{"id":901868,"date":"2026-05-26T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/901868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:24:21","slug":"analyst-bashes-steelers-gm-omar-khan-not-a-real-go-getter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/901868\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyst Bashes Steelers GM Omar Khan: Not A &#8216;Real Go-Getter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"categories\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/steelers-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"788\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026_PreDraftPressConference_0420to_0005.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy and general manager Omar Khan speak at a press conference at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex before the NFL Draft on Sunday, April 19, 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA. (Taylor Ollason \/ Pittsburgh Steelers)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Omar Khan has been in the Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 front office for a quarter century. Figuratively speaking, his voice is one of the loudest in the building in decision-making as the team\u2019s general manager.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent talking head Colin Cowherd has his doubts about Khan, who succeeded Kevin Colbert after he walked away in 2022. Khan began as the Steelers\u2019 football operations coordinator from the time he was hired until 2011, when he was promoted to director of football administration. In 2016, Khan became the vice president of football and business administration.<\/p>\n<p>Cowherd believes the fact that Khan stuck around so long and waited his turn is curious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-27-2026-Mike-McCarthy-Introduction-20.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Steelers Omar Khan Mike McCarthy\" class=\"wp-image-165427\"  \/>Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Omar Khan at a press conference to introduce head coach Mike McCarthy on Jan. 27, 2026. \u2014 Ed Thompson \/ Steelers Now<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always had this belief, John, that if you\u2019re a really good coordinator, you\u2019re not gonna stay anyplace for 10 years,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9_9qnqGreD0\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cowherd told<\/a> podcast guest John Middlekauff Monday on \u201cThe Colin Cowherd Podcast.\u201d \u201cAnd so Omar Khan was in the building for a long time. I think if you\u2019re a real go-getter, I think you leave the building. And so I don\u2019t look at the Steelers\u2019 front office as elite. I just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they played it safe with Mike McCarthy as a hire, who I don\u2019t think is a disaster, but it\u2019s a safe play. There\u2019s a lot of reports they don\u2019t wanna go backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khan had worked alongside Mike Tomlin until the latter resigned in January. Khan played a part in going out to get McCarthy, whom veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers suggested could give a different perspective.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/omar-khan\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Omar Khan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steelersnow.com\/tag\/steelers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers News Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy and general manager Omar Khan speak at a press conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2055],"tags":[7,6,1256,520,57,2360,426],"class_list":["post-901868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-omar-khan","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-pittsburghsteelers","tag-steelers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116641809627071656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901868","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=901868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}