{"id":721015,"date":"2026-02-01T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721015\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:16:20","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-assistant-coach-shockingly-leaves-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721015\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers assistant coach shockingly leaves team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Steelers have been assembling a new coaching staff since introducing Mike McCarthy as head coach on Tuesday. McCarthy has brought in James Campen as offensive line coach and Patrick Graham as his defensive coordinator, as well as making several other assistant hires, which you can find in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.behindthesteelcurtain.com\/pittsburgh-steelers-news\/165726\/steelers-assistant-coach-tracker-interviews-hires-departures-defensive-offensive-coordinator-news-patrick-graham-jason-simmons-lunda-wells\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">assistant coach tracker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">McCarthy was hoping to retain quarterbacks coach Tom Arth, linebackers coach Scott McCurley, and secondary coach Gerald Alexander. However, the latter is taking a job elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2017637222627856684?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Rapoport<\/a>, Alexander is joining the Minnesota Vikings staff as the defensive pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alexander was on the Steelers\u2019 staff from 2022-23 before leaving to join the Las Vegas Raiders as their safeties coach. He returned in 2025 as the defensive backs coach in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers have been assembling a new coaching staff since introducing Mike McCarthy as head coach on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,79738,2374,2360,426],"class_list":{"0":"post-721015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","12":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-coaching-staff","13":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","14":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","15":"tag-steelers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115994387190637482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721015","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=721015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}