With the Pittsburgh Steelers recently announcing the hiring of Adrian Klemm as assistant offensive line coach, a man who has never worked as a coach at this level despite having play in the NFL, it got me to thinking about Mike Tomlin’s previous hires. One thing is clear, and that is that he has never been afraid of hiring based on NFL experience.
Take Eddie Faulkner for example, whom he just hired to replace veteran NFL running backs coach James Saxon this offseason. Faulkner has never worked in the NFL before as a coach, though he was once signed by the Steelers in 2001 as an undrafted free agent.