Head coach Mike Tomlin is leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers after 19 seasons, the team confirmed on Tuesday.
“Obviously, I am extremely grateful to Mike for all the hard work, dedication and success we have shared over the last 19 years. It is hard for me to put into words the level of respect and appreciation I have for Coach Tomlin,” Steelers president Art Rooney II said in a statement. “He guided the franchise to our sixth Super Bowl championship and made the playoffs 13 times during his tenure, including winning the AFC North eight times in his career.”
The 53-year-old leaves the Steelers never having recorded a losing season during his long tenure with the team, but Pittsburgh’s loss to the Houston Texans on Monday night extended a streak of playoff losses, and there were scattered chants of “Fire Tomlin” from the home crowd. Tomlin’s Steelers last won a playoff game in the 2016 season.
During his nearly two decades in charge of the team, Tomlin compiled 193 wins in the regular season, a total that puts him ninth all-time in NFL history and tied with another legendary Steelers head coach, Chuck Noll. He won the Super Bowl in February 2009 in his second season with the Steelers and reached the title game again two years later but lost to the Green Bay Packers.
Although he led his team to the playoffs on a consistent basis afterwards they rarely looked like genuine Super Bowl contenders and Pittsburgh now hope his replacement, who will be just the team’s fourth head coach since 1969, will bring revitalize the franchise.
The first thing the new head coach will need to address is quarterback. The Steelers have not had a high quality starter since Ben Roethlisberger retired after the 2021 season. The team’s starter this past season was Aaron Rodgers, and while he did an adequate job in 2025, he is 42 and has hinted he may retire in the coming weeks.
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