{"id":193651,"date":"2026-05-15T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:38:17","slug":"mike-tomlin-to-return-to-pittsburgh-in-week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193651\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tomlin to return to Pittsburgh in Week 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steelers.com\/news\/steelers-release-2026-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NFL schedule<\/a>, the Pittsburgh Steelers have a daunting back half of their slate. From Weeks 10-18, eight of the Steelers\u2019 final nine games are against 2025 playoff teams or AFC North opponents who will likely be in the mix for playoff spots in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Among those 2025 playoff teams is the squad that eliminated Pittsburgh in the playoffs this past January, as the Texans will return to Acrisure Stadium in Week 13, and they won\u2019t be the only ones returning to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With Football Night In America traveling each week, former Steelers head coach and new NBC NFL analyst Mike Tomlin will be in the building when the Steelers host the Texans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tomlin stepped down as head coach of the Steelers after 19 seasons following a 30-6 loss in the wild card round to Houston, extending the Steelers\u2019 postseason winless streak to nine seasons.<\/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":"With the release of the 2026 NFL schedule, the Pittsburgh Steelers have a daunting back half of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853,39928],"class_list":["post-193651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193651","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=193651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}