The Pittsburgh Steelers announced the hiring of Anthony Midget, who has a connection to head coach Mike Tomlin, as their new assistant secondary coach Wednesday morning. He succeeds Gerald Alexander, who took the Las Vegas Raiders’ safeties coaching position this offseason.
Midget has spent nine seasons in the NFL as a defensive backs coach. From 2014-17, Midget served as the assistant secondary coach with the Houston Texans and then the secondary coach for 2018 and 2019 with the Texans.
Then, Midget was hired by the Tennessee Titans as defensive backs coach, a role he held from 2020 through 2022. He was fired on Jan. 9, 2023, by the Titans and then-head coach Mike Vrabel and was out of the NFL for a year, serving in a support role at Florida State for the 2023 season.
Prior to his time in the NFL, Midget coached at the collegiate level from 2007-13 with stops at Virginia Tech as a graduate assistant in 2007, Georgia State as a special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach from 2008-11, Georgia State as a defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach in 2012, and then Penn State as a safeties coach in 2013 before making the jump to the NFL.
Midget played college football at Virginia Tech and was a fifth-round pick of the Atlanta Falcons in 2000. He spent part of the 2000 season with the Falcons and then part of the 2000 and 2001 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the practice squad. During that time, Tomlin was the defensive backs coach in Tampa Bay.
Prior to entering the NFL, Midget was a three-year starter for the Hokies in the Big East, earning third-team All-American honors in 1999 along with first-team All-Big East honors that season.
