It\u2019s currently team captain season, with plenty of NFL franchises unveiling plenty of season-long captains. In Pittsburgh, however, there won\u2019t be a tweet with anywhere from five to 11 players listed as those who will be wearing a \u201cC\u201d in 2026.<\/p>\n
New coach Mike McCarthy told reporters on Monday that he won\u2019t use full-season captains<\/a>. Instead, he\u2019ll name captains for each week\u2019s game<\/a>. That\u2019s how McCarthy handled the captain designations while serving as the head coach of the Packers and the Cowboys.<\/p>\n The approach is a clear departure from past practices under Mike Tomlin, and another clear sign that some things will be very different with one Mike yielding to another.<\/p>\n Last year, the Steelers had four permanent captains: quarterback Aaron Rodgers, defensive lineman Cameron Heyward, linebacker T.J. Watt, and safety Miles Killebrew. (After Killebrew was lost for the season due to injury, linebacker Payton Wilson replaced Killebrew as the special-teams captain.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s currently team captain season, with plenty of NFL franchises unveiling plenty of season-long captains. In Pittsburgh, however,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-281402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281402","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=281402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}