{"id":730748,"date":"2026-02-05T08:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730748\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:25:29","slug":"steelers-hire-former-panthers-te-coach-brian-angelichio-as-new-oc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/730748\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers hire former Panthers TE coach Brian Angelichio as new OC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 4, 2026, 2:41 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Another former <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> coach is set to become an offensive coordinator in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh-steelers\/356\" data-autotag=\"c4d4185f-a327-423a-aa54-67a40f9dee05\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapSheet\/status\/2019127009096655286?s=20\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">expected to hire<\/a> Brian Angelichio as their new offensive coordinator. Angelichio, who most recently served as the passing game coordinator and tight ends coach for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/minnesota-vikings\/347\" data-autotag=\"839728ed-97f0-4c7c-9ea6-299b7540514e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>, previously spent two seasons as the Panthers&#8217; tight ends coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Those two campaigns came in 2020 and 2021, under former head coach Matt Rhule. Angelichio and Rhule had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/brian-angelichio-matt-rhule-college-recruiting-reconnect-in-carolina\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crossed paths<\/a> numerous times as college coaches on the recruiting circuit, when the former was at the University of Pittsburgh and the latter at Temple University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Angelichio would move on to Minnesota in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In addition to Angelichio, former Panthers head coach Frank Reich\u2014who succeeded Rhule in 2023\u2014has also <a href=\"http:\/\/pantherswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/panthers\/2026\/02\/04\/nfl-coaching-news-jets-frank-reich-panthers\/88507138007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed in<\/a> on an offensive coordinator opening. Reich will call plays for the New York Jets under former teammate Aaron Glenn.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\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<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ThePanthersWire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@ThePanthersWire<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter\/X for more Panthers content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 4, 2026, 2:41 p.m. ET Another former Carolina Panthers coach is set to become an offensive coordinator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[95878,235,260,2567,7,6,236,97114,97115,95882,96059,95988,95888,95895,95897,95899,96720,96177,95884,95883,104748,95894,99111,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-730748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-panthers","15":"tag-sstssportsnflpanthers","16":"tag-sstsnpanthers","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagcarolina-panthers","19":"tag-tagminnesota-vikings","20":"tag-tagnfl","21":"tag-tagnfl-hub","22":"tag-tagoverall-negative","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagpittsburgh-steelers","25":"tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","26":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-tagtemple-university","29":"tag-tagtwitter","30":"tag-taguniversity-of-pittsburgh","31":"tag-typestory"},"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\/730748","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=730748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}