While staying in your hometown and playing for the team your dad spent over a decade with always sounded good on paper, CB Joey Porter Jr. assumed it was storybook. A script even Hollywood would reject for being too on the nose. So when he realized the Pittsburgh Steelers were turning in the card with his name on it, Porter was shocked. He joined the Arthur Moats Experience with Deke podcast to share his wave of emotions on draft night, an expected first-rounder who had to wait longer than he thought.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, the Steelers are definitely not getting me,'” Porter told the show in an interview recorded Wednesday.