“It’s an honor to be asked to do this. To be considered, to get a call from (Steelers vice president) Dan Rooney to ask me to do that means a lot. With the rich tradition and history of the players that have come before me, and I’ve gotten the pleasure to play with, to be included in that group is just humbling and it’s such an honor.

“It’s cool and on a couple of fronts. To be there at the Draft, to be on the North Shore, to be around Steelers Nation. It’s always something special, whether it’s in Ireland, here, wherever it is, it is always great to be where the black and gold faithful are. But the other cool part is to go back up onto a Draft stage. It has been since 2004 since I’ve been on a Draft stage like that and that environment. It is kind of nostalgic.” — Ben, from his interview with Teresa Varley.





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