It’s not often that the Pittsburgh Steelers choose to add a new coaching position to their staff, but that is what they did recently with the hiring of Teryl Austin, who is officially being given the title of ‘senior defensive assistant’ with an emphasis on the secondary.
Austin, 53, has spent the bulk of his career working with defensive backs—he was a defensive back himself for Pitt—and even worked with defensive backs coach Tom Bradley while he was a graduate assistant at Penn State in the early 1990s. Bradley was the outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at that time.