Rumors proceed to hyperlink Joey Porter Jr. of the Pittsburgh Steelers with nearly any team in want of a cornerback amid a contract standoff that seemingly has no finish in sight.
For a bit printed on Wednesday, Alan Saunders of Steelers Now defined why the 2 sides have not come to an settlement heading into Week 2 of the 2026 season.
Assured cash is what’s maintaining Steelers, Joey Porter Jr. aside
“The Steelers and Porter reached an deadlock over the assured cash in his contract, a number of sources have repeatedly instructed Steelers Now,” Saunders wrote. “There was an inaccurate report on the market earlier this week that in contrast the assured cash within the contract the Steelers supplied Porter to these of Christian Gonzalez and Devon Witherspoon. The present NFL document for many totally assured cash given to a cornerback was to Witherspoon, who acquired $59M on a four-year deal from the Seattle Seahawks. Gonzalez, in full ensures, acquired $53.9M from the Patriots. They each eclipsed the mark of Trent McDuffie, who earlier this season acquired $50M from the Los Angeles Rams.”
Based on Saunders, “one well-placed supply” stated that the Steelers’ “supply to Porter would have put him in that $40M assured membership.”
A earlier report stated that Porter felt a suggestion offered to him two weeks earlier than the beginning of the season was “insulting.” Assuming the Steelers stick to their coverage of not negotiating with a participant after the beginning of a daily season, he might should demand a commerce to obtain his desired extension earlier than he subsequent takes the sector.
For the reason that evening of Sept. 13, quite a few golf equipment have been mentioned as potential touchdown spots for Porter. Nevertheless, Saunders stated that “the Steelers don’t need to commerce Porter and aren’t procuring him to groups.”
How the Steelers-Joey Porter Jr. scenario may get ugly
Porter did not play in Pittsburgh’s 20-13 Week 1 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Sept. 13 as a result of he reportedly was coping with setbacks associated to the alleged again harm that stored him on the bodily unable to carry out checklist for a lot of August. His standing for this coming Sunday’s sport on the 0-1 New England Patriots remained unclear as of Thursday morning.
Throughout a Wednesday look on Pittsburgh sports activities radio station 93.7 The Fan, NFL insider Aditi Kinkhabwala of CBS Sports activities urged that the Steelers ought to not tolerate Porter being a restricted participant in practices attributable to “conditioning.”
“At that time, is that this a little bit spineless? Like, medically clear him and nice him,” Kinkhabwala stated about Pittsburgh’s dealing with of the Porter scenario, per Matthew Marczi of Steelers Depot. “If it is not the again anymore, then wasn’t it incumbent upon him to be conditioned?”
After all, the Steelers taking place such a street may trigger extra Porter-related complications. Then once more, maybe Pittsburgh will shock members of the soccer group and signal Porter to an extension earlier than the upcoming weekend will get underway.
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