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Mike Tomlin has announced continuing with the Pittsburgh Steelers as their head coach.

The National Football League’s (NFL) longest-tenured coach has informed his team he will be returning for the 2024 season as his contract was set to expire in a year, USA Today reported.

This will be Tomlin’s 18th season with the Steelers.

The Steelers’ wild-card round loss to the Buffalo Bills knocked them from the NFL playoffs. Tomlin was questioned about having just one year remaining on his contract after the game, but he left as the reporter was asking him.

In his 17 seasons with the Steelers, Tomlin has seen consistent success; perhaps most significantly, he has never finished with a losing regular-season record. Tomlin is 173-100-2 in the regular season, with two Super Bowl bids, one Super Bowl championship, and 11 postseason appearances since taking over as head coach in 2007.

The Steelers have lost their past four playoff games, however, with the franchise’s last postseason win coming in the 2016 divisional round. Frustration has boiled over, with running back Najee Harris saying after Monday’s loss that there needs to be in-house changes to the team for the group to succeed.

“I don’t want to play for anyone other than Mike T,” star pass-rusher Trent Jordan Watt said. “You can see in the way I talk about him, how much I respect and appreciate him as a coach, as a man, as a leader. That’s my endorsement for him.

When there are teams listed as potential landing spots to trade the Chicago Bears for Justin Fields, one of the first teams that gets brought up is the Pittsburgh Steelers. It is hard to find a team that is a better fit on paper. Why are the Steelers the best fit for Justin Fields?

Are the Pittsburgh Steelers the favorites to land Justin Fields this offseason?

First, they obviously need a quarterback. They benched their former first-round pick Kenny Pickett in a playoff game in favor of Mason Rudolph. That does not scream confidence in Pickett. Rudolph is a free agent, but just like Joshua Dobbs, Jake Browning, or any of these backup quarterbacks, his charm that led the Steelers to a 3-1 finish will wear off.

So, what do the Steelers do? They have to be interested in the quarterback. Before the 2021 NFL draft, Mike Tomlin was seen chatting up Fields and showing serious interest in the prospect who did not fall into their range. Now, they hired Arthur Smith, who many link to Fields after the success he has made from Marcus Mariota. Between Tomlin and Smith, we know that the Steelers will lean run heavy, regardless of the quarterback, but adding the mobility of Fields to upgrade from Pickett would be a great fit.