By James Walker
After a tumultuous 2010 offseason, Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger has rebounded nicely.
One year ago Ben Roethlisberger was the talk of the NFL for all the wrong reasons. The Pittsburgh Steelers' franchise quarterback faced his second sexual assault allegation in two years in addition to a huge image crisis.
Roethlisberger's public persona was so much in the dumps that even controversial rapper Eminem ripped the embattled quarterback in one of his songs.
Endorsements dried up and a suspension was looming. Roethlisberger quickly went from hero to villain in Pittsburgh, and the Steelers were not happy about it. Not only that, Roethlisberger and the Steelers missed the playoffs in 2009 and flopped in defense of the team's sixth championship.
Down to his last strike, you wondered if Roethlisberger could recover. But one year later that dark cloud has lifted, and Roethlisberger has done a great job in a short time of getting his life and image back on track.
On the field, Roethlisberger was within a touchdown drive of winning his third Super Bowl, which certainly sped up the process. But off the field he put a genuine effort into becoming a better teammate and more personable. In another significant step in Roethlisberger's life, he's getting married to his fiancé, Ashley Harlan, on July 23.
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