{"id":320707,"date":"2026-11-04T03:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320707\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:38:14","slug":"former-steelers-qb-russell-wilson-interviews-for-head-coach-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320707\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers QB Russell Wilson interviews for head coach job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson interviewed for the head coach opening at North Carolina State, per Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cFormer Super Bowl champion QB Russell Wilson interviewed today for the head coaching job at North Carolina State, where he played three seasons,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2117778418477732190\" rel=\"nofollow\">Schefter reports<\/a>. \u201cNC State now has two former NFL greats who starred there, Wilson and Philip Rivers, as prominent head-coaching candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wilson is currently an analyst for CBS Sports on The NFL Today. He joined the Steelers in 2024 after two less-than-memorable years with the Denver Broncos. In one season with the Steelers, Wilson threw 16 touchdowns to five interceptions in 11 games for the Steelers, going 6-5 as a starter before the Steelers lost to the Baltimore Ravens in the wild card round. He then signed with the New York Giants, where he started three games before being benched for Jaxson Dart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wilson was a 10-time Pro Bowl selection, nine of which came from 2012-21 with the Seattle Seahawks, where he won a Super Bowl and went to another. He\u2019s 12th all-time in touchdown passes (353) and sixth all-time in passer rating (99.3).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">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":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson interviewed for the head coach opening at North Carolina State, per Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,4853],"class_list":["post-320707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320707","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=320707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}