In 10 games with Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback, the 2015 Pittsburgh Steelers have averaged 338 passing yards per game (easily the league’s best), posted six straight games of 30 or more points and destructed the Steelers’ age-old model that grinding out games with defense is the way to win.

Roethlisberger has entered a stratosphere few can. Based on per-game averages, he’s producing at a clip of 5,390 yards and 29 touchdowns over a full season.

The only compromised number on his 2015 resume is the interception total. A few curious interceptions have blemished his stat line -- slightly.

Ben Roethlisberger had 40 completions, 380 yards and three touchdowns in 55 attempts against Denver on Sunday. AP Photo/Don Wright

Roethlisberger has 12 picks through 10 games, joining Joe Flacco and Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks with 12 or more while playing 10 or fewer games. A pass thrown into double coverage with 2:01 left gave the Denver Broncos new life Sunday night, though the Steelers defense got a stop to preserve a 34-27 win. Roethlisberger's 1.2 interceptions per game is his highest average since 2006.

This is a minor problem.

Here’s why it’s not a major one: The Steelers can live with the mishaps three percent of the time because the other 97 percent of the time Roethlisberger is so explosive.

They can deal with these numbers as a result: 38, 30, 30, 45, 33, 34. Those are the Steelers' scoring totals since mid-November.

On his weekly appearance on 93.7 The Fan Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger said he told general manager Kevin Colbert after the game that he has to stop making costly plays. Colbert told him don't stop. "That's what we live by and die by," Colbert told Roethlisberger. "We've done too many good things to stop."

Roethlisberger is attempting about 40 passes per game. These aren't dumpoffs. Most of his throws test the defense. For much of the season, Roethlisberger's passes have traveled nearly 11 yards in the air on average, the highest mark in the league.

He attempted 55 passes against one of the league’s best defenses Sunday. The Steelers got 40 completions, 380 yards and three touchdowns out of those 55 passes. The two turnovers become less important as a result.

The great quarterbacks can shrug off mistakes and keep firing. Roethlisberger seems unfazed by the occasional errant throw. He’s unflinching in the pocket. Interceptions can be misleading. Quarterbacks who make difficult throws, and make them often, inherently take more chances. This produces more yardage and splash plays, but it can lead to more mistakes.

Twelve interceptions don't begin to tell the whole story. Roethlisberger passes the proverbial eye test.

Here’s where mistakes might matter more: The perception game in the quarterback hierarchy.

As I wrote last month, Roethlisberger is making a compelling case in the discussion of the league's top quarterbacks. It’s becoming a top-three conversation, not top two -- Brady, Rodgers, Roethlisberger.

Brady and Rodgers have better touchdown-to-interception ratios. Those two are phenomenal at scoring without giving the ball away. Both have thrown six interceptions on the year, or one interception every 2.3 games.

Roethlisberger has said in the past he only cares about winning, not quarterback debates. What's not up for debate is Roethlisberger's arm and ability to orchestrate an offense. When it comes to raw playmaking and ball placement, you could argue that nobody is touching him right now.

Roethlisberger's interceptions aren't bad coverage reads. He has no problems in that area. These are forced balls, which means he should be able to reduce them. Two of his costly late-game picks were nearly identical plays in which he rolled to his left, trying to make something happen, attempting to squeeze a ball to the sideline late in the game. This happened in the end of the Cincinnati game on Nov. 1. He was just forcing it.

That was the only interception that cost the Steelers a game. But he has won plenty more than he has lost with the Steelers.

No quarterback is a bigger threat to the New England Patriots.