Joey Porter Jr. is the latest player, in a line of too many, to make his way out of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
The cornerback was traded to the Dallas Cowboys for a 2027 sixth-round draft pick and a 2028 second-round pick.<\/p>\n
On the Pomp and Joe Show Thursday, Joe Starkey went over the list of players that have \u201cquit\u201d on the team over the years.<\/p>\n
Antonio Brown \u2013 \u201cHe left practice and never returned,\u201d said Starkey.<\/p>\n
Brown skipped meetings and practices after a blowup before a Week 17 game in 2018. He was traded before the next season.<\/p>\n
LeGarrette Blount \u2013 \u201cWalked off the field during the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The running back was released in November 2014 and, after clearing waivers, re-signed with the New England Patriots winning a Super Bowl that year<\/p>\n
James Harrison (2nd stint) \u201cFalls asleep in meetings, leaves games at halftime when he\u2019s scratched from the lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harrison was upset of his decreased playing time in 2017, was released and signed with the Patriots. He appeared in Super Bowl LII but the Pats lost that year.<\/p>\n
Melvin Ingram \u2013 \u201cfakes an injury.\u201d<\/p>\n
The linebacker didn\u2019t want to play in Pittsburgh anymore and was traded to Kansas City in 2021 for a sixth-round pick.<\/p>\n
Kenny Pickett \u2013 \u201ctells Tomlin he won\u2019t compete with Russell Wilson.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2022 first-round draft pick requested a trade and was dealt to the Philadelphia Eagles in March 2024.<\/p>\n
Diontae Johnson and George Pickens \u2013 \u201cThey literally quit on plays during games.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson was traded to the Carolina Panthers before the 2024 season and Pickens was traded to the Cowboys in May 2025, along with a 2027 sixth-round pick for a 2026 third-round pick (turned into QB Drew Allar) and a 2027 fifth-round pick.<\/p>\n
Starkey says if you want out of Pittsburgh all you have to do is to \u201ccause a little trouble\u201d and make it known you want out and you\u2019re gone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joey Porter Jr. is the latest player, in a line of too many, to make his way out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[303,3281,1418,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-297829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-football","tag-joey-porter-jr","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297829","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=297829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}