When the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted CB Joey Porter Jr. with the No. 32 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, the Steelers got a player who was very familiar with head coach Mike Tomlin, and vice versa. During a sitdown interview on The Pivot Podcast, Joey Porter Sr. talked the familiarity that Porter Jr. and Tomlin have with each other and their families.
“He playing for his uncle. It don’t get no better than that,” Porter Sr. said. “Like, he just spent nights over there, I done had Dino and Mason at the house. What’s so good about Mike T is once you with him, you with him.