{"id":889967,"date":"2026-09-13T01:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889967\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:37:08","slug":"with-joey-porter-jr-s-status-unclear-steelers-elevate-cb-doneiko-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889967\/","title":{"rendered":"With Joey Porter Jr.&#8217;s status unclear, Steelers elevate CB Doneiko Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Steelers aren\u2019t sure if Joey Porter Jr. will play against the Falcons on Sunday, so they have added some more help at cornerback. <\/p>\n<p>Doneiko Slaughter has been elevated from the practice squad for Week 1. Slaughter was signed by the Jaguars after going undrafted in 2025 and signed a future contract with the Steelers in January. <\/p>\n<p>Porter is listed as questionable to play due to a back injury that limited him in practice all week. Porter is also looking for a contract extension and the Steelers have a policy that they won\u2019t negotiate after the season is underway, so there are multiple reasons for uncertainty about his Sunday status. <\/p>\n<p>An answer to Porter\u2019s availability will come no later than 90 minutes ahead of kickoff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Steelers aren\u2019t sure if Joey Porter Jr. will play against the Falcons on Sunday, so they have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-889967","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\/889967","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=889967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}