Aaron Curry is in his first year as the team's inside linebackers coach and his fifth year coaching in the NFL. He was hired by the Steelers on Feb. 22, 2023.
Curry comes to Pittsburgh after four years in Seattle under various roles with the Seahawks. He started with Seattle in 2019 as a defensive assistant. Curry was then promoted to defensive assistant/linebackers and served in that role for two seasons (2020-21). He was promoted a second time prior to the 2022 season, where he acted as the assistant defensive line/defensive ends coach.
Curry, the 2008 Butkus Award winner out of Wake Forest, was the fourth overall selection by Seattle in the 2009 NFL Draft. He played four seasons in the League (2009-12). Curry saw action in 35 games with the Seahawks (2009-11) and 13 with Oakland (2011-12). He recorded 203 tackles (163 solo), 5.5 sacks, 12 passes defensed, four forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries and two fumble returns for TDs.
Curry began his coaching career in 2013 as a strength and conditioning intern during the University of Charlotte's inaugural season of college football. He moved into a defensive graduate assistant position in 2014 and then coached the defensive line for Charlotte in 2015 and 2016, where he mentored both Larry Ogunjobi and Alex Highsmith – two of the first three players in program history to get drafted into the NFL.
As a senior All-American in 2008, Curry registered 105 tackles and 16.0 tackles for loss enroute to the Butkus Award, given to the nation's top collegiate linebacker, which followed an All-American 2007 campaign in which Curry tied an NCAA record for interceptions returned for TD by a linebacker (three).
