{"id":700400,"date":"2026-01-24T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/700400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:26:31","slug":"steelers-arthur-smith-teryl-austin-drawing-coordinator-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/700400\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers\u2019 Arthur Smith, Teryl Austin drawing coordinator interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers are searching for a new head coach, meaning that assistants under former head coach Mike Tomlin have been searching for jobs elsewhere around the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Teams have requested interviews with Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith for both head coaching and offensive coordinator jobs this offseason. Smith interviewed with the Tennessee Titans for their head coaching job, which was filled this week by Robert Saleh. However, ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported Friday that the team is talking to him about their offensive coordinator job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith was previously the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans from 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Smith has reportedly also drawn interest in the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 head coaching search, as well as the Chargers and Lions\u2019 offensive coordinator searches. Only the Arizona job remains unfilled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Steelers defensive coordinator Teryl Austin has also started to draw interest. On Friday, The Athletic\u2019s Nicki Jhabvala reported that Austin interviewed for the Washington Commanders\u2019 defensive coordinator job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Steelers special teams coordinator Danny Smith already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/pittsburgh-steelers-news\/165479\/steelers-special-teams-coordinator-danny-smith-lands-new-job-tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found a new job<\/a>, moving to the same position with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers are searching for a new head coach, meaning that assistants under former head coach Mike Tomlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[7,6,79738,2374,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-700400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennessee-titans","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-coaching-staff","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","12":"tag-tennessee","13":"tag-tennessee-titans","14":"tag-tennesseetitans","15":"tag-titans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115947712287289969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700400","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=700400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}