Mike Tomlin will not be traded by the Steelers in exchange for …..

Mike Tomlin will not be traded by the Steelers in exchange for …..

It is not a realistic expectation for another professional football franchise,

one composed of an armada of experts in business and football operations, to trade

prime draft capital for a head coach who has one year remaining on his contract. I think we can safely kill this narrative

and bury it deep. The Steelers are not going to trade Mike Tomlin for a first-round draft pick, largely because no

team is going to offer the Steelers a first-round draft pick in exchange for Mike Tomlin.

I believe we can safely put an end to this story and bury it deep. For the most part, because no team will give the Steelers a

first-round draft pick in exchange for Mike Tomlin, the team will not trade Tomlin for one.

Trades for head coaches are extremely rare (this page details about a half-dozen such trades over the last 25ish years),

and when they do occur, there’s usually some sort of special circumstance that

justifies such a big swing. I wrote about this in a bit more detail in the last Sound-Off column. T