When Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin promoted Randy Fichtner to offensive coordinator, it left a void in the coaching staff. Prior to his promotion, Fichtner had been the team’s quarterbacks coach from 2010-2017. But from 2018 on, Fichtner has tried to fill both roles. However, according to Tomlin, he isn’t opposed to added a dedicated quarterbacks coach for next season.
Doing both was a fairly simple task when it comes to Ben Roethlisberger. It wasn’t like it takes a lot of coaching to keep a future Hall of Fame quarterback on track.
But this season, when Roethlisberger went down with an elbow injury, the whole depth chart fell apart. Despite some flahses, Mason Rudolph didn’t look ready to step into the starting job and once he was injured/benched, Devlin Hodges was lost.
With the clock ticking on Roethlisberger’s career, Pittsburgh must bring in someone to groom the team’s next starting quarterback. Whether or not they are already on the roster is a question for another day.
