The last time NBC broadcast the Super Bowl, Aaron Donald effectively ended the game by pressuring Joe Burrow on fourth-and-1 to force an incompletion and a turnover on downs, sealing the Rams’ victory.
With the big game airing on NBC again on Sunday, Donald will again be featured — but this time before kickoff.
NBC Sports announced on Wednesday that Donald, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan, 49ers linebacker Fred Warner, and Steelers defensive tackle Cam Heyward will all be featured as guest pregame analysts for the network’s broadcast of Super Bowl LX.
The Super Bowl LX Pregame Show airs this Sunday at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Coverage begins at Noon ET with Road to the Super Bowl.
Maria Taylor serves as the lead host for the pregame show, joined by co-hosts Jac Collinsworth and Noah Eagle. Analysts include Super Bowl champions Tony Dungy, Jason Garrett, Rodney Harrison, and Devin McCourty, as well as former NFL quarterback Chris Simms. PFT’s Mike Florio, NBC News’ Steve Kornacki, NBC Sports fantasy football analyst Matthew Berry, and Access Hollywood’s Kit Hoover round out the pregame team.
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Brian Angelichio is close to an agreement with the Steelers to become their offensive coordinator, Mark Kaboly of The Pat McAfee Show reports.
Angelichio will become the Steelers’ fourth different offensive coordinator in four seasons. Head coach Mike McCarthy, though, has already said he will call the plays.
Angelichio has spent the past four seasons as the Vikings’ passing game coordinator and tight ends coach under Kevin O’Connell.
He worked with the Packers under McCarthy from 2016-18, as the tight ends coach. Aaron Rodgers was the team’s quarterback.
Angelichio also coached tight ends with the Panthers, Bucs, Browns and Commanders.
The Steelers also interviewed Cowboys tight ends coach Lunda Wells and Saints quarterbacks coach Scott Tolzien.
From the moment Lions fan Ryan Kennedy hired counsel in the aftermath of his in-game altercation with Steelers receiver DK Metcalf, it was obvious this was coming.
Kennedy has sued Metcalf and various others, via Christian Romo of USA Today. The lawsuit focused on the alleged assault — and on the statements made about Kennedy following the December 21 incident.
The civil action, filed on Tuesday, targets Metcalf, the Steelers, and Ford Field management in connection with the assault. Metcalf, Shannon Sharpe, Chad Johnson, and Shay Shay Media were sued for defamation.
Johnson said during an episode of the Nightcap podcast that Kennedy provoked Metcalf by using a racial slur, and by using a misogynistic term in reference to Metcalf’s mother.
“The statements were false and reckless,” the lawsuit alleges. “Plaintiff Kennedy did not call Defendant Metcalf the ‘N-word'; did not call Defendant Metcalf mother a ‘c---'; and did not ever use any racial slurs or hate speech whatsoever. . . . Defendant Metcalf provided false information to Defendant Johnson about what Plaintiff Kennedy allegedly said, thereby instigating and authorizing the publication of the defamatory and reckless statements which were intended to harm Plaintiff Kennedy.”
Kennedy seeks $100 million in damages, along with a “full public retraction and correction of defamatory statements” from Johnson and Sharpe.
One offensive assistant coach is headed to a different AFC North squad.
Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, Eddie Faulkner is set to become Baltimore’s running backs coach.
Faulkner, 48, had been with the Steelers as running backs coach since 2019. He also served as the club’s interim offensive coordinator in 2023 after Matt Canada was fired midway through the season.
While the Ravens will be Faulkner’s second stop in the pros as a coach, he’s also spent time as an offensive assistant at the college level with Ball State, Northern Illinois, Pitt, Wisconsin, and NC State.
Scott Tolzien will not be the Steelers’ next offensive coordinator.
While Tolzien interviewed for the position on Monday, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports that Tolzien will stick with the Saints as their quarterbacks coach in 2026.
Tolzien, 38, played under McCarthy as a backup quarterback for the Packers from 2013-2015. Tolzien then coached under McCarthy with the Cowboys from 2020-2024, first as a coaching assistant and then as the team’s QBs coach for his last two seasons there.
In 2025, Tolzien worked with rookie Tyler Shough, helping him finish the season having completed 67.6 percent of his passes for 2,384 yards with 10 touchdowns and six interceptions in 11 games with nine starts.
Now Tolzien will continue to work with Shough to further his development.
The Cowboys want to keep George Pickens, and the Pro Bowl wide receiver wants to remain in Dallas. The team has the franchise tag available to use on the pending free agent, but the question is whether the sides can negotiate a long-term deal.
Pickens said he is “willing to do anything” when asked his thoughts on the franchise tag, but he makes clear his belief that his value increased after his career year. He caught 93 passes for 1,429 yards and nine touchdowns.
“I feel like, if anything, it went up,” Pickens said, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. “But me personally, my value is just a playmaker-type-of guy. I feel like any team or wherever I play — I can be playing in Canada — I just want them to know that I’m definitely a playmaker.”
The Cowboys traded with the Steelers for Pickens in the 2025 offseason. Dak Prescott is the best quarterback Pickens has played with, and it showed. His previous best season was 63 receptions for 1,140 yards and five touchdowns in 2023.
All things being equal, Pickens wants to remain in Dallas.
“I would love to,” Pickens said. “But when you can’t control it, you kind of just hope for the best.”
In other words, football is a business.
“Just the ultimate best deal when it helps everybody,” Pickens said. “If it’s the best thing for both parties, then I’m willing to do anything. But like I said, I can’t control it, so I just kind of chill.”
Jahri Evans will find out later this week if he has been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but he’ll have a new job for the 2026 season either way.
The Steelers announced that the longtime Saints guard has been hired as their assistant offensive line coach. Evans held the same job for the Saints in 2025 and he played his final NFL season for Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy when McCarthy was the Packers’ head coach in 2017.
Evans was one of five coaching additions announced on Monday afternoon. The Steelers confirmed their reported additions of offensive line coach James Campen and wide receivers coach Adam Henry while also hiring running backs coach Ramon Chinyoung. They also announced that they will retain quarterbacks coach Tom Arth.
Chinyoung was the Cowboys’ assistant offensive line coach in 2025 and he was on McCarthy’s staff in Dallas the previous two seasons. Arth is heading into his third season with the Steelers.
The Steelers are interviewing offensive coordinator candidate Scott Tolzien on Monday and they also officially added three other coaches to Mike McCarthy’s staff.
They have hired defensive pass game coordinator/defensive backs coach Jason Simmons and chief of staff Steve Scarnecchia. They also retained inside linebackers coach Scott McCurley from their 2025 staff.
Simmons played for the Steelers and coached under McCarthy with the Packers, so he’s familiar with both his boss and the surroundings in Pittsburgh. He was the defensive pass game coordinator for Washington the last two seasons.
McCurley was on McCarthy’s staffs in both Green Bay and Dallas before joining the Steelers for Mike Tomlin’s final season on their sideline. Scarnecchia had the same role with the Falcons and Jets in recent seasons.
The Steelers could take a step toward filling a crucial spot on Mike McCarthy’s coaching staff on Monday.
Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that they will interview Saints quarterbacks coach Scott Tolzien for the offensive coordinator spot on McCarthy’s staff. Word of their interest in Tolzien first surfaced last week.
Tolzien joined the Saints last year and spent the previous five seasons working with McCarthy in Dallas. He was the quarterbacks coach for the final two seasons as McCarthy’s run as the Cowboys’ head coach.
McCarthy also coached Tolzien when he was a quarterback for the Packers from 2013-2015, so landing the Steelers job would continue a long-running relationship between the two men.
The Steelers have found a new special teams coordinator.
Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, Pittsburgh is expected to hire Danny Crossman for the role.
Crossman, 59, is a longtime special teams coach. After coaching at the college level for several years, he made his way to the pros as a Panthers special teams assistant in 2003. He’s since served as special teams coordinator for Carolina, Detroit, Buffalo, and Miami.
Crossman will replace Danny Smith, who left the organization this offseason to work for the Buccaneers.
