Steelers Hire Coach Mike McCarthy Top Cowboys Assistant

It’s a homecoming for Scott McCurley as the Pittsburgh Steelers are hiring McCurley as their new inside linebackers coach. 

McCurley, who is from New Castle and who played college football at Pitt, is set to replace departed inside linebackers coach Aaron Curry. … and he brings with him some very Steel City-related ties.

Among the most notable of those? McCurley, who played linebacker at Pitt from 1999 to 2002, started his NFL coaching career with the Green Bay Packers in 2006 under the supervision of another Pittsburgh guy in Mike McCarthy.

For the last five years McCurley served as linebackers coach for head coach McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys.

McCarthy did not re-up with Dallas and will be sitting out from poaching this year. That fact freed his staffers to move on.

McCurley started with the Pitt Panthers as a 2003 defensive graduate assistant before receiving his first NFL opportunity as a coaching administrator intern with the Packers on McCarthy’s first staff.

McCurley, 44. coached under McCarthy for 18 seasons and this job under Mike Tomlin will mark his first time working with a head coach other than McCarthy.

McCurley has however coached against his hometown team as he was part of the Packers staff that defeated Tomlin and the Steelers in the Super Bowl.