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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is grossly underpaid. And he isn’t making a stink about it.Last year JK Scott Jersey , both Roethlisberger and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers had two years left on increasingly below-market deals, with Roethlisberger at $21.85 million per year and Rodgers at $22 million per year. But while Rodgers clamored for a new deal (and got one, worth $33.5 million annually in new money), Roethlisberger remained patient.This year, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson Rashan Gary Green Bay Packers Jersey , at $21.9 million per year, has set an April 15 deadline for a long-term deal to replace the last year of his current contract. Roethlisberger, entering the last year of his own deal, has said or done nothing to apply pressure, directly or indirectly Rashan Gary Jersey 2019 , to the Steelers.This isn’t about knocking Rodgers or Wilson for trying to get better deals; every player with leverage should. But it’s noteworthy that Roethlisberger, who routinely receives criticism for being a bad teammate and leader, hasn’t done something that even a good teammate and leader would be justified in doing: Trying to get more for himself and his family.Roethlisbeger may indeed get more, but he’s not driving the kind of bargain that Rodgers was a year ago and Wilson is now, even if Roethlisberger could. Although he’s a far cry from Tom Brady‘s bargain-basement contracts Color Rush Rashan Gary Jersey , if Ben were as selfish as he’s portrayed it would be very easy for him to make comments about his substandard deal, and to instigate via his agent the kind of agitation that would force the Steelers to eventually choose between a franchise-tag fiasco or a trip to the open market.With a cap number of $23.2 million this year, Roethlisberger could put the Steelers in position to pay $27.84 million in 2020, $33.4 million in 2021, and $48.1 million in 2022. But the possibility of a year-to-year cap mess or a departure from Pittsburgh has never even landed on the radar screen of possible outcomes. Which conflicts sharply with the manner in which many choose to regard Roethlisberger. Packers head coach Mike McCarthy’s decision to punt on fourth-and-two while down three points with 4:20 left to play in Thursday night’s loss to the Seahawks began being second-guessed even before the Seahawks were able to run out the clock.It wasn’t just people watching the game from afar who felt they would have handled the situation differently. Veteran Packers cornerback Tramon Williams said after the game that he thought the best thing to do was leave the team’s fate in the hands of Aaron Rodgers rather than Russell Wilson.“I want to go for it Cheap Rashan Gary Jersey ,” Williams said, via Michael Silver of NFL Media. “I want to play to win. We’ve got聽Aaron Rodgers. We (should) play to win — period. We don’t want to put it in anybody else’s hands. We’ve got the best quarterback in the league. We’ve got to put it in his hands and let him do what he does.”Rodgers lamented missing a “gimme” pass on third down before being asked about whether going for it on fourth down could have been a “galvanizing moment” for the team.“If we had gotten the first down, if not then it鈥檚 a short field and we have to hold them to three and we are in the same situation,” Rodgers said.The Packers couldn’t finish in a game they led most of the way and the late punt will likely go down as a white flag for the season if they don’t have a major winning streak in their immediate future.