{"id":732044,"date":"2026-02-05T21:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732044\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:57:25","slug":"steelers-to-hire-former-nfl-player-as-new-outside-linebackers-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/732044\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers to hire former NFL player as new outside linebackers coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> completely reshaped their coaching staff and identity over the past few weeks \u2014 and it appears head coach Mike McCarthy<\/a> is ready to bring in yet another new hire.<\/p>\n

According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, Texas Tech outside linebackers coach C.J. Ah You, who previously interviewed with the Steelers<\/a>, is expected to be named Pittsburgh’s new outside linebackers coach.<\/p>\n

Ah You, a former player for the Buffalo Bills<\/a> and Los Angeles Rams<\/a>, transitioned to coaching in 2015 as Oklahoma’s special teams quality control coach. He also served as the defensive line coach for Vanderbilt (2016-2018), the defensive line coach New York Guardians (2020), the quality control analyst at USC (2021), and most recently the outside linebackers coach at Texas Tech (2022-2025).<\/p>\n

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McCarthy clearly joined the Steelers organization ready to make an impact, making several big changes to Pittsburgh’s coaching staff, including some high-profile hires that fans can take a look at here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Steelers Wire: Steelers to hire C.J. Ah You as new outside linebackers coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers completely reshaped their coaching staff and identity over the past few weeks \u2014 and it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,7,4193,58,7866,6,126,57,2299,3257],"class_list":{"0":"post-732044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-buffalo-bills","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-linebackers-coach","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams","12":"tag-mike-mccarthy","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nfl-network","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","16":"tag-texas-tech","17":"tag-tom-pelissero"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116020264553080287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732044","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=732044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}