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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks coach Tom Arth was mentioned as a potential candidate for a high school head coaching job at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleveland 92.3 The Fan Host Anthony Lima shared that Arth has 30/1 odds to be the next head coach at Saint Ignatius.
Neither side has expressed interest, so it’s just speculation. Arth is a Cleveland native and played at Saint Ignatius, however.
🚨🚨🚨Sharps in Vermillion has updated the odds pic.twitter.com/6LfYmhQ80m
— Anthony Lima (@SportsBoyTony) December 10, 2025
Arth, 44, is in his second season as the Steelers’ QBs coach. In 2022 and 2023 he was the pass game specialist for the Los Angeles Chargers, where he helped work with quarterback Justin Herbert. Before that, he had a long tenure as a college head coach.
A college quarterback at Division-III John Carroll near Cleveland, Arth spent three seasons with the Indianapolis Colts as a backup to Peyton Manning and bounced between the NFL Europe, CFL, practice squads and the Arena Football league after that.
He got his start in coaching at his alma mater in 2010 and three years later, was promoted to head coach. With the Blue Streaks, Arth directed records of 9-2, 11-2, 8-2 and 12-2, making it to the NCAA Tournament three times. In 2016, he took John Carroll all the way to the NCAA Semifinals, the best playoff finish in modern team history.
That was a springboard to a job at Tennessee-Chattanooga at the FCS. The Mocs were a middling 9-13 over Arth’s two years there, but he again levied into a promotion to be the head coach at Akron at the FBS level.
The Zips, a historically struggling program, went winless in Arth’s first year and did not get much better, winning one game in 2020 and two in 2021, despite Arth generally being seen as a good hire for the program.
He was fired on Nov. 4, 2021, and hired by the Chargers for the 2022 season to be their pass-game specialist.
After posting passer ratings of 98.3 and 97.7 in his first two years, Herbert regressed in 2022 and 2023, leading to the firing of head coach Brandon Staley.
Alan Saunders Contributed.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now: Steelers QBs Coach Named Candidate for High School HC Position
