2013 marks the 10th season that Ben Roethlisberger has been the Pittsburgh Steelers' starting quarterback. In his Steelers career, Roethlisberger went from Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2004 to the youngest passer to ever win a Super Bowl. He's been to the Pro Bowl twice and is the Steelers franchise passing yardage leader.

Despite a changing cast of wide receivers, running backs, coaches, coordinators and, of course, offensive linemen, Roethlisberger has managed to string together successful seasons that more often than not end with the Steelers in the playoffs. His ability to extend plays while taking punishment other quarterbacks couldn't withstand has been his hallmark and his biggest strength.

That repeated punishment takes a toll, though. Throughout the course of his career, Roethlisberger has suffered a number of injuries, including ones that have caused him to miss games. He hasn't played a full, 16-game season since 2008 and the three games he missed in 2012 was a major reason for the Steelers ending the year with an 8-8 record, resulting in just the third time in his career that the Steelers didn't reach the postseason.

Though Roethlisberger is just 31 years old, he's taken enough hits and suffered enough injuries to have a playing age of 35 or older. The Steelers also just chose to draft a quarterback, Landry Jones, for the first time since 2008. While Roethlisberger is still under contract through the 2015 season, it's curious that the Steelers chose not to extend him—something they do when they're two seasons away from expiring—despite yet again restructuring it.

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ESPN Cleveland's Tony Grossi spoke with new Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator Norv Turner, and the first part of that conversation was released on Monday. The topic? Quarterback Brandon Weeden.

Weeden may be nearly 30 years old, but he's a second-year quarterback dealing with the complexities of full regime change that came after Jimmy Haslam bought the Browns during the 2012 season.

The team's 2013 fate rests in his hands, which means the Browns coaching staff must do all it can to continue his development and turn him into the franchise quarterback the team has lacked for over a decade.

Let's take a look at how Turner and the rest of the Browns' coaching staff can help Weeden get ready to make a leap in 2013 and put the team in a position to contend in both the AFC North and the NFL for years to come.

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During his press conference (via ClevelandBrowns.com) on Thursday following OTAs, Cleveland Browns head coach Rob Chudzinski was asked specifically about the team's interest in former Arizona Cardinals and New England Patriots quarterback Brian Hoyer.

Chudzinski avoided referring to Hoyer by name, saying:

Just a few hours later, the Browns signed Hoyer (per Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer).

The Browns and Hoyer have been at least casually linked since the front office changed hands and Michael Lombardi became the team's general manager.

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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice said at his youth football clinic, Ray Rice Day, that he's ready to start catching more passes, according to Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun.

The idea of "Rice the Receiver" isn't anything new. As Wilson points out, Rice has had the most receptions of any running back since coming into the league in 2008 (311), and he has the second-most receiving yards among running backs (2,713). The idea of Rice being a top receiver in the Ravens offense, with Jim Caldwell as offensive coordinator, is something new, however.

It's not a bad choice for Baltimore in 2013, especially as the team searches for a reliable receiving replacement for Anquan Boldin, whom it traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a sixth-round draft pick. In 2011, Rice had 104 targets—just one less than Boldin, who led the team—and he's regularly amassed 500 or more receiving yards in a season, including over 700, twice. 

Rice's overall offensive role appeared to diminish in 2012. Both his 1,143 rushing and 478 receiving yards were his lowest totals since his rookie season. This wasn't because of any real or perceived decline in Rice's abilities—he's never been injured and is four years away from the dreaded age 30. It was more about the personnel around him and the man tasked, for most of the season, with coordinating them.

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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green is one of the most talented young players at his position. In his two seasons in the NFL, Green has amassed 2,407 yards, 18 touchdowns and 104 first downs on 162 receptions. 

In 2012, he ranked 10th in the league in receiving yards, seventh in receptions, fifth in targets, fourth in touchdowns and ninth in first downs, all while being thrown to by a quarterback, Andy Dalton, who has been in the league for the same amount of time as him.

In both 2011 and 2012, the Dalton-Green connection helped lead the Bengals to the postseason and has produced an offensive renaissance that has nearly faded the Carson Palmer-Chad Johnson years into a vague memory of things past. 

But a wide receiver—even one as naturally talented as Green—needs to be available to catch passes. Yes, Green—like his older contemporaries Calvin Johnson and Andre Johnson—is prodigious in his ability to pull down completions even when double- and triple-covered (just look to his 2012 game summaries by FootballGuys.com for full details), but it's not safe for Dalton to continue to force passes to Green when he's covered by a cornerback (or two) and a safety at the same time.

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While a team's rookie class gets dissected in the days and weeks following the NFL draft, the best way to evaluate how well it did is to see how those players that comprised that draft perform over the course of their careers. 

In 2010, the Pittsburgh Steelers had 10 picks in the draft. Let's take a look at how the Steelers fared that year when it comes to identifying talented players based on how much of—and how positive—an impact they've had in their three seasons in the league.

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A common practice when any year's NFL draft ends is to hand out draft grades for that year's class. While useful in some respects—it's a way to tally how well a given team has met needs and found value and talent—the true measure of whether or not a given team has done so successfully cannot be assessed until years down the line, after these players spend meaningful time in the NFL.

Here, we look back at the Cleveland Browns' 2010 draft class to see just how well the team did in that year's draft. Complicating things somewhat is that these picks were made two regimes ago; to stay with the Browns, therefore, these men need to have serious staying power.

How well did the Browns do in 2010, and how does that translate to the team's current situation, with a new front office and coaching staff? Read on.

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Though grading a draft class right after the NFL draft ends is a popular practice, there's not too much one can learn from it. Granted, it's useful when it comes to evaluating how a team met their perceived needs, found value and made the most of each of their picks, but nothing can really be learned about how well a team drafted until those players take the field and start their professional careers.

Here, we look back at the Baltimore Ravens' 2010 draft class and see how each of their seven picks have fared in the NFL after three seasons and whether or not general manager Ozzie Newsome's vaunted draft genius is a proven fact or just part of the team's mythology. 

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