{"id":712179,"date":"2026-01-28T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/712179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:30:12","slug":"jason-simmons-to-interview-for-steelers-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/712179\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Simmons to interview for Steelers&#8217; DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Washington Commanders<\/a> continue to rebuild their coaching staff, they may need to adjust for additional coaches leaving the organization. On Tuesday, it was announced that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" data-autotag=\"a4fb178e-5fd0-440a-8a7b-b87aea742850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Commanders<\/a>&#8216; defensive passing game coordinator, Jason Simmons, will interview for the Pittsburgh Steelers&#8217; vacant defensive coordinator position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Simmons is a former Pittsburgh Steelers safety. He played there from 1998-2001, followed by six seasons with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/houston-texans\/325\" data-autotag=\"4fdb1a06-1d90-42ff-b7f7-5268ecaf7955\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Houston Texans<\/a> before retiring as a player. After his playing career, Simmons joined the ranks of coaches in the NFL. For eight of his first nine seasons, he coached with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" data-autotag=\"2b76aec5-0d77-4545-9a2a-f864de5488eb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> under Mike McCarthy, the new head coach of the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">While Simmons may have his own motivation for heading to Pittsburgh, this could also be a sign that the <a href=\"http:\/\/commanderswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/commanders\/2026\/01\/26\/washington-commanders-daronte-jones-defensive-coordinator\/88371559007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commanders&#8217; new defensive coordinator, Daronte Jones<\/a>, may be bringing his own staff to Washington. Between his collegiate and professional coaching experience, he likely has a list of coaches he&#8217;s ready to bring in. Whether that&#8217;s what he does or not remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Given the connections between Simmons and McCarthy and Pittsburgh, it wouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to see him head back to the Steelers. So if Jones doesn&#8217;t have a plan for his staff, he should probably think of someone to step in.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m. ET As the Washington Commanders continue to rebuild their coaching staff, they may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[95878,7,6,520,57,2360,95993,95994,426,95882,95976,95953,95896,95888,95895,95899,95884,95883,96006,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-712179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","13":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","14":"tag-sstssportsnflcommanders","15":"tag-sstsncommanders","16":"tag-steelers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-taggreen-bay-packers","19":"tag-taghouston-texans","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","25":"tag-tagsports-news","26":"tag-tagwashington-commanders","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712179","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=712179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}