Steelers announces front office changes

The Steelers made several moves in their football department Friday afternoon, including announcing the hiring of Andy Weidl as assistant general manager, Sheldon White as director of professional scouting and the promotion of Dan Colbert as director of college scouting. The moves follow that the team earlier this week appointed Omar Khan as the franchise’s new general manager.

Weidl joins the Steelers from the Philadelphia Eagles, where he was vice president of player staff since 2019.

“I’ve known Andy for a long time and we had meetings and discussed how I would structure this and I just felt like Andy was a valuable piece, would be a valuable piece for me,” Khan said. “I’m very lucky we were able to solve things and get him over here. He’s a strong evaluator.”

It will be a homecoming for Weidl, who is based in Pittsburgh and began his NFL scouting career with the Steelers as a 1998-99 personnel assistant, assisting with the evaluation of college and NFL players.

His career took him to three other teams, the New Orleans Saints, Baltimore Ravens and Eagles, before returning home to his Pittsburgh roots.

Weidl was with the Saints for five seasons, starting as a national combine scout from 2000-02. He was elevated to Northeast area scout in 2003, where he spent two seasons in that role.

His path then led him to Baltimore, where he spent 11 seasons and was part of the Ravens’ Super Bowl XLVII staff in 2012. He began his stay with the Ravens as a scout in the West area from 2005-08. He spent the next three seasons (2009-12) as the Ravens Northeast Scout, and another three seasons (2013-15) as their Eastern Regional Scout.

Weidl joined the Eagles in 2016 when he was appointed assistant director of player staff. Weidl was promoted to chief of staff in 2018, a position he held for one season.

He took his career to the next step when he was promoted to vice president of player staff in 2019, a role he held until he was hired by the Steelers.

During his tenure in Philadelphia, he played a key role in helping the Eagles achieve post-season success, including two NFC East Championships (2017 and 2019) and a victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII.

Weidl played football on Mt. Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh and then went on to play college football at Villanova, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in communications and his master’s degree in human resources development. He was the Thomas J. Burke Award recipient at Villanova, honored for his ‘consistent performance and dedication’ as an offensive lineman.

Weidl and his wife Aimee have a daughter, Payten, and two sons, Luke and Christian.