Last week, we noted the unsurprising reality that Mike Tomlin called defensive plays during Keith Butler’s tenure as DC, spanning from 2015 through 2021. Butler made another revelation Monday, a more surprising one, telling 93. The Fan Tomlin began handling defensive playcalling duties during Dick LeBeau’s final few years too.
Butler joined The Fan’s Andrew Fillipponi and NFL Network’s Aditi Kinkhabwala to talk about Tomlin’s influence and role on the Steelers’ defense.
“The last couple years of Dick LeBeau, Mike was calling defenses here too,” he told the show Monday. “It’s something that he wanted to do.