{"id":103050,"date":"2026-02-02T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103050\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:12:07","slug":"steelers-hire-another-coach-with-pittsburgh-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103050\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers Hire Another Coach with Pittsburgh Ties ."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mike McCarthy<\/a> is adding former Pitt and IUP coordinator Frank Cignetti to his staff, according to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Dulac did not specify what role Cignetti will have on McCarthy\u2019s offensive staff. Tom Arth was retained as the Steelers\u2019 quarterbacks coach, so it could be a senior offensive assistant type of role. It appears that McCarthy will have a big staff than what Mike Tomlin<\/a> had. <\/p>\n

Frank Cignetti is the younger brother of Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti. The older Cignetti led Indiana to an improbable 16-0 season that concluded with a National Championship title. The Cignetti\u2019s dad, Frank Cignetti Sr., was the head coach at IUP from 1986-2005. He also was West Virginia\u2019s HC from 1976-1979. <\/p>\n

Frank Cignetti was the offensive coordinator at IUP last season after serving as Pitt\u2019s OC from 2022-2023. Prior to his time at Pitt, he was Boston College\u2019s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2020-2021. He served as the Packers\u2019 quarterbacks coach for one season in 2018 under McCarthy. Before that, he was the New York Giants quarterbacks coach from 2016-2017 under fellow IUP grad Ben McAdoo.<\/p>\n

Cignetti has mostly worked with the quarterbacks throughout his coaching career. He was a graduate assistant at Pitt with McCarthy in 1989. He also served as the Saints\u2019 quarterbacks coach from 2000-2001 when McCarthy<\/a> was the OC in New Orleans. <\/p>\n

Mike McCarthy is adding former Pitt and IUP coordinator Frank Cignetti Jr. to his offensive staff, per sources. Cignetti was McCarthy’s QB coach in Green Bay in 2018.<\/p>\n

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McCarthy hired several coaches to his staff last week. He has also kept two coaches<\/a> from Tomlin\u2019s<\/a> staff in Arth and linebackers coach Scott McCurley<\/a>. McCarthy planned to keep defensive backs coach Gerald Alexander<\/a>, but he accepted a defensive pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach position with the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n

McCarthy has hired a slew of coaches with ties to Pittsburgh<\/a>, or at the very least a connection with him in past places that he\u2019s coached. <\/p>\n

It was also reported<\/a> on Monday that the Steelers are expected to hire Danny Crossman<\/a> as their special teams coordinator. Crossman was a second-team all-America and all-Big East cornerback at Pitt in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

McCarthy and Cignetti were both graduate assistants at Pitt for Crossman\u2019s final year with the Panthers in 1989.<\/p>\n

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