PITTSBURGH -- Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger refuted a report that he broke a bone in his right wrist in a 35-32 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.
Roethlisberger did not practice Wednesday, but the Steelers listed him as out for a non-injury reason, which almost always signifies a veteran's day off.
The Steelers are required to disclose if Roethlisberger is hurt on their injury report. They would be subject to NFL discipline if they tried to hide an injury.
Roethlisberger threw some passes to his receivers after the Steelers' first practice of the week and did not have anything on his hand or wrist. Afterward, he said a report claiming he has a broken bone in his right wrist is false.
The 11-year veteran hurt his right hand in the first quarter against the Saints when he banged it off linebacker Curtis Lofton's wrist pad while throwing a pass. Roethlisberger did not come out of the game and declined to have an X-ray taken of his hand.
Roethlisberger said he lost feeling in several of his fingers but added that it didn't affect his throwing and that he is fine.
"I got the feeling back and am ready to rock and roll," Roethlisberger said Wednesday morning. "It was just the loss of feeling in two fingers and nothing that you can't play through."
Coach Mike Tomlin did not mention Roethlisberger when he gave an injury update Tuesday at his weekly news conference.
Asked if he talked to Roethlisberger about his right hand in between the first and second quarter of last week's game, Tomlin said, "I don't make it an issue unless it is one. He didn't make it one, so we kept our conversations the way we normally keep them. I knew that if it was a legitimate issue he would talk to me about it or the doctors would."