Football isn’t always linear. Despite the coaching adage, it’s not always about getting one percent better. Some players, the ones destined to play on Sundays, are capable of exponential results. Giant leaps and bounds in their play. Such is the case for Pittsburgh Steelers CB Joey Porter Jr. Just ask former teammate Tariq Castro-Fields.
Teammates at Penn State, Castro-Fields was asked about Porter’s college arc.
“We got this Joey Porter kid. He’s gonna be a great one,” Castro-Fields told The Sitdown’s Ernest Walker and Jordan Miner, referring to Porter’s hype coming onto campus. “He’s guarding AB at the Steelers practice, all that…So when he first got to school, I think he still had to learn like how to move and his coordination.