Luke E. Steckel (born April 28, 1985) is an American football coach and former player who is the tight ends coach for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).

Steckel played college football at Princeton and got his first coaching job with the Cleveland Browns in 2009 and previously served as an assistant for the Chicago Bears and Tennessee Titans.

Steckel was born on April 28, 1985, in Boston, Massachusetts.^[1] Steckel's family moved multiple times while he grew up, as his father Les, was a coach in the National Football League (NFL).^[1] He attended high school at Brentwood in Tennessee. He played linebacker and was named team captain as a senior. In his final game, the state championship, Steckel intercepted a pass at the end of the game to seal a 10–7 win.^[2] He was offered multiple scholarships following high school, including from Penn and Yale. He accepted an offer from Princeton on February 3, 2003.^[3] In 2005, he made six tackles as a member of special teams. He became co-captain on defense in his senior season, 2006.^[4]

He moved to Los Angeles, California after college and worked as a production assistant in the films All About Steve and Fast & Furious.

Luke married Lindsay Spieler in June 2018. Luke has two siblings, Lesley, a graduate of Baylor University and Christian, also a Baylor graduate, who is lead sports anchor for WAPT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, and works college basketball games for ESPNU. Luke's uncle, Dave Steckel just like his father is a football coach and is the former head coach of the Missouri State Bears football team and previously served under Gary Pinkel at Missouri.