Jason Simmons, a former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back, was among eight additions to Mike McCarthy’s coaching staff announced Monday by the team.
Simmons will serve as defensive pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach. The Steelers also retained Scott McCurley (inside linebackers) and Tom Arth (quarterbacks) and hired James Campen (offensive line), Jahri Evans (assistant offensive line), Ramon Chinyoung Sr. (running backs), Adam Henry (wide receivers) and Steve Scarnecchia (chief of staff).
McCarthy’s staff has started taking shape less than a week after he was introduced as coach.
Simmons, 49, has coached 16 seasons in the NFL and spent the past two as defensive pass game coordinator for the Washington Commanders. He got his coaching start as a defensive assistant with the Green Bay Packers under McCarthy in 2011.
As an NFL player, Simmons was a fifth-round pick of Pittsburgh in 1998 and spent four of his 10 seasons with the Steelers.
McCurley, a Lawrence County native and Mohawk graduate, joined the Steelers’ coaching staff last winter. McCurley previously coached under McCarthy in both Green Bay and Dallas, where he spent five seasons as Cowboys linebackers coach (2020-24).
Arth, 44, is another holdover from Mike Tomlin’s staff, having joined the Steelers in 2024 as quarterbacks coach after a two-year stint with the Chargers. He was previously a college head coach at Akron, Chattanooga and John Carroll.
Campen, 61, spent 15 seasons with the Packers as an assistant coach, a stint that largely overlapped with McCarthy’s time in Green Bay. He’d since spent time coaching the Browns, Chargers, Texans and Panthers before returning to the Packers as a scouting consultant.
Campen played eight NFL seasons for the Saints (1986-88) and Packers (1989-93).
Evans, 42, was a five-time All-Pro offensive lineman for the Saints and a member of the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 2010s. He finished out his playing career with McCarthy and the Packers in 2017 before returning to New Orleans as a coach in 2023.
Chinyoung served the past three seasons as an offensive quality control coach or assistant offensive line coach with the Dallas Cowboys. He spent two of those seasons with McCarthy.
Henry spent the past three seasons as wide receivers coach for the Buffalo Bills but previously had a two-year stint in Dallas with McCarthy.
Scarnecchia has a 16-year NFL career, including five seasons as chief of staff for the Atlanta Falcons (2024-25) and New York Jets (2021-23). His father, Dante, was a longtime assistant for the New England Patriots.
We have named Jason Simmons defensive pass game coordinator/defensive backs, Scott McCurley inside linebackers coach and Steve Scarnecchia chief of staff.
— Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) February 2, 2026
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