The past few weeks have not been kind to Joey Porter Jr. The Pittsburgh Steelers have faced some of the best wide receivers in the NFL, and Porter has had a few rough performances. Questions are starting to be raised about Porter’s ability to be a true lockdown corner. However, Steelers DC Teryl Austin hasn’t lost faith in Porter.
“He’s going to play some top receivers and there will be some times it goes his way and sometimes it doesn’t,” Austin said Wednesday via the team’s transcripts. “He’s played [Ja’Marr] Chase and A.J. [Brown] and Tee Higgins and DeVonta [Smith], so that’s a pretty good quartet of receivers right there.