Mike McCarthy is adding former Pitt and IUP coordinator Frank Cignetti to his staff, according to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Cignetti was McCarthy's quarterbacks coach in Green Bay in 2018.
Dulac did not specify what role Cignetti will have on McCarthy's offensive staff. Tom Arth was retained as the Steelers ' quarterbacks coach, so it could be a senior offensive assistant type of role.
Frank Cignetti is the younger brother of Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti. The older Cignetti led Indiana to an improbable 16-0 season that concluded with a National Championship title.
Frank Cignetti was the offensive coordinator at IUP last season after serving as Pitt's OC from 2022-2023. Prior to his time at Pitt, he was Boston College's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2020-2021. He served as the Packers ' quarterbacks coach for one season in 2018. Before that, he was the New York Giants quarterbacks coach from 2016-2017 under fellow IUP grad Ben McAdoo.
Cignetti has mostly worked with the quarterbacks throughout his coaching career. He was a graduate assistant at Pitt with McCarthy in 1989.
McCarthy hired several coaches to his staff last week. He has also kept two coaches from Mike Tomlin's staff in Arth and linebackers coach Scott McCurley . McCarthy planned to keep defensive backs coach Gerald Alexander , but he accepted a defensive pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach position with the Minnesota Vikings .
McCarthy has hired a slew of coaches with ties to Pittsburgh, or at the very least a connection with him in past places that he's coached.
This article originally appeared on Steelers Now : Steelers Hire Another Coach with Pittsburgh Ties
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