{"id":105521,"date":"2026-02-05T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105521\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:14:16","slug":"steelers-hire-vikings-brian-angelichio-as-offensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105521\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers hire Vikings&#8217; Brian Angelichio as offensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike McCarthy&#8217;s new offensive coordinator is an old friend from Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers are finalizing a deal to hire Brian Angelichio as their OC, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday, per sources. The club has since announced the news.<\/p>\n<p>Angelichio, 53, spent the last four seasons as the Minnesota Vikings&#8217; passing game coordinator and tight ends coach. He previously coached under McCarthy, now the Steelers&#8217; head coach, and with quarterback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/aaron-rodgers\/\" title=\"Aaron Rodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> in Green Bay from 2016-18, serving as a tight ends coach. Angelichio will be familiar with the environs in Pittsburgh, as well, as he served as TEs coach for the collegiate Panthers from 2006-2010 under Dave Wannstedt.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Pittsburgh is hiring former Commanders defensive coordinator Joe Whitt Jr. as assistant head coach\/secondary coach, Pelissero reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike McCarthy&#8217;s new offensive coordinator is an old friend from Green Bay. The Pittsburgh Steelers are finalizing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3265,139,3266,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-105521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105521","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=105521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}