Will Steelers DB Joey Porter Jr play against the Bengals? What we know
Steelers DB Joey Porter Jr. was listed as limited because of conditioning on the team's injury report ahead of a Week 3 game against the Bengals.
Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back Joey Porter Jr. was marked as limited due to conditioning on the team's injury report for an upcoming NFL Week 3 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals at Acrisure Stadium. The report did not mention his back injury, which was listed as "NIR (not injury related)/conditioning." Porter has been in a contract dispute with the Steelers, leading to his unavailability for interviews after practice on September 23.
He missed the team's first two games this season due to the back injury. Porter, a second-round pick from Penn State in 2023, did not receive a penalty for defensive pass interference during the fourth quarter of Pittsburgh's Week 7 loss to Cincinnati, despite tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. Notably, in 2024, Porter suffered a knee injury against the Ravens.
In 2023, an NFL video showed Bengals receiver Ja Marr Chase making a remarkable catch over Porter while holding a mouthguard. Porter and his father, former Steelers linebackers coach and current NFL enforcer Joey Porter Sr., appeared in the second episode of the show "Hard Knocks: In Season with the AFC North." Porter Sr. has refused to eat in Cincinnati, Baltimore, or Cleveland due to negative fan reactions to his son.
The 2016 "Joey Porter rule" was one of the four changes, clarifications, or reminders the NFL instituted following the Bengals-Steelers rivalry.
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