Mike Tomlin Biography, Age, Family, Siblings, Wife, Kids and Net Worth

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  1. What does Mike Tomlin do for a living?
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  3. What are Mike Tomlin’s interests and hobbies?
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  5. Does Mike Tomlin have any children?
  6. Where is Mike Tomlin now?
  7. How tall is Mike Tomlin?
  8. How much money does Mike Tomlin earn?
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 Who is Mike Tomlin?

Michael Pettaway Tomlin ”Mike Tomlin” is a famous American professional coach who is the head coach. He is currently the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). Tomlin started his coaching profession as a defensive assistant prior to becoming the Steelers’ head coach in 2007.

In his 14 seasons with the Steelers, he has never complied a losing record. He has led the team to nine playoff runs, seven division titles, three American Football Conference (AFC) championship games, two Super Bowl appearances, and also one title in Super Bowl XLIII. Additionally, to date, he is the youngest head coach (age 36 during Super Bowl XLIII) to win the Super Bowl.

Mike Tomlin Coaching career

College football

In 1995, Tomlin started his coaching profession as the wide receiver coach at Virginia Military Institute under head coach Bill Stewart. He spent the 1996 season as a graduate assistant at the University of Memphis, serving with the defensive backs and special teams. After a short time on the University of Tennessee at Martin’s coaching staff, Mike was hired by Arkansas State University to coach its defensive backs in 1997. He spent two seasons there prior to being hired by the University of Cincinnati as defensive backs coach.

A photo of Mike Tomlin
A photo of Mike Tomlin

How old is Mike Tomlin?

Aged 49 as of 2021, Michael Pettaway Tomlin was born on March 15, 1972, in Hampton, Virginia, U.S. He shares his birthday with celebrities including Paul Pogba, Jeana Smith, Bret Michaels, Charles Lloyd, Dee Snider, Eva Longoria, Fabio, Frances Conroy, Judd Hirsch, Kellan Lutz, among others.

Mike Tomlin Family

Who are Mike Tomlin’s parents?

Michael Pettaway Tomlin was born in Hampton, Virginia to Ed Tomlin and Julia. He hardly knew his father, who was a football player at Hampton Institute in the 1960s. Ed was drafted by the Baltimore Colts and then played for the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League. He died from an apparent heart attack in Ocala, Florida aged 63 in January 2012. Mike was brought up by his mother and stepfather, Julia and Leslie Copeland, who married when Mike was aged 6 years old.

Does Mike Tomlin have siblings?

Tomlin was born the youngest in a family of two sons. He has an older brother Eddie Tomlin, who is three and a half years older than him.

Mike Tomlin Education

Tomlin studied at Denbigh High School in Newport News, Virginia, and graduated in 1990. He then joined the College of William and Mary, and after graduating he became a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. In College, he played football as a wide receiver and was a second-team All-Yankee Conference selection in 1994.

Mike Tomlin Interest

Tomlin grew interested in football after joining the college as he played as a wide receiver and was a second-team All-Yankee Conference selection in 1994. He is also a Christian by faith and attends Christian and Missionary Alliance church.

Mike Tomlin Wife

Tomlin is married to his long-time lover Kiya Winston, who they met as students at The College of William & Mary. The couple married in 1996 and has three children together from their happy marriage, with whom they live in Squirrel Hill.

Mike Tomlin Kids

Tomlin and the love of his life, Kiye have three children together. The couple has two sons, Michael Dean Tomlin, who was born in 2000, Mason Tomlin, born in 2001, and a daughter Harlyn Quinn Tomlin, born in 2006.

Mike Tomlin Height

Tomlin is a celebrity head coach, with an amazingly well-built, and muscular body with an impressive height of 5 ft 8 in (1.75 m) and a weight of 85 kg (187.39 lbs).

Mike Tomlin Net Worth

The African-American head coach of Pittsburgh Steelers, Tomlin has been coaching the team for more than 15 years and is a celebrity coach. He earns an annual salary of $11.5 million as a head coach and has gathered an estimated net worth of approximately $16 million as of 2021.

NFL

Positions coach

Mike was hired to serve as the defensive backs coach in 2001 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is where he learned the Tampa 2 defense that he would use in later coaching jobs. The Buccaneers led the NFL in total defense with the fewest yards allowed per game in 2002 and 2005. In his time there the defense never ranked worse than sixth overall. After the team won Super Bowl XXXVII in January 2003, they recorded a Super Bowl-record five interceptions, three of which were returned for touchdowns.

Defensive coordinator

Mike was chosen in 2006, by Vikings’ head coach Brad Childress to be his defensive coordinator. He was younger than two of the players on the Vikings roster and he had been a teammate of Vikings’ safety Darren Sharper while at William and Mary. The 2006 team finished with the NFL’s eighth-best overall defense, although they had the unusual distinction of completing as the top-ranked defense against the run. As well as the worst-ranked defense against the pass.

Head coach

Joining the Pittsburgh Steelers

Following his time as the Vikings defensive coordinator in 2006, he was chosen to interview for the vacant head coaching position with the 2005 Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers. He was hired on January 27, 2007, to become the sixteenth Steelers head coach with only one year of experience as a defensive coordinator. Mike took the position of Bill Cowher, who retired after serving 15 years with the team. Tomlin also had interviewed for the head coaching vacancy with the Miami Dolphins, a job that finally was given to Cam Cameron.

The Steelers went on a trend of hiring head coaches in their 30s, with Tomlin. The other coaches were Cowher (age 34 in 19920, Chuch Noil (38 in 1969), Bill Austin (38 in 1966), John Michelosen (32 in 19480. As well as Jim Leonard (35 in 1945), Aldo Donelli (33 in 1941), Walt Kiesling (35 in 1939), Johnny ”Blood” McNally (33 in 19937), and Joe Bach (34 in 1935).

Mike is the 10th African-American head coach in NFL history and the first for the Steelers franchise. The team’s owner Dan Rooney has served as the head of the NFL’s diversity committee and proposed the Rooney Rule. This rule required that teams interview at least one minority candidate when hiring a new head coach.

2007 season

The terms of Tomlin’s contract were not officially revealed. He was however the team’s third consecutive head coach to win his first game and the first in team history to win his first game against the opponent Cleveland Browns. In comparison to Cowher, who retained only longtime running backs coach Dick Koak from Chuck Noll’s staff. Mike retained many of Cowher’s assistants mostly the defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau, whose defensive philosophy contrasted with Tomlin’s.

The Steelers completed Tomlin’s first season as head coach with the top-ranked defense in the NFL. He led the team to the 2007 AFC North Division Championship and a 10-6 record in his first year as head coach. Mike set a Steelers record for most wins, following winning 22 games in his first two seasons as head coach. In addition to this, he became the first Steelers coach to win division titles in his first two seasons.

2008 season

After the Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens in the 2008 AFC Championship Game, Tomlin became the youngest NFL head coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl. Additionally, he became the third African-American to coach a team to the Super Bowl, after Indianapolis’s Tony Dungy, and Chicago’s Lovie Smith the two opposing coaches in Super Bowl XLI. Following his two seasons with a record of 22-10, he was the winningest head coach in Steelers history based on to win percentage (68.8%).

2009 season

He was named the 2008 Motorola NFL Coach of the Year on January 29, 2009. At the age of 36, on February 1, 2009, Mike became the youngest head coach to win the Super Bowl after the team beat the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII. Previously the record was held by Jon Gruden, who won the Super Bowl XXXVII with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the age of 39. Coincidentally, Mike was Gruden’s defensive backs coach when the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl and a key component in their success.

Tomlin signed a three-year contract extension with the Steelers on July 13, 2010. He coached the Steelers to a 12-4 record and led them to the Super Bowl for the second time in three years in 2010. They lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-25 in Suoer Bowl XLV. He was the fourth to reach this milestone of the Steelers’ 16 head coaches in franchise history.

2012 season

Mike then got a three-year contract extension to the 2016 season on July 24, 2012, but the financial terms were not disclosed. The team finished 8-8 following struggles with injuries to quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and the offensive line and adjusting to the system of new offensive coordinator Todd Haley in the 2012 season. This was the second time the Steelers failed to make the playoffs under Tomlin’s time as head coach.

Controversy in 2013

On November 28, 2013, in a primetime Thanksgiving Day Game against the Baltimore Ravens, Mike became the subject of controversy when the video replay showed him interfering with a kick return. The Steelers were trailing 13-7 in the third quarter and he stood just off the field along the visiting team’s sideline when Baltimore’s Jacoby Jones broke free on a kickoff return for a potential game-breaking touchdown. Mike had his back to the approaching play and appeared to glance over his shoulder then placed his foot briefly onto the field as he jumped and caused Jones to veer inside where he was tackled.

However he was not penalized and the Ravens did not get a penalty, Mike then defended himself claiming it was a mistake many coaches make in a game, wandering into the field. He was later fined a fine of $100,000 on December 4, 2013, after an investigation was done, and it was hinted it was being considered that the team is stripped one or more draft picks as his actions affected the play on the field.

2019 season

The Steelers lost their starting quarterback after Week 2 against the Seahawks in a 28-26 home loss in the 2019 season. They finally got their first win in week 4 against the Cincinnati Bengals, although they had begun the season 0-3. The Steelers then lost in the next week to the division-winning Baltimore Ravens in a 26-23 overtime defeat. They went on to a winning streak winning their next 4 games straight going 5-4 following the 1-4 start.

Later after losing a game on the road to the Cleveland Browns with the score of 21-14, the team won 3 more straight and were 8-5. They were struggling for a playoff spot with the loss of their quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and multiple injuries on the offense. They would then lose their last 3 games and complete the season with an 8-8 record in spite of multiple quarterback changes and an 0-3 start.

2020 season

By the conclusion of the 2020 season, Mike tied with Pete Carroll for 21st position on the NFL’s all-time regular-season victory list with 145. He was fined US$100,000 by the NFL because of not wearing a face mask properly, according to requirements for coaches in the COVID-19 pandemic, during the week 8 game in the 2020 NFL season on November 6, 2020.

He recorded his 14th consecutive non-losing season since becoming a head coach after week 9 of the 2020 season. This led to him tying with Marty Schottenheimer for the longest streak of all time.

2021

On February 22, 2021, he revealed he tested positive for COVID-19 after the season. He then signed a three-year contract extension to stay as the Steelers head coach through 2021, on April 20, 2021. The 2021 season will be his 15th with the team tying with predecessor Bill Cowher for the second-longest time as head coach.