{"id":97607,"date":"2026-01-27T01:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:40:18","slug":"first-steelers-defensive-coordinator-candidate-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97607\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steelers Defensive Coordinator Candidate Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steelers News<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"PittsburghPatrick Graham at NY Football Giants Training Camp in 2016. — Tom Hanny\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

With their next head coach in place, the Pittsburgh Steelers now have to fill out a staff of assistants under Mike McCarthy<\/a>. An experienced coach has emerged as his possible defensive coordinator.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeen hearing former Giants and Raider DC Patrick Graham\u2019s name as a possible defensive coordinator for Mike McCarthy in Pittsburgh,\u201d Giants reporter Art Stapleton wrote<\/a> Monday morning on X. \u201cGraham was with McCarthy in Green Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham, 47,\u00a0 spent the last four seasons as the Las Vegas Raiders\u2019 defensive coordinator. He held the same role for the Giants from 2020-21 and the Miami Dolphins in 2019. He was the linebackers coach\/defensive run game coordinator under McCarthy with the Packers in 2018 after working as a defensive line coach with the Giants from 2016-17.<\/p>\n

\"Patrick<\/p>\n

Graham began his coaching career by learning from Bill Belichick from 2009-15, as a coaching assistant, defensive assistant, defensive line coach and linebackers coach.<\/p>\n

Other coaches Graham has worked for are Pete Carroll, Brian Flores, Joe Judge, Ben McAdoo, Josh McDaniels and Antonio Pierce.<\/p>\n

With Graham running the show, the Raiders ranked No. 19 in yards allowed and passing yards allowed, No. 24 in takeaways and No. 16 in rushing yards allowed.<\/p>\n

Teryl Austin had served as the Steelers\u2019 defensive coordinator for the past four seasons. This time around, Pittsburgh ranked No. 7 in yards allowed, No. 4 in passing yards allowed and takeaways and No. 20 in rushing yards allowed. Austin talked to the Washington Commanders about their defensive coordinator opening last week.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned In This Article: Bill Belichick<\/a> Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> Mike McCarthy<\/a> New York Giants<\/a> Patrick Graham<\/a> Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> Steelers<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers News Patrick Graham at NY Football Giants Training Camp in 2016. — Tom Hanny With their next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45060,6548,8203,10353,47878,73,75,74,1833,1829],"class_list":["post-97607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-bill-belichick","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-mike-mccarthy","tag-new-york-giants","tag-patrick-graham","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97607","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=97607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}