Teryl Austin is one of multiple new hires, additions that the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike Tomlin have made to the coaching staff. Austin is, however, the only one of those additions for which was created a new role, officially being named a senior defensive assistant with a specialty in the defensive backfield. All of the other hires were merely replacements for existing roles.
Austin’s role is in part the expansion of the coaching staff for the defensive backs, as he is now working with Tom Bradley, formally the defensive backs coach, who was a first-year hire in 2018, his first job at the NFL level after spending decades coaching in college.