Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said Tuesday that he is hopeful that his knee will be feeling well enough for him to return to the lineup for the team’s Week Nine game against the Ravens.
His longtime antagonist Terrell Suggs wants to be on the other side of the ball. The Ravens linebacker tore his biceps late in a Week Six loss to the Giants and did not play against the Jets last Sunday, but was on the practice field for the Ravens’ bye week workout on Tuesday.
Suggs said he wants to play against the Steelers and said that the issue will be “pain tolerance” because he’s sure this isn’t a season-ending injury.
“Man, who am I? What team do I play for? I come from an area where this is just a bump in the road,” Suggs said, via the Baltimore Sun. “It may be season-ending for somebody else. It’s not season-ending for Ravens. I’ve played through it before. I told you all that. That was always the plan. Last time, I tore it [in 2012], I missed the first game. I came back and struggled through the second game. I slowly but surely got it back, and it came at a good time. We’ve got nine left. We’re still in second place in the [AFC North] division, and we can still do some things. I want to be here when we do that.”
Suggs only missed one game after tearing his biceps in 2012 and helped the team on their run to a Super Bowl title. This year’s Ravens team hasn’t shown many signs of going on that kind of run during their current four-game losing streak, but Suggs wants to be part of turning things around in Baltimore.