The Pittsburgh Steelers released their list of players who will be inactive for the team\u2019s Week 1 Sunday afternoon regular-season opener against the Atlanta Falcons and it includes CB Joey Porter Jr. in addition to a few rookies.<\/p>\n
After being listed as questionable for Sunday\u2019s game on the Friday injury report, Porter is on the Steelers\u2019 pregame inactive list. He was listed with a back injury throughout the week and only practiced on a limited basis. Porter, however, has also been involved in a contract impasse throughout the offseason and that likely is the main reason he is not playing on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Also inactive for Sunday\u2019s game are Steelers quarterbacks Will Howard and Drew Allar. Howard is dressed and listed as the team\u2019s emergency third quarterback. He can only play against the Falcons should both QB Aaron Rodgers and Mason Rudolph get injured during the contest.<\/p>\n
The Steelers\u2019 list of inactive players also includes several healthy scratches. Those players are OG Gennings Dunker, DT Kevin Jobity Jr., and DL Gabriel Rubio.<\/p>\n
The Steelers elevated CB Doneiko Slaughter from their practice squad on Saturday, and he is in uniform and active for Sunday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Steelers\u2019 Inactive Players<\/p>\n
QB Will Howard (3rd QB)
QB Drew Allar
OG Gennings Dunker
DT Kevin Jobity Jr.
Dl Gabriel Rubio
CB Joey Porter Jr.<\/p>\n
Falcons\u2019 Inactive Players<\/p>\n
No. 1 QB Tua Tagovailoa
No. 9 QB Michael Penix Jr.
No. 33 CB Billy Bowman Jr.
No. 36 CB Malcolm DeWalt
No. 45 ILB Christian Harris
No. 75 OT Ethan Onianwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers released their list of players who will be inactive for the team\u2019s Week 1 Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11861,60466,78811,76989,30417,3281,82625,73,75,74,1833,118878,39813],"class_list":["post-285301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-drew-allar","tag-gabriel-rubio","tag-gennings-dunker","tag-inactives","tag-joey-porter-jr","tag-kevin-jobity-jr","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-week-1","tag-will-howard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}