Three seasons into his Steelers tenure, Adrian Klemm will head back to the college ranks. The team’s offensive line coach will step aside to join Dan Lanning’s staff at Oregon, Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.com tweets.
Oregon pursued Klemm, who joined the Steelers after a decade at the college level, and will force the AFC North franchise to hire a third O-line coach in as many seasons. Klemm will leave Pittsburgh after this season concludes.
One year remained on the 44-year-old assistant’s Steelers deal, and Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette adds the team was not prepared to move on from him (Twitter link). Prior to coming to Pittsburgh, Klemm broke into the coaching ranks at SMU and then spent five seasons at UCLA. The former Bruins associate head coach has been with the Steelers since 2019, rising from assistant O-line coach to overseeing that position group this season.
The Steelers promoted Klemm after axing previous O-line coach Shaun Sarrett in January. The team will continue in search of stability at this post. The Steelers had previously employed one of the league’s top O-line coaches, in Mike Munchak, from 2014-18; Munchak left to become the Broncos’ O-line coach in 2019.
As bad as the Steelers O Line has been, it’s surprising that they even had one. In this instance, change has to be good.
At UCLA he was known to be a fantastic recruiter and knows the So Cal area well. But as a O line “coach” his lines underperformed. But hey Oregon is a great gig kudos to him.
No brainer move for Klemm. I can’t remember a more inept O-line in Pittsburgh over the past 50+ years. They clearly need to spend some money this off season or the drafting of a stud running back was a waste. No way that Najee can take this kind of pounding—in the backfield or meager 2 yard gains—week in and week out, and have a prolonged career. It’s almost painful to watch.
And while they’re at it, maybe they can spend some money to get Munchak back here to coach
No brainer cause he couldn’t coach in the NFL? He has 2 rookies on the line. He can’t even teach his OL to turn around and help their QB they just let get sacked.
That was the point. He wasn’t moving these guys forward
Munch didn’t leave over money…left be be closer to family.
A coach is only as good as his talent.
Bye, bye…bum
Steelers have been fortunate to have guys like Grimm and Munchak as OL coaches. But I think it’s time to bring a Steeler back into the fold and teach these guy the real way to play steelers football
He’s trash good bye!
Faneca?