Steelers Lost Member Of Their Offensive Coaching Staff To The Collegiate Level Just One Day After Playoff Loss

The Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff is expected to look a lot different for the 2024 season. Regardless of whether or not Head Coach Mike Tomlin stays with the team, the Steelers will likely be looking for a new offensive coordinator and some new coaches for their offensive staff. They now have a vacancy in one of their offensive assistant roles, as they lost Glenn Thomas to the collegiate level. He plans to coach the quarterbacks at Nebraska. 

Steelers Losing Glenn Thomas To Nebraska

The Steelers hired Thomas shortly before the 2023 NFL Draft to be an offensive assistant. He stayed with the team throughout the entire 2023 season, but has accepted a job with Nebraska just one day after the team's playoff loss to the Buffalo Bills. He will be joining former NFL Head Coach Matt Rhule's coaching staff with the Cornhuskers, and the two have experience with each other as Thomas worked under Rhule at both Baylor and Temple. The news of Thomas leaving Pittsburgh to head back to the collegiate level was originally broke by The Athletic's Mitch Sherman.

"Nebraska is hiring Glenn Thomas from the Pittsburgh Steelers to coach quarterbacks. Thomas coached with Matt Rhule at Baylor and Temple and coordinated the offense at Arizona State in 2022."

This past year with the Steelers was Thomas' second stint in the NFL. He was a member of the Atlanta Falcons from 2008 through 2014, and served as both an offensive assistant and their quarterbacks coach. When the Steelers hired him prior to the 2023 season, he had last worked as the offensive coordinator at Arizona State. 

Thomas found himself with an important job for the Steelers during the 2023 season. When former Offensive Coordinator Matt Canada was told to move down to the sideline during games rather than sitting in the booth, Thomas took his spot in the booth. He was the offense's eyes and ears from above and was responsible to communicate what they saw from the defense from the booth to the offensive staff on the sideline. He was crucial in noticing defensive personnel, substitutions, and what he was seeing from different offensive schemes. 

The Steelers will certainly miss Thomas, but it's good he found a new job before the offensive staff likely gets overhauled as the organization looks to find a new offensive coordinator. What do you think about him taking a job at the collegiate level? Let us know in the comments below!

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