The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on Tuesday that they have signed head coach Mike Tomlin to a three-year contract extension and that news prompted a huge response on social media from both current and former players of his. The evidence of that response can be seen below.
Tomlin has long been regarded as a player’s coach. Way back in 2012, a poll of 103 players from 27 teams that was conducted by correspondents from the Sporting News and players overwhelmingly voted Tomlin as the coach that they would most like to play for. In that poll, Tomlin received 31 votes and that was 21 more than New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who finished second in the poll with 10 votes.