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Giants learned not to time Manning by Big Ben's clock

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Thursday, October 23, 2008

During Ben Roethlisberger's rookie season in 2004, New York Giants front-office officials fretted at his rapid rise to success. The Giants had invested everything in the trade to make Eli Manning their franchise quarterback. Roethlisberger fell into the Pittsburgh Steelers' lap when he dropped to the 11th pick in the 2004 draft. Then-Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi liked Roethlisberger but didn't want to use the fourth pick in the draft on a Miami (Ohio) prospec ...

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