Another season is in the books for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and once again, they didn’t win a playoff game. Despite that lack of success, it doesn’t seem like Mike Tomlin is going anywhere. Multiple teams reportedly called the Steelers about trading for Tomlin, but it sounds like they were shut down. Jim Rooney, son of the late Dan Rooney and brother of current Steelers owner Art Rooney II, doesn’t believe a Tomlin trade will ever be on the table.
“I don’t think that’s realistic,” Rooney said Tuesday on the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. “I don’t know, so I don’t want to get too into the mechanical details of how that even works, but Mike [Tomlin] has said over and over again that he wants to coach the Steelers, and that’s what he wants to do.