PITTSBURGH – With a snow shower expected and temperatures dropping into the low teens on Sunday at Heinz Field, Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell sees a clear-cut advantage over the Miami Dolphins in the AFC wild-card round.

“We have the best cold-weather quarterback in the league,” Bell said.

From growing up in northwest Ohio to playing 13 seasons in Pittsburgh, Ben Roethlisberger has managed frigid football conditions for much of his life. That makes potential playoff stops in Kansas City and New England more palatable, even if the numbers show Roethlisberger isn’t the same quarterback on the road.

For his career, Roethlisberger is 21-7 in games 32 degrees or colder. Only Tom Brady (67) and Aaron Rodgers (55) have more touchdown passes in cold-weather games than Roethlisberger (41). His 8.2 yards per attempt in the cold is slightly below Rodgers’ average. (All numbers provided by ESPN Stats & Information.)

Couple those trends with Roethlisberger’s throwing stats in Pittsburgh, and Miami faces steep challenge on Sunday. In his last 16 home starts, Roethlisberger has 5,458 passing yards, 50 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. That’s 341 yards and 3.1 touchdowns per game. It’s hard to lose with that line.

But if the Steelers are to win a seventh Super Bowl title, Roethlisberger might need to buck the trend of 4,464 yards, 17 touchdowns and 17 interceptions in his last 16 road starts. The yards are still there, but the scoring opportunities are far less frequent.

Still, the Steelers like their chances any time Roethlisberger takes the field in snow or sunshine.

“He’s big. He’s got big hands,” Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley said of Big Ben. “Some guys I think just enjoy being in [cold weather] a little bit more than others.”

Roethlisberger did note the comfort of no wind during a dome performance in Week 12 in Indianapolis. But in general, he believes throwing through the wind is part of the Steelers’ fabric. Roethlisberger certainly was in his comfort zone in 2004, when as a draft prospect he dominated a Cleveland Browns private workout through Ohio rain and wind.

Roethlisberger typically wears one glove on his left hand in cold weather, leaving his right hand bare because he likes to feel the ball.

“Being from not far from here, a couple of hours, you’re used to bad weather playing in the backyard,” Roethlisberger said. “We played in snow, rain and mud, whatever it was. I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”