If Joey Porter Jr. was destined to become a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, then that was news to him. Not only did they pass him by in the first round, but they gave him no indications they were targeting him. Despite the doubts, he told Cameron Heyward he genuinely had no idea he might be a Steeler.
“Not one time”, he said on the Not Just Football podcast, did Porter feel like the Steelers would draft him. “It was crazy. Everybody would tell me, ‘Nah, you’re just saying that’”, but he insists he really felt that way.