Pittsburgh Steelers

Stacking AFC North: Steelers still have top QB?

You'll hear NFL teams talk a lot about winning their division as the first goal for their season.

The reason? The surest way to get into the playoffs is to win a division title. And it assures you a home playoff game.

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But to win that division title, you should be as good as — if not better than — your division opponents in a number of areas. That won't guarantee success, but it sure will help.

Ben Roethlisberger is coming back from a season-ending elbow injury that limited him to six quarters in 2019. And at 38, there's little doubt that he's not what he once was physically, though GM Kevin Colbert has said on multiple occasions he feels Roethlisberger could be better than he was when we last saw him, after essentially taking the season off and getting his elbow tightened up.

But the dynamics of the division have changed since Roethlisberger last played a full season in 2018.

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