For the first time in his 15-year head coaching career, Mike Tomlin is entering an offseason without Ben Roethlisberger as the franchise quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Roethlisberger, 39, has yet to make an official announcement, but Tomlin is "proceeding with the assumption" that the quarterback won't be playing next season.

The Steelers will undoubtedly bring in new arms to compete for the starting job, and Tomlin said he doesn't care if the fresh faces come from free agency, a trade or the 2022 NFL draft.

"All options are on the table," Tomlin said. "I enjoy working with [general manager] Kevin [Colbert] this time of year because we speak plain English. We have to improve our football team. There's two major ways you do it. You do it to free agency, and you do it through the draft. We have to look at what's available to us in the draft positionally. And we have to look at what's available to us, potentially, in free agency, positionally, and then we kind of bring those two discussions together. And it kind of gives us a path in which to go about addressing our needs."