{"id":672702,"date":"2026-05-29T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672702\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:08:09","slug":"report-steelers-dismiss-senior-assistant-st-coach-derius-swinton-for-violating-team-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/672702\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Steelers dismiss senior assistant ST coach Derius Swinton for violating team policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers hired Derius Swinton as a senior assistant special teams coach this offseason, but he won\u2019t be with the team for the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p>Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Swinton <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/2060383608586535066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has been dismissed<\/a> for a violation of team policy. The nature of the violation is not known. <\/p>\n<p>Swinton spent the last three seasons as an assistant special teams coach for the Raiders and he finished out last season as their interim special teams coordinator. He has been a coordinator with the 49ers and Chargers during an NFL coaching career that has featured stints with 10 different teams. <\/p>\n<p>Danny Crossman is the special teams coordinator on head coach Mike McCarthy\u2019s staff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers hired Derius Swinton as a senior assistant special teams coach this offseason, but he won\u2019t be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-672702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}