{"id":103686,"date":"2026-02-03T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103686\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:18:12","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-hire-brother-of-curt-cignetti-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/103686\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers hire brother of Curt Cignetti to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Pittsburgh Steelers are seemingly hiring a new assistant coach every hour, which is why you should all follow along with our assistant coach tracker to keep up with every hire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The most recent hire comes from the Cignetti family, as Mike McCarthy is adding Frank Cignetti Jr. to his staff, per Gerry Dulac.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMike McCarthy is adding former Pitt and IUP coordinator Frank Cignetti Jr. to his offensive staff, per sources,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gerrydulac\/status\/2018355549616623674?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dulac reports<\/a>. \u201cCignetti was McCarthy\u2019s QB coach in Green Bay in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cignetti is the brother of Indiana University head coach Curt Cignetti. He is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and served as IUP\u2019s offensive coordinator in 2025. He\u2019s held several jobs around the NFL, including the St. Louis Rams offensive coordinator in 2015. He was the New York Giants\u2019 quarterbacks coach from 2016-17, and was the OC and QBs coach at Pitt from 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know what you think in the comments. Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are seemingly hiring a new assistant coach every hour, which is why you should all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,41147,4853],"class_list":["post-103686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-coaching-staff","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}