Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. isn’t a perfect player. He’s the team’s clear No. 1 and a good corner though still a little ways away from establishing himself as a premiere corner league-wide. Still, when you look at who the league took instead of Porter in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft, they done goofed up. Big time.
Saturday served as a reminder. Porter was the fifth cornerback taken that year. The four ahead of him were Illinois’ Devon Witherspoon selected fifth by Seattle, Mississippi State’s Emmanuel Forbes taken 16th by Washington, Oregon’s Christian Watson 17th via New England, and Maryland’s Deonte Banks 24th with the New York Giants turning the in the card with his name.