Mike Tomlin to continue as Pittsburgh Steeler's head coach

Mike Tomlin has announced continuing with the Pittsburgh Steelers as their head coach. 

The National Football League’s (NFL) longest-tenured coach has informed his team he will be returning for the 2024 season as his contract was set to expire in a year, USA Today reported.

This will be Tomlin’s 18th season with the Steelers.

The Steelers' wild-card round loss to the Buffalo Bills knocked them from the NFL playoffs. Tomlin was questioned about having just one year remaining on his contract after the game, but he left as the reporter was asking him.

In his 17 seasons with the Steelers, Tomlin has seen consistent success; perhaps most significantly, he has never finished with a losing regular-season record. Tomlin is 173-100-2 in the regular season, with two Super Bowl bids, one Super Bowl championship, and 11 postseason appearances since taking over as head coach in 2007.

The Steelers have lost their past four playoff games, however, with the franchise's last postseason win coming in the 2016 divisional round. Frustration has boiled over, with running back Najee Harris saying after Monday's loss that there needs to be in-house changes to the team for the group to succeed.

"I don't want to play for anyone other than Mike T," star pass-rusher Trent Jordan Watt said. "You can see in the way I talk about him, how much I respect and appreciate him as a coach, as a man, as a leader. That's my endorsement for him."