(File Photo: Source for Photo:  Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy walks on the field following an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 in Arlington, Texas. The Commanders won 23-19. (AP Photo/Gareth Patterson)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Sources are telling ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the Pittsburgh Steelers are planning to hire Pittsburgh native Mike McCarthy as their next head coach. McCarthy will succeed Mike Tomlin, who stepped down as the head coach of the Steelers on January 13th, 2026 after nineteen seasons with the team. McCarthy, a native of Greenfield, was the head coach for the Green Bay Packers when Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers played for the Packers when they won Super Bowl 45 against the Steelers on February 6th, 2011 in Arlington, Texas. McCarthy was the head coach of the Packers from 2006-2018, and then after a hiatus in 2019, he was hired by the Cowboys and coached them from 2020-2024. The sixty-two-year-old McCarthy worked with Steelers general manager Omar Khan in New Orleans in 2000 but he did not coach in the NFL this season. McCarthy will become only the fourth head coach the Steelers have hired since 1969, following in the footsteps of Pro Football Hall of Famers Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher, as well as the aforementioned Mike Tomlin.