The Pittsburgh Steelers lost assistant wide receivers Blaine Stewart earlier this offseason, as the former James Madison and University of Charleston wide receiver went to the college ranks to take a job as tight ends coach at West Virginia University, where his father, Bill, served as the head coach from 2008-2010. In his press conference today, current West Virginia head coach Neal Brown shot down any talk that the younger Stewart’s hiring had anything to do with his father and credited Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin for developing Stewart.
“Now, I want be real clear about this, Blaine didn’t get hired cause his dad was a head coach here,” Brown said via the WVUSports YouTube channel.