{"id":702771,"date":"2026-05-29T18:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:56:12","slug":"former-tennessee-vols-assistant-gets-fired-from-nfl-job-just-3-months-after-he-was-hired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702771\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee Vols assistant gets fired from NFL job just 3 months after he was hired"},"content":{"rendered":"

A former Tennessee Volunteers graduate assistant was let go on Friday just months after he was hired by the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A former Tennessee Vols graduate assistant was let go by the Pittsburgh Steelers on Friday just three months after he was hired.<\/p>\n

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ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter reported on Friday morning that Pittsburgh \u201cparted ways\u201d with assistant special teams coach Derius Swinton.<\/p>\n

Schefter reported that the Steelers parted ways with Swinon due to a violation of club policy.<\/p>\n

Swinton was hired by the Steelers in February after spending the last three seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Derius Swinton was a graduate assistant at Tennessee during the final two years of the Phillip Fulmer era<\/p>\n

Swinton, who played college football at Hampton from 2003 to 2006, got his start in coaching at Tennessee in 2007.<\/p>\n

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The Virginia native served as a defensive graduate assistant under Phillip Fulmer in 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n

Swinton hasn\u2019t returned to the college ranks since his time at Tennessee.<\/p>\n

One of Swinton\u2019s stops in the NFL was with the Denver Broncos<\/a> in 2013 and 2014. At the time, Denver had so much Volunteer orange on the roster and coaching staff that Fulmer made the trip to Colorado for a visit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Swinton is on the far left in the photo below (via DenverBroncos.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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At this time, it\u2019s unclear what club policy led to Pittsburgh parting ways with Swinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Tennessee Volunteers graduate assistant was let go on Friday just months after he was hired by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[24724,64,63,1256,342114,342112,1250,593,342113,1241,85,973,1221],"class_list":["post-702771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adam-schefter","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-denver-broncos","tag-derius-swinton","tag-graduate-assistant","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-nfl","tag-phillip-fulmer","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}