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Former Steelers quarterback and University of Colorado legend, Kordell Stewart, will serve as volunteer offensive coordinator at South Forsyth High School in Cummings, Georgia this season under new head coach James Thomson, according to Forsyth Sports.
This will be Stewart’s first coaching position since retiring after an 11-year NFL career, eight of which came with the Steelers.
“I thought this would be a great challenge,” Stewart told Forsyth Sports. “I want to use my experience as a player, like they are now, to now become a coach and take in all of those concepts and ideas and football IQ.”
South Forsyth has struggled over the last two seasons, winning just three games (2-8 in 2024 and 1-9 in 2023). Stewart hopes to help change the culture of the program.
“For me, as a former player, it’s just all about the approach. We have coaches and we have teachers, I like to consider myself a teacher,” Stewart said. “Only three wins out of 20 games. That’s a lot of work that needs to be put in. That’s not to say the kids are not capable, it’s just being able to restructure the mindset. The kids are smart, but we have to translate that over into the intellectual level of being a football player on the football field.
“I just try to take everything that’s inside of me to give them that information in increments. That’s when you start taking your hands off them and let them soar. … I think we have a good enough coaching staff to allow this team to look a little different than what it’s been looking like.”
Kordell Stewart, a University of Colorado legend and longtime quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, will serve as volunteer offensive coordinator at South Forsyth (@SFHS_Football) under new head coach James Thomson. Check out our full feature story: https://t.co/FD3Tga2EXP pic.twitter.com/MnadaxuI5M
— FCN Sports (@ForsythSports) June 15, 2025
Stewart spent time in Pittsburgh from 1995-2002 mostly at quarterback, however, made his name as a versatile player; able to play receiver, running back, and even occasionally punting. He posted a 48-29 record as a quarterback, scoring 110 total touchdowns.
Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Kordell Stewart was ahead of his time in the 1990s. If he played about 15 years later, he would have been utilized a lot better. In today’s game, his dual-threat abilities certainly would flourish.
Stewart was a pioneer of the modern day dual-threat quarterback.
“You know the stubborn side of me says they weren’t ready for me, but I was ready for the game,” Stewart told Rob King of Steelers.com in a recent interview. “That’s the stubborn side, but being that I was kind of like that minority, if you will, figuratively speaking in the sense that not too many were doing it that way, yeah, I was a little ahead of my time. We had two good coaches that could make it work. They understood how to work with my skill set, which was unconventional at...
