{"id":731065,"date":"2026-02-05T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/731065\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:30:47","slug":"report-pittsburgh-steelers-finalizing-deal-with-brian-angelichio-as-offensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/731065\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pittsburgh Steelers finalizing deal with Brian Angelichio as offensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Steelers have their offensive coordinator. They\u2019re finalizing a deal with Brian Angelichio for the role on Mike McCarthy\u2019s Pittsburgh staff, according to NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The 53-year-old spent the past four seasons as the Minnesota Vikings\u2019 passing game coordinator and tight ends coach. He\u2019s never been an offensive coordinator in the NFL, but he did serve at Ithaca from 2000-2005 in the role.<\/p>\n

Evidently, McCarthy believes in his ability, and is hoping for him to grow into the role. Of course, McCarthy is an accomplished play-caller himself, so there will be a sturdy shoulder to lean on for Angelichio.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, McCarthy also added\u00a0Frank Cignetti Jr.<\/a>\u00a0to the offensive staff, according to Gerry Dulac.<\/a>\u00a0The son of legendary coach Frank Cignetti Sr. and brother to Indiana coach\u00a0Curt Cignetti,<\/a>\u00a0Frank Jr. will reunite with McCarthy for the first time in eight years.<\/p>\n

Cignetti Jr. spent the 2025 season as the offensive coordinator of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, similar to his brother and father. He\u2019s been a well traveled coach since being a GA at Pittsburgh in 1989. The Pittsburgh native is now coming home to coach under McCarthy.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the Packers struggled to a 6-9-1 record, prior to a resurgence for\u00a0Aaron Rodgers<\/a>\u00a0and Green Bay. It was McCarthy\u2019s final season in Green Bay and the lone one for Cignetti Jr.<\/p>\n

More on the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/p>\n

After five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys and a year off, McCarthy is ready to get back to it with the Steelers. He\u2019s 174-112-2 as a head coach, winning Super Bowl XLV with the Packers.<\/p>\n

During a hit on Friday\u2019s edition of \u2018The Pat McAfee Show<\/a>\u2018, McCarthy gave the latest on\u00a0Rodgers\u2019 potential return to the Steelers next season: \u201cYes, I\u2019ve spoken to Aaron a number of times,\u201d McCarthy stated. \u201cI think just like anybody that\u2019s played the game, particularly at this point in their career, it\u2019s important to get away. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a normal process that all of these players do, to decompress and step away from the season. That\u2019s the mindset he\u2019s in, and that\u2019s as far as our conversations have gone as far as if he\u2019s coming back or not coming back. It\u2019s important for him to do the things he normally does; stepping away and making those decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodgers just finished his 21st season in the NFL with his third different organization. 18 of those 21 years were spent with the Packers, while the other two were spent with the New York Jets. <\/p>\n

Rodgers willed the Steelers to an AFC North title, passing for 3,322 yards and 24 touchdowns with seven interceptions. If he were to retire,\u00a0Mason Rudolph<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Will Howard<\/a>\u00a0would be the two remaining quarterbacks on Pittsburgh\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

\u2014 On3\u2019s Nick Kosko contributed to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers have their offensive coordinator. They\u2019re finalizing a deal with Brian Angelichio for the role on Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":["post-731065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pittsburghsteelers","tag-steelers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116018035168966860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731065","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=731065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}