March 6, 2026, 4:32 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
The Arizona Cardinals<\/a> already announced their new head coach, their new and returning coordinators and their assistant coaches, both new and returning. However, they are making another addition on the defensive staff.<\/p>\n According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler<\/a>, the Cardinals are adding former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Teryl Austin as a senior assistant.<\/p>\n It won’t be Austin’s first stint in Arizona. He was defensive backs coach for the Cardinals from 2007-2009 under head coach Ken Whisenhunt.<\/p>\n Austin brings tons of experience to the staff. We will see how that works with retained defensive coordinator Nick Rallis.<\/p>\n The Cardinals now have two defensive assistants who have been defensive coordinators. One is Austin and the other is new defensive line coach Pete Kwiatkowski, who was a college defensive coordinator for Texas and Washington.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n The one question that comes up is whether the Cardinals now have lined up a guy to replace Rallis if the defense struggles again.<\/p>\n Teryl Austin NFL coaching career<\/p>\n Austin was in the college ranks from 1991-2002. After that, he has been in the NFL, except for a stint at Florida in 2010.<\/p>\n 2003-2006: Seattle Seahawks, defensive backs coach2007-2009: Arizona Cardinals, defensive backs coach2011-2013: Baltimore Ravens, secondary coach2014-2017: Detroit Lions, defensive coordinator2018: Cincinnati Bengals, defensive coordinator2019-2021: Pittsburgh Steelers, senior defensive assistant\/secondary coach2022-2025: Pittsburgh Steelers, defensive coordinator<\/p>\n Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 6, 2026, 4:32 p.m. MT The Arizona Cardinals already announced their new head coach, their new and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2078],"tags":[95878,375,390,2604,1327,7,6,95973,95974,95882,95890,95892,95896,95888,95895,95899,96008,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-797505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-cardinals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-cardinals","11":"tag-arizonacardinals","12":"tag-cardinals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sstssportsnflcardinals","16":"tag-sstsncardinals","17":"tag-tagamerican-football","18":"tag-tagarizona-cardinals","19":"tag-tagespn-inc","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnfl","22":"tag-tagnfl-hub","23":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","24":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","25":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116185698676838172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797505","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=797505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}