You often hear stories about young coaches sleeping in the facilities of their respective teams, grinding away the days and hours trying to make it in the NFL.
Family lives get put on hold. Relationships too, sometimes. Being an NFL coach, especially a position coach or even a low-level assistant on a staff can be a thankless job that takes a toll.
What you don’t often hear about is longtime NFL head coaches putting in those same hours. But, according to veteran quarterback Mason Rudolph, that’s what Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin often does after long road trips that cause the Steelers to return to town late.