" Charles D'Donte "Charlie" Batch" is a former United States/American NFL quarterback. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft and played 15 seasons in the NFL, most of it as a backup with his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football at Eastern Michigan Eagles football/Eastern Michigan. Batch earned two Super Bowl rings with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL and Super Bowl XLIII.

Batch currently works for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh as a pre-game analyst for the Steelers as well as with Champs Sports Network as a color analyst for WPIAL high school football and basketball broadcasts.

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They needed a roster spot. If things work out, I'll be back Monday morning.

Leaving the game on Monday, I had no idea (who would start this Sunday), but I knew there was an opportunity to play (against Jacksonville).

I guess his question is, how do you move forward?

When it happened, he stayed in the next play. After that he went off to the side. But I'm still preparing the same way. You have to be ready for everything.

I had a lot of people come out this year and take a look at the program, to potentially take something out of it for their own programs. The City of Pittsburgh is knocking down the door to get into this program, ... I told them, `I'll be more than happy to show you the bumps I had to get over to make it smoother for you.' .

I thought I was going to be there a long time.

Preparation-wise, it's not going to change anything. I won't know until we get to Friday, basically. If Ben practices, I'm sure that'll probably be an indication that he'll play. If he doesn't, I really don't know what to expect.

I'm ready. I'm ready to start. I came in today preparing that way. I'm feeling comfortable, getting back into the groove of things ... and, unless that changes, I'm the guy preparing to play.

We had a lot of opportunities but we didn't do very much with them. We have to regroup and get back to practice and work on it. The good thing is we still have two more weeks left; if this were the last game you'd be a lot more concerned about it.