The Pittsburgh Steelers added Donte Jackson this offseason to pair with Joey Porter Jr. at cornerback. It has been a fruitful pairing so far, the veteran with three interceptions. Neither of them is perfect—no cornerback is—but they are working and growing together.
And Jackson is making sure to keep Porter hungry. He knows they haven’t played that long together, but he knows how good they can be. And to get there, they have to keep working, even on the bye week. That was his guidance for the second-year cornerback over the break.
“We didn’t play a lot of ball, [but] we played a lot of good ball”, Jackson said of his time with Porter, via the Steelers’ website.