In the early portion of the Thursday Night Football matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tennessee Titans at Acrisure Stadium to open up Week Nine in the NFL, Steelers’ rookie cornerback Joey Porter Jr. had a rough go of things.
Porter, making his second NFL start, had a rather ugly rep against the run taking on Titans’ rookie running back Tyjae Spears in the open field, lacking that physicality he displayed in college at Penn State, allowing Spears to turn what should have been no gain into a chain-moving run.
A few plays later, Porter was called for two flags on one play, one of which was offsides as he jumped into the neutral zone trying to press Titans’ wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, and then was called for illegal use of hands later on in the rep, wiping out an Alex Highsmith sack that would have held the Titans to a field goal.