BREAKING: Hines Ward receives a surprise message from Pittsburgh Steelers
On the heels of another change to the Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff, the most successful wide receiver in the franchise’s history, Hines Ward, has been floated as a possible addition to the team’s staff.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gerry Dulac reported on February 5 that the Steelers are parting ways with wide receivers coach Frisman Jackson. He spent the past two seasons on Pittsburgh’s staff as wide receivers coach.
Considering that change, Steelers Warehouse’s Joe Clark referenced Ward as a potential trade for Jackson.
“One name available that will certainly be connected to Pittsburgh is previous Steelers wideout Hines Ward, who was supplanted as lead trainer of the UFL’s San Antonio Brahmas and was a hostile understudy with the Steelers in 2017,” Clark composed. ” In addition, he taught wide receivers at Florida Atlantic University and worked as an offensive assistant for the New York Jets.
AtoZ Sports’ Ransack Gregson likewise drifted Ward as a contender to be Pittsburgh’s next wide collectors mentor.
“The Steelers are continuing on from current WRs mentor Frisman Jackson per Gerry Dulac,” Gregson composed. ” Hines Ward will be a well known contender for his substitution.”
As The Athletic’s Imprint Kaboly composed on X (previously Twitter) on February 2, there most likely will not be “a commotion” to Pittsburgh’s hostile instructing staff. Even with Arthur Smith, the team’s new offensive coordinator, that is likely to be the case.
However, a few changes are not out of the ordinary. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Steelers won’t keep Jackson because of the team’s inconsistent receivers in 2023.
“Jackson was responsible for a wide collector room that saw a flood underway from wide recipient George Pickens in 2023,” Clark composed. ” In any case, both Pickens and wide beneficiary Diontae Johnson showed exertion issues on occasion, which can’t occur from a group’s main two wideouts.”
Before Jackson arrived in Pittsburgh, he coached for three NFL seasons. He trained the Tennessee Titans wide collectors in 2017. Then, at that point, he stood firm on similar foothold with the Carolina Jaguars from 2020-21.
In the middle between, Jackson was the wide beneficiaries mentor at Baylor.
Jackson has seriously training experience at the school level. Starting his training profession in 2008, Jackson instructed wide recipients at Western Illinois, Akron, Northern Illinois, NC State and Sanctuary before 2017.
At Sanctuary, he was likewise the program’s passing game organizer.
Could the Steelers re-sign Hines Ward?
With an opening at wide collectors mentor, the inquiry becomes if a Steelers-Ward gathering is on the table.
Ward has tried his hand at a few different fields since he played in the NFL for 14 years. He filled in as a NBC Sports examiner not long after he resigned. Ward also tried several different ways to enter the restaurant industry.
In 2017, he started his training profession as a hostile colleague for the Steelers. After his associate job with the New York Planes from 2019-20, he was then the wide beneficiaries mentor at Florida Atlantic in 2021.
It’s hard to decide what sort of recipients mentor Ward may be, yet he’s probably going to be an extremely well known decision for the job because of his playing vocation achievement.
Ward stays first in Steelers history with 1,000 gatherings, 12,083 getting yards and 85 scores. In the wake of the 2005 season, he was named MVP of the Super Bowl.
Unexpectedly, the eighteenth commemoration of that game was February 5.
