Amid all of the many changes the Pittsburgh Steelers have undergone this offseason—they even lost their giant ketchup bottles—one major change hasn’t really been talked about all that much, which is the change at defensive coordinator.
Of course, we know the reason why that is. Most people just assume that it’s head coach Mike Tomlin running the show. But while Keith Butler acknowledged on his way into retirement that Tomlin called most of the plays on game day, there’s still the weekly responsibility of designing and installing the defensive gameplan.
And now that Butler is gone, that job belongs to Teryl Austin, who has been with the team for the past couple of seasons as a senior defensive assistant.