{"id":660253,"date":"2026-01-07T04:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:59:12","slug":"who-is-nfls-longest-tenured-head-coach-its-still-mike-tomlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/660253\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is NFL’s longest-tenured head coach? It’s still Mike Tomlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AFC wild-card predictions: Which teams will advance to divisional round<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports Chris Bumbaca and Joe Rivera share who they think will make it out of the AFC Wild Card round.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

There’s an old saying about what NFL means for players and coaches who fail to meet expectations \u2013 Not For Long.<\/p>\n

While there’s a short list of coaches with real staying power, the ranks of longest-tenured NFL head coaches is being rearranged this week, most notably after the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> on Jan. 6 fired John Harbaugh<\/a>, ending the Super Bowl-winning coach’s 18-year run with the franchise.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh’s tenure was second-longest among active NFL coaches, behind only Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tomlin is preparing the Steelers for an AFC wild-card showdown<\/a> against the Houston Texans<\/a> on Jan. 12 after Ravens kicker Tyler Loop missed the potential game-winning kick in the Steelers’ 26-24 win over the Ravens<\/a> that clinched the AFC North title on Jan. 4.<\/p>\n

Tomlin hasn’t been immune to calls for the Steelers to part ways<\/a> with their longtime coach this season, but that conversation will be shelved as long as the Steelers remain Super Bowl contenders.<\/p>\n

For now, here’s a look at the longest-tenured NFL coaches, which aside from Harbaugh was also changed by the Cleveland Browns’ firing of Kevin Stefanski<\/a> (six years in Cleveland) on Jan. 5, this year’s “Black Monday.”<\/p>\n

For those wondering, Curly Lambeau in Green Bay (1921-49) and Tom Landry in Dallas (1960-88) are tied for the longest tenure leading one team at 29 seasons.<\/p>\n

1. Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh SteelersAge: 51Number of seasons: 9Record with Bills: 98-50 (.662)Playoff berths: 8T3. Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ersT6. Matt LaFleur, Green Bay PackersAge: 46Number of seasons: 7Record with Packers: 76-40-1 (.654)Playoff berths: 6Age: 42Number of seasons: 7Record with Bengals: 52-63-1 (.453Playoff berths (Super Bowls): 2 (1; lost Super Bowl 56<\/a>)Age: 49Number of seasons: 5Record with Lions: 48-36-1 (.571)Playoff berths: 2T10. Mike McDaniel, Miami DolphinsAge: 42Number of seasons: 4Record with Dolphins: 35-33 (.515)Playoff berths: 2Age: 62Number of seasons: 4Record with Buccaneers: 35-33 (.515)Playoff berths: 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFC wild-card predictions: Which teams will advance to divisional round USA TODAY Sports Chris Bumbaca and Joe Rivera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[247,265,825,240,184,117,210,5662,228,5663,3851,215,211,214,53,346,227,256,739,5570,324,95569,61691,146,113,25,7,221,253,20842,805,110,3420,6680,147,239,58,3787,3031,5936,3687,1458,1255,248,267,246,88,6,35196,245,264,537,242,109,530,424,169,818,3686,3026,3307,817,829,9,5573,266,819,209,250,222,1459,5571,776],"class_list":["post-660253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-american-football-conference","tag-angeles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-bay","tag-belichick","tag-bengals","tag-bill","tag-bill-belichick","tag-bills","tag-buccaneers","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-chiefs","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-city","tag-coaching","tag-conference","tag-curly","tag-curly-lambeau","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-eagles","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-hub","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-lafleur","tag-lambeau","tag-lions","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-matt","tag-matt-lafleur","tag-mcdermott","tag-mcvay","tag-mike","tag-mike-tomlin","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-positive","tag-rams","tag-ravens","tag-scores","tag-sean","tag-sean-mcdermott","tag-sean-mcvay","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-texans","tag-tomlin","tag-training","tag-u0026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660253","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=660253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}