NFL facilities are slowly beginning to reopen. Before too long, it will be business as usual.

And Roland Rivers III still doesn’t have a destination.

The quarterback guided Slippery Rock University to 23 wins in 26 games over the past two years. SRU won all 14 of its conference games with him behind center.

Rivers stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 230 pounds. He threw for 7,181 yards and 80 touchdown passes in those 26 games. He rushed for 1,297 yards and another 16 scores.

There were 13 quarterbacks chosen in the NFL draft. Another three quarterbacks were signed as undrafted free agents afterward. He was not among them.

Yeah, he was a Division II quarterback. And no Division II quarterback has been drafted by an NFL team since 2011.

I get all that.

But if you can play, you can play. This guy can play.

He won the Harlon Hill Trophy last fall as the best player in all of NCAA Division II football. That should account for something.

The man can launch a football 65 yards in the air and with accuracy. I’ve seen it, more than a few times. That should count for something.

Rivers has orchestrated huge comeback wins, including last year’s PSAC championship victory at Kutztown. He surveys the field, doesn’t lock down on any one receiver, gets everybody involved.

All of that should account for something.

Apparently, it doesn’t. Not yet, anyway.

Rivers’ situation makes me think of former Edinboro quarterback Trevor Harris, who played in the same conference a decade ago.

The two are similar in size. Harris is 6-3, 210 pounds. He had NFL tryouts with Jacksonville and Buffalo that didn’t pan out.

But he’s still playing.

Now with the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL, Harris threw for 4,027 yards and 16 touchdowns last season. With Ottawa the year before, he threw for 5,116 yards and 22 scores.

Harris is still going strong. He’s built a lengthy career as a CFL quarterback.

Rivers will not have that CFL option, at least not this year, as that league has canceled its season.

Clearly, Rivers’ physical tools are NFL-caliber. Maybe that league’s talent evaluators question whether he is football-savvy enough to navigate an offense at that level.

Of course, they’ll never know that unless a team brings him into camp and takes an extended look.

The Steelers certainly know about Rivers. They’re not exactly deep at the quarterback position. Nor did they draft or sign a QB as an undrafted free agent.

What’s the harm in bringing a guy like Rivers in?

The guy may totally wash out. He may never take a snap in an NFL game.

But a player with his credentials and physical stature to not even get a look?

That would be a travesty.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle