{"id":99464,"date":"2026-01-29T05:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99464\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:40:14","slug":"pittsburgh-steelers-closing-in-on-hiring-heralded-defensive-mind-with-mike-mccarthy-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99464\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers closing in on hiring heralded defensive mind with Mike McCarthy ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> are closing in on hiring Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham<\/a> as their next defensive coordinator, according to Gerry Dulac of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. <\/p>\n

Graham worked under McCarthy in Green Bay as the linebackers coach and run game coordinator in 2018 before being hired by Brian Flores to become his defensive coordinator in 2019.<\/p>\n

After 2019, Graham left Miami and headed to the Giants, where he was their defensive coordinator from 2020 to 2021. Graham then took a leap to Las Vegas, where he has been the Raiders\u2019 defensive coordinator ever since, even being retained across multiple staffs. <\/p>\n

Graham came up in the NFL under Bill Belichick in New England. He first entered the NFL in 2009 as a coaching assistant after being at Toledo as their defensive line coach. <\/p>\n

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He coached the defensive line and linebackers for New England before eventually ascending up the NFL ladder to being the Giants\u2019 defensive line coach in 2016.<\/p>\n

Over his career as a defensive coordinator, there have been mixed results with Graham\u2019s defenses, though the talent across many of the teams he has worked with has fallen flat. <\/p>\n

A graduate of Yale in 2001, Graham played defensive line in college before heading over to the college ranks as a coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers are closing in on hiring Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham as their next defensive coordinator,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8177,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-99464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-american-football","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464","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=99464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}