{"id":653465,"date":"2026-01-04T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:41:14","slug":"adam-schefter-reveals-if-mike-tomlin-is-expected-to-return-to-steelers-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653465\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Schefter reveals if Mike Tomlin is expected to return to Steelers in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter revealed if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/mike-tomlin-132569\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tomlin<\/a> is expected to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2026. The answer seems to be yes.<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers go into Sunday nihgt against the Baltimore Ravens in a win-or-go-home situation for the AFC North. At 9-7, Tomlin won\u2019t have a losing record this year, again, but they could very well miss the playoffs if they play similar to how they did against the Cleveland Browns last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, well, there has been so much speculation about the future of Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh, we heard Steeler fans chanting about a month ago, fire Mike Tomlin,\u201d Schefter said on<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsCenter\" rel=\"nofollow\"> SportsCenter.<\/a> \u201cNo, the Pittsburgh Steelers are not going to fire Mike Tomlin, and there continue to be questions about his future. I think the belief around the league is that Tomlin is going to be back to fulfill the last year on his contract. But obviously those conversations will occur after tonight\u2019s game will have a bearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tomlin\u2019s contract currently has two years remaining on it. That would be for 2026 and a team option for 2027. The Steelers must decide whether they\u2019re exercising that option on Tomlin\u2019s contract by March 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be organizational meetings and decisions that occur,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/news\/steelers-to-retain-mike-tomlin-will-decide-on-option-year-in-offseason\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Schefter wrote<\/a> in December. \u201cBut not until after this season is complete, with a full body of work for all appropriate parties to review, sources said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schefter also brought some of the factors that will be under consideration to light. A few of note:<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh hasn\u2019t won a playoff game since 2016<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers haven\u2019t had a losing season under Tomlin (18 years)<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh could look to trade the head coach<\/p>\n<p>Finally, though, Schefter noted that the Steelers and Tomlin are \u201cfar from any decisions.\u201d The team remains focused on the season at hand and finding a way to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Goldkamp contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter revealed if Mike Tomlin is expected to return to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2026. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,1255,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-653465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-mike-tomlin","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115837356261063929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}