The Steelers gave Ben multiple multiple extensions. They rode it out until the very end with him. Those other teams did not. They realized they weren't good enough to keep winning with the versions of those quarterbacks they had become. That's the whole point. Ben retired as a Steeler. Montana, Favre, Rodgers, Wilson, Manning, Brady, and many more did not/will not retire with the team they played for most of their careers.
It was questionable if Ben was shot after 2019. They gave him to more years anyway. It was pretty damn apparent by the end of 2020, however, that he was a shell of his former self. But, despite that and the litany of holes in the roster, they decided to draft a freaking running back and run it back one last time with the old noodle arm. Do most other franchises do that?
Would a left tackle not have been a little better use of first round draft capital? I mean, they needed one badly enough that they let the guy they got in the 4th round start as a rookie. But they couldn't take him in the first round because he wasn't the "immediate help" we needed to send Ben off in style. Of course, neither did Najee end up being that, but that's a different discussion.
