{"id":883766,"date":"2026-09-07T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883766\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:04:14","slug":"mike-mccarthy-hopeful-that-joey-porter-will-play-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883766\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McCarthy hopeful that Joey Porter will play Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers do not negotiate contract extensions once the season starts. Thus, time is running out for the team to complete a long-term deal with cornerback Joey Porter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/steelers\/onsi\/pittsburgh-steelers-joey-porter-jr-update-week-1-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">It\u2019s a business<\/a>, and there\u2019s definitely business conversations going on,\u201d head coach McCarthy said Monday, via Jack Markowski of SI.com. <\/p>\n<p>McCarthy insinuated that he expects Porter to play regardless how talks turn out before Sunday\u2019s season opener against the Falcons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I hope so,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cYou know, just keep working him. He\u2019s still, I\u2019d put him in a ramp-up mode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what happens if Porter doesn\u2019t play, McCarthy said, \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Porter practiced for the first time last Tuesday after spending all of training camp on the active\/physically unable to perform list. But last week he was noncommittal about playing Week 1 absent a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Porter, a second-round pick in 2023, is entering the final year of his rookie contract scheduled to make $3.924 million this year.<\/p>\n<p>He is coming off a career year, totaling a career-high 14 passes defensed to go along with 52 tackles, one sack and one interception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers do not negotiate contract extensions once the season starts. Thus, time is running out for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-883766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}