{"id":724941,"date":"2026-02-03T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:17:18","slug":"report-steelers-to-hire-former-bengals-dl-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724941\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steelers to hire former Bengals DL as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Steelers have their replacement for Karl Dunbar at defensive line coach, The Athletic\u2019s Zac Jackson posted Monday. Pittsburgh is reportedly set to hire former Bengals defensive lineman and Colorado defensive line coach Domata Peko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Peko has plenty of AFC North experience, where he played 11 years for the Steelers\u2019 rival Cincinnati Bengals and one for the Baltimore Ravens. He played as recently as 2020, finishing his 15-year NFL career with the Arizona Cardinals. He retired with 214 games played, 616 total tackles, 47 tackles for loss, and 20 sacks. He was often listed as a nose tackle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Peko, 41, has connections to now-Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy, getting his coaching start as an assistant defensive line coach for the Dallas Cowboys in 2024. In 2025, he joined Deion Sanders\u2019 staff at Colorado as the defensive line coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Peko will be inheriting a defensive line room led by veteran Cam Heyward \u2014 who he played against multiple times\u2014 and 2025 first-round pick Derrick Harmon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers have their replacement for Karl Dunbar at defensive line coach, The Athletic\u2019s Zac Jackson posted Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,6,79738,2374],"class_list":{"0":"post-724941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-coaching-staff","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116003829090504796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724941","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=724941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}