Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Blaine Stewart enters his second season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2026.

Blaine Stewart enters his second season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2026.

In his first season running quality control operations for Tampa Bay in 2025, Stewart contributed to an offense that ranked top 10 in plays of 20+ yards (64 – t-10th), third down conversion percentage on run plays (63.9% – third) and overall third down conversion percentage (41.2% – 10th). Stewart also contributed to the development of rookie wide receivers Emeka Egbuka and Tez Johnson. Egbuka finished second among all rookies in receiving yards (938), receiving touchdowns (six) and yards after catch (335), while Johnson finished with the second-most receiving touchdowns by a rookie seventh round pick since the 1970 NFL merger.

Stewart brought seven years of prior coaching experience to Tampa Bay, including five at the NFL level. Most recently Stewart spent two seasons as tight ends coach at West Virginia University (2023-24), coaching Kole Taylor – who signed with the Cincinnati Bengals during the 2025 offseason as an undrafted free agent – to All-Big 12 honors in each of his two seasons working with Stewart. Taylor was the Mountaineers leading receiver in 2023, before tallying the second-most single season receptions by a tight end in program history in 2024 (43). West Virgina boasted a top 10 Power Four rush offense in each of Stewart's two seasons with the program, including a No. 1 Power Four finish in 2023.

During his first stint in the NFL, Stewart spent five seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, beginning his career as a coaching assistant (2018-19) before being promoted to assistant wide receivers coach (2020-22). Over that span, the Steelers earned a pair of playoff berths, including a 2020 AFC North division title, and three different Steelers wide receivers were named to the Pro Bowl: Antonio Brown (2018), JuJu Smith-Schuster (2018) and Diontae Johnson (2021). Stewart also coached Chase Claypool to the rookie lead in receiving touchdowns in 2020 (nine), while finishing fourth in both receptions (62) and receiving yards (873) in a stacked wide receiver class.

In 2020, Stewart was the West quarterbacks coach in the East West Shrine Bowl, alongside another member of the current Buccaneers coaching staff in Inside Linebackers Coach Mike Caldwell. He served as the West quarterbacks coach again in 2026, guiding Iowa's Mark Gronowski to Offensive MVP honors.

A native of Morgantown, West Virginia, Stewart played collegiately at James Madison (2013-15) and the University of Charleston (2016-17). He won the CAA Conference Championship with JMU in 2015 and was twice named CAA Academic All-Conference (2014, 2015), in addition to earning the CAA Commissioner's Academic Award in 2013. Stewart received his bachelor's degree from James Madison and his master's degree from Charleston. He is the son of late West Virginia head football coach Bill Stewart, who led the Mountaineers to a 28-12 (.700) three-year record from 2008-10.