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🏈 Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd spoke on the 19-year career of Mike Tomlin as the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach.
“Coach Tomlin is the blueprint of success,” Kidd said. “All of us as coaches would love to have that record and that influence on young men.”
Tomlin never had a losing season in his 19 years as the Steelers’ head coach, which is an NFL record for a coach to start his career.
Kidd was blown away by Tomlin’s leadership when he visited training camp in 2024.
“To be able to spend time with him at training camp — I had never seen anything like that,” Kidd said. “The impact of past players on the present is incredible. For the Steelers, they lose an incredible leader. He’s the definition of the blueprint for us as coaches.
“There is a time when mentally or physically you might need a break,” Kidd added. “I don’t know that about Coach Tomlin — I think he could do it until he’s 100. He loves teaching, leadership, competition. I hope this is just a short break and he’s back soon. We need leaders like that to stay in the game and help our younger men and women become better.”
Jason Kidd spoke on the 19-year career of Mike Tomlin, former Steelers Head Coach saying,
“He is the definition of a blueprint to us as coaches.” pic.twitter.com/dWFZtG8U8L
— Abby Jones (@_abigaiiiil) January 15, 2026
🏈 Former Steelers scout and Hall of Famer Bill Nunn was named as a pioneer nominee for the Black Sportswriters Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
Nunn, who worked for the Steelers from 1967-2014 in a number of roles, became the first African-American enshrined as a contributor in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Nunn, who died in 2014, was a key figure in the Steelers’ success in the 1970s and helped revolutionize the scouting process for players at historically black colleges and universities, that had been previously underrepresented in the NFL. He was voted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2021 in February.
A Homewood native, Nunn attended Westinghouse High School and played basketball West Virginia State College before moving on to a career in journalism with the Pittsburgh Courier, where he was a sportswriter, sports editor and eventually managing editor of what was at the time one of the most influential black publications in the country.
In 1969, thanks to Nunn’s scouting, the Steelers struck gold by landing defensive end L.C. Greenwood out of Arkansas Pine-Bluff in the 10th round of the NFL Draft. In 1970, they look Mel Blount out of Southern in the third round. In 1972, they got Ernie Holmes from Texas Southern in the eighth round and in 1974, in one of the best draft classes in NFL history, the Steelers took John Stallworth from Alabama A&M in the fourth round and...
