The Pittsburgh Steelers are closing in on hiring Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham as their next defensive coordinator, according to Gerry Dulac of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Graham worked under McCarthy in Green Bay as the linebackers coach and run game coordinator in 2018 before being hired by Brian Flores to become his defensive coordinator in 2019.
After 2019, Graham left Miami and headed to the Giants, where he was their defensive coordinator from 2020 to 2021. Graham then took a leap to Las Vegas, where he has been the Raiders’ defensive coordinator ever since, even being retained across multiple staffs.
Graham came up in the NFL under Bill Belichick in New England. He first entered the NFL in 2009 as a coaching assistant after being at Toledo as their defensive line coach.
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He coached the defensive line and linebackers for New England before eventually ascending up the NFL ladder to being the Giants’ defensive line coach in 2016.
Over his career as a defensive coordinator, there have been mixed results with Graham’s defenses, though the talent across many of the teams he has worked with has fallen flat.
A graduate of Yale in 2001, Graham played defensive line in college before heading over to the college ranks as a coach.