Colbert’s deal comes two days after the Steelers reached a two-year extension with head coach Mike Tomlin that goes through the 2018 season.
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Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin will be staying in town at least for a few more years after the team extended his contract through 2018.
The extension is until 2018 but Tomlin continues just to be focused on the 2015 season. “We are excited Kevin will continue to lead our personnel department for at least the next three years”, said Steelers’ President Art Rooney II. NFL.com noted that the team has only had a total of three head coaches including Tomlin, since 1969. Tomlin was a defensive backs coach at Tampa Bay from 2001 to 2005 before becoming the Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator in 2006, his last job before replacing Cowher in Pittsburgh.
Though the team did not disclose financial terms, this deal could place Tomlin among the league’s highest-paid coaches based on his tenure and accomplishments, including the cachet of Tomlin’s two Super Bowl berths and his guidance of a 2015 team expected to contend. He returned to the Super Bowl stage two years later against the Packers, but lost to Mike McCarthy’s team.
Colbert, 58, joined the Steelers in 2000 as director of football operations – a position he held for 11 years before becoming GM.
In addition, The Steelers hired Chuck Noll in 1969 and he remained head coach until 1991.
The Steelers report for training camp at Saint Vincent College on Saturday and open the preseason in the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio on August 9.
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Tomlin will look to lead the Steelers back to the playoffs again this season, in hopes of bringing the Vince Lombardi Trophy back to Pittsburgh for the seventh time in NFL history.
