Skip to main content

Bill Nunn | Pittsburgh Steelers - Steelers.com

person-header_nunn_bill
Table inside Article
PERSONAL INFORMATION
College West Virginia State College
Table inside Article
CAREER HISTORY
1968 - 2014 Scout, Assistant Director Player Personnel and Senior Scout, Pittsburgh Steelers
Table inside Article
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV, XL, XLIII
Hall of Honor 2018
Hall of Fame 2021

Bill Nunn was inducted into the Steelers Hall of Honor as a member of the Class of 2018.

Before accepting Dan Rooney's job offer in 1968, Bill Nunn was a newspaper guy – first a sports writer, then the sports editor, then the managing editor of The Pittsburgh Courier during an era when it was one of the most influential black publications in America. Starting in 1950, Nunn personally selected the annual Black College All-America Football Team for The Pittsburgh Courier, and in the course of performing that duty he developed relationships with players and coaches at those colleges that would serve him well during his career in the NFL. Before the rest of the league caught on to the wealth of talent available in the programs at the Historically Black Colleges, Nunn helped the Steelers add many players who would go on to fill integral roles in the four Super Bowl championship teams of the 1970s. Included among those were L.C. Greenwood from Arkansas AM&N, Mel Blount from Southern, Frank Lewis from Grambling State, Dwight White from Texas A&M-Commerce, Ernie Holmes from Texas Southern, Joe Gilliam from Tennessee State, John Stallworth from Alabama A&M, and Donnie Shell from South Carolina State. For his decades of service, Nunn was enshrined as a member of the Inaugural Class of the Black College Football Hall of Fame.