{"id":245823,"date":"2026-05-29T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/latest-report-reveals-why-steelers-abruptly-fired-an-assistant-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:11:59","slug":"latest-report-reveals-why-steelers-abruptly-fired-an-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/latest-report-reveals-why-steelers-abruptly-fired-an-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest report reveals why Steelers abruptly fired an assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh_steelers\/44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> fired a recently hired coach from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/mike_mccarthy\/690377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike McCarthy<\/a>&#8216;s staff, the reasoning for the surprising and abrupt dismissal has come out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Steelers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/steelers_senior_special_teams_coach_derius_swinton_part_ways\/s1_14819_43896708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relieved<\/a> special teams assistant Derius Swinton of his duties because of a violation of team policy, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Derius Swinton&#8217;s firing is reportedly due to &#8220;workplace misconduct&#8221;\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>While the franchise declined to go into detail or offer more information at this time, ESPN has also learned through sources that the violation is due to what&#8217;s being labeled as &#8220;workplace misconduct.&#8221; It is unclear which type of misconduct Swinton may have been involved in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Swinton, who was initially hired on Feb. 5 to serve under new special teams coordinator Danny Crossman, declined ESPN&#8217;s request for comment. But the firing in the middle of OTAs suggested an infraction beyond football was at play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/articles\/latest_report_reveals_why_steelers_abruptly_fired_an_assistant_coach\/s1_13132_43897110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after the Pittsburgh Steelers fired a recently hired coach from Mike McCarthy&#8216;s staff, the reasoning for the surprising and abrupt dismissal has come out.\u00a0 On Friday, the Steelers relieved special teams assistant Derius Swinton of his duties because of a violation of team policy, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter.\u00a0 Derius Swinton&#8217;s firing is reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}