a substantial upgrade over Charlie Batch who led Pittsburgh to a win in Baltimore last week.<\/p>\n
While Pittsburgh will have back their quarterback they could be without one of their cornerbacks for an extended period of time. Ike Taylor will not play this weekend after suffering a hairline fracture in his lower right leg. Cortez Allen will replace him at the cornerback position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ben Roethlisberger is expected to return to action this weekend when Pittsburgh plays San Diego. Roethlisberger has been out since Nov. 12. According to the Post-Gazette the nine year veteran’s condition has improved his range of motion. In that Nov. 12 contest against Kansas City the Steeler quarterback injured his shoulder and ribs. This would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[89],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ben-roethlisberger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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