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Report: Steelers hiring Raiders safeties coach as new DB coach

The Steelers have reportedly added their first new coach of the season.

Per NFL Network’s Cameron Wolfe, the Steelers are hiring Raiders safeties coach Gerald Alexander to be the team’s new defensive backs coach.

Steelers are hiring Gerald Alexander as their new DB coach, per source.

Alexander is a smart, rising coach who spent last season as Raiders safeties coach. Now takes over Pitt secondary. pic.twitter.com/LMYDkB0Ygr— Cameron Wolfe (@CameronWolfe) February 8, 2025

Alexander will be a familiar name to Steelers fans — he previously spent the 2022-23 seasons in Pittsburgh as the assistant defensive backs coach.