The Pittsburgh Steelers cleaning soap opera with Joey Porter Jr. reached its subsequent act on Friday afternoon when the group formally dominated the cornerback out for his or her Week 2 recreation in opposition to the New England Patriots on Sunday.
Porter Jr. took half in a number of particular person drills on Thursday before leaving with a trainer.
The group continues to take care of that Porter Jr. is coping with a again damage, but it surely’s changing into fairly clear that is all simply a part of the combat between the group and participant after they had been unable to achieve a contract extension previous to the season.
Joey Porter Jr. will miss one other recreation for Steelers
Porter Jr. is within the closing 12 months of his rookie contract and has been in search of a brand new deal all summer season. They had been by no means capable of hammer out an settlement, and given the Steelers’ self-imposed rule of not negotiating contracts throughout the season, it leaves the group in a multitude the place their high cornerback goes out of his method to not play.
After “holding in” all through most of coaching camp, Porter Jr. was inactive within the group’s 20-13 win over the Atlanta Falcons in Week 1.
Head coach Mike McCarthy stored attempting to push the concept that it was all about ramping Porter Jr. up in his conditioning to be prepared for video games, and stored insisting that he was going to do extra this week to get nearer to enjoying.
All of that went sideways on Thursday when Porter Jr. left group drills.
On Friday, they formally listed him as out resulting from “NRI/Conditioning/Again.”
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