Is Joey Porter Jr. the NFL’s next lockdown cornerback?
The Pittsburgh Steelers sure hope so, anyway. Their second-year starter, Joey Porter Jr., showed as a rookie that he can hang with opponents’ top wide receivers. But those top receivers didn’t always represent the best the NFL has to offer, and he certainly had some issues. For one thing, he has to clean up his penalties, for example.
Porter came along slowly last season, the Steelers gradually working him in. He graduated from dime defender to full-time starter over the course of the first half of the year.