Many fans came into the 2023 NFL Draft thinking, even hoping, that Penn State CB Joey Porter Jr. would be the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round draft pick. That didn’t quite happen but they still landed him 32nd overall, the top of round two, after he surprisingly slid down the draft boards.
While he would’ve preferred to have gone to Pittsburgh at 17 (they ended up trading to 14 to select OT Broderick Jones), he knows he’s in the right place, where his father, Joey Porter Jr., both played and coached and where he even acted as a ball boy once upon a time.