{"id":723904,"date":"2026-06-24T22:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723904\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:02:23","slug":"report-joey-porter-jr-steelers-arent-close-on-a-long-term-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723904\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Joey Porter Jr., Steelers aren&#8217;t close on a long-term extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. wants a long-term extension. He may or may not get one.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette questioned whether the team and Porter will come to an agreement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/steelers\/2026\/06\/24\/nfl-news-joey-porter-rodgers-mccarthy-will-howard-allar\/stories\/202606240035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">haven\u2019t soured on the idea<\/a>, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re prepared to pay him the amount some people think he is worth,\u201d Dulac wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Porter did limited work in the offseason program, and he could continue with a hold-in during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie leads all players at his position with an annual salary of $31 million. Indianapolis\u2019 Sauce Gardner and Houston\u2019s Derek Stingley Jr. are at $30 million a season.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s Devon Witherspoon and New England\u2019s Christian Gonzalez soon could sign deals with similar annual averages.<\/p>\n<p>Porter, who turns 26 later this week, has never earned Pro Bowl or All-Pro honors. He has three interceptions and 31 pass breakups in 47 career games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. wants a long-term extension. He may or may not get one. Gerry Dulac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-723904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}