{"id":31612,"date":"2025-11-12T01:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:48:26","slug":"former-pittsburgh-steelers-qb-kordell-stewart-eyeing-head-coach-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31612\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers QB Kordell Stewart eyeing head coach job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart is eyeing a big career move. Per Josina Anderson, the Colorado legend is eyeing the open head coach job at his alma mater\u2019s largest rival, Colorado State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m told former Steelers Ravens [and] Bears QB &amp; Colorado Hall of Famer Kordell \u201cSLASH\u201d Stewart has retained Young Money APAA Sports for his representation as he pursues a collegiate head coaching opportunity, \u201cAnderson reports. \u201dSources say there\u2019s interest in the open Colorado State job, &amp; that Stewart has already assembled a veteran staff of prominent NCAA &amp; NFL coaches.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stewart has a long and complicated history with Colorado dating back to his time as a player. He was one class short of graduating when he entered the NFL Draft due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/cmdinow\/2024\/08\/27\/incompletion-one-slash-was-able-fix#:~:text=A%20costly%20miscommunication,the%20class%20experience%20more%20enjoyable.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miscommunication with a professor<\/a>, which caused him to have to go back and finish his degree. In addition, the university has yet to retire his jersey, despite him being arguably the best quarterback in the school\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stewart won 45 games as the Steelers\u2019 starting quarterback from 1996-2002, earning Pro Bowl honors in 2001 &#8211; the same season in which he helped lead the Steelers to the AFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Be sure to bookmark Behind the Steel Curtain for all the latest news, breakdowns, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart is eyeing a big career move. Per Josina Anderson, the Colorado legend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,9373,4853],"class_list":["post-31612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-history","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612","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=31612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}