The Steelers added to their coaching staff on Tuesday with the hiring of Adrian Klemm as assistant offensive line coach. Klemm, who steps into the role that was held by Shaun Sarrett before he was promoted to offensive line coach, comes to the Steelers from the college ranks where he has nine years of experience. Most recently he was the associate head coach/run game coordinator/offensive line coach at UCLA from 2012-16. Klemm started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Southern Methodist (2008), before becoming the offensive line coach/recruiting coordinator there from 2009-11. He doesn't just bring coaching experience with him as he played six seasons in the NFL. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2000 NFL Draft with the 46th pick overall. He spent five seasons with the Patriots and was a member of the three Super Bowl championship teams. He finished his playing career in 2005 with the Green Bay Packers.<doc-sep>It was unfortunate when the Pittsburgh Steelers lost offensive line coach Mike Munchak. Munchak chose to be closer to family and made a lateral move to the Denver Broncos. This meant the Steelers would promote Shaun Sarrett to become the new offensive line coach. And now the Steelers make a smart signing of Adrian Klemm to work with Sarrett as an additional offensive assistant. New Assistant Offensive Line Coach Adrian Klemm brings nine years of collegiate coaching experience to Pittsburgh. pic.twitter.com/20B5rxPGhG — Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) February 5, 2019 Klemm spent 2012-2016 with UCLA as a run game specialist/assistant head coach. By all accounts, Klemm hasn’t coached anywhere since leaving UCLA in 2016. This gap in his work history probably doesn’t bode well but it remains to be seen what Klemm brings to the table. As a player, Klemm won three Super Bowls as a member of the New England Patriots. Klemm played his college football at the University of Hawaii.<doc-sep>Getty Images The Steelers lost offensive line coach Mike Munchak to the Broncos and promoted his assistant Shaun Sarrett to take his place, which left them in need of a new assistant offensive line coach for the 2019 season. They filled that hole on Tuesday. The team announced that Adrian Klemm has joined the staff as Sarrett’s assistant. Klemm was the associate head coach/run game coordinator/offensive line coach at UCLA from 2012-2016 and was the offensive line coach at SMU for three years before making the move to the Bruins. He has not coached in the NFL. He has played in the NFL, however. Klemm was a second-round pick by the Patriots in 2000 and won three Super Bowl rings during five years in New England. He finished his playing career by spending one season with the Packers. The Steelers have also added running backs coach Eddie Faulkner and senior defensive assistant/secondary coach Teryl Austin to the staff this offseason.<doc-sep>There is exactly one player on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ roster right now who has won a Super Bowl with the team, which would obviously be two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The only other player currently on the roster with a ring is safety Morgan Burnett, whose Green Bay Packers beat the Steelers in the 2010 Super Bowl, and who will likely be released in the coming weeks. Just three other players remain from the 2010 team, those being wide receiver Antonio Brown, Ramon Foster, and center Maurkice Pouncey—and frankly, we don’t know if Brown will be in Pittsburgh much longer either. In other words, even though this is an organization that owns as many Lombardi trophies as any other, this is not a roster that can claim to be reflective of that past, claiming just four players who have ever been in a Super Bowl with the Steelers, and just one with a ring. Not that it’s the same thing, but new assistant offensive line coach Adrian Klemm brings an amount of hardware that nobody else on the roster or on the staff can claim. As a player, Klemm won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots in the early 2000s, though he was only a part-time starter at that time. Of course there are some coaches on the staff who have rings—Head Coach Mike Tomlin has two Super Bowl rings, one with the Steelers and one as the defensive backs coach of the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for example—all of these are old faces whose stories have grown stale. And there is no group on the roster more hungry for a championship than the offensive line, which is the most veteran on the team and includes two players who have experienced what it’s like to lose the Super Bowl already. While Mike Munchak was a Hall of Famer as a player, you only chase the Hall of Fame after the fact. Your goal as a player is to win championships, and Klemm can flash those championship rings around to extend credibility unto himself as he heads into his first coaching position at the NFL—and the first anywhere in a couple of years due to extenuating circumstances. And who knows, perhaps Klemm can even share some wisdom about how the Patriots and Bill Belichick ran things in the early 2000s, though perhaps things have changed since then even as they continue to win at an unprecedented rate. Naturally, first and foremost, his responsibility is simply to come in and do his job as well as he can in assisting Shaun Sarrett in working with a veteran offensive line group. But having some championship cachet as a former player doesn’t hurt either.<doc-sep>
The Pittsburgh Steelers now have a new assistant offensive line coach and it’s Adrian Klemm, a former NFL player who most recently had spent five seasons coaching at UCLA from 2012-2016. We have hired Adrian Klemm as assistant offensive line coach. MORE: https://t.co/PbjxHlq6sk pic.twitter.com/hEtM5FZMLi — Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) February 5, 2019 Klemm, who played his college football at Hawaii, was selected by the New England Patriots in the second round of the 2000 NFL Draft and he went on to win three Super Bowl championships with them. After five seasons with the Patriots, Klemm played his final NFL year with the Green Bay Packers in 2005. After his NFL career ended, Klemm started his college coaching career as a graduate assistant at SMU in 2008. From 2009 to 2011 he was the offensive line coach at SMU and even coached former Steelers tackle Kelvin Beachum while there. While at SMU, Klemm was named the school’s recruiting coordinator in the summer of 2011. In December 2011, Klemm accepted an offer to become the offensive line coach and run game coordinator for UCLA under then head coach Jim Mora, Jr. During his five years at UCLA, Klemm was added associate head coach to his duties. UCLA essentially fired Klemm in January of 2017 amid possible recruiting violations. Klemm essentially takes over the job that Shaun Sarrett did prior to him being named the team’s new offensive line coach after Mike Munchak left to become the new offensive line coach of the Denver Broncos. Klemm’s UCLA bio