Former Steelers coach Mike Tomlin reportedly to join NBC’s ‘Sunday Night Football’ pregame show

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Mike Tomlin appears to have his first post-coaching gig lined up.

After 19 seasons coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin will be joining NBC’s “Football Night in America” this fall as a studio analyst. He’ll be providing commentary on the pregame show for “Sunday Night Football.”

NBC Sports has not announced the move and a spokesperson declined to comment for this article.

I was really surprised to hear that Tony Dungy wasn’t coming back to NBC’s football coverage after so many years – seventeen, to be exact! Apparently, NBC let him know last month. Now it looks like Mike Tomlin will be taking his place, which is a big change for the show.

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The Pittsburgh Steelers always had a winning record while he was their coach. What more needs to be said to demonstrate how great he was?

Mike Tomlin played wide receiver at William & Mary and was the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings. In January 2007, the Steelers hired him at the young age of 34.

He joined an exclusive group of Pittsburgh coaches, becoming the third in a row to lead the team for at least 15 years and win a Super Bowl. He followed Chuck Noll, who coached from 1969 to 1991 and won four Super Bowls (IX, X, XIII, and XIV), and Bill Cowher, who coached from 1992 to 2006 and won Super Bowl XL.

After just two seasons, Ben Roethlisberger, known as Tomlin’s quarterback, secured his first Super Bowl win, leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 21-10 victory against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIII.

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In Super Bowl XLV, two years after their previous appearance, the Pittsburgh Steelers were defeated by the Green Bay Packers. That Packers team was led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers and coach Mike McCarthy – interestingly, Rodgers and McCarthy both have ties to the Steelers, as Rodgers was with the team during Mike Tomlin’s first year as head coach, and McCarthy later became the Steelers’ coach.

Despite consistently avoiding losing seasons with the Steelers, coach Tomlin hadn’t led the team to a playoff win since 2016. In 2025, Pittsburgh finished with a 10-7 record and won their division, but they were defeated by the Houston Texans 30-6 in the first round of the playoffs. The following day, he told team president Art Rooney II that he planned to resign.

Tomlin had a 193-114-2 record in the regular season and went 8-12 in the playoffs.

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2026-04-22 19:31