The early 1990s Pittsburgh Steelers would have looked a lot different had Bill Cowher gotten his way. According to former NFL quarterback Jim Everett, Cowher wanted to trade for Everett, but the deal never came to fruition and Everett didn’t find out about it until after he retired.
“I was almost a Pittsburgh Steeler. I was almost traded there, but my agent didn’t tell me,” Everett said on Golf Podcast: Next On The Tee. “In 1991, Cowher was trying to trade for me, and I didn’t find out about it until probably ’98 after I retired.