Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. wants a new contract. If he doesn\u2019t have one before the season starts, he\u2019s not sure if he\u2019ll be on the field.<\/p>\n
Asked today if he\u2019ll play Week One without a new deal, Porter was noncommittal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. I would have to talk to the guys upstairs and my agents about that one,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n
Some of Porter\u2019s answers to reporters\u2019 questions were contradictory: Porter was just activated from the physically unable to perform list, and when asked if he\u2019ll play if he\u2019s healthy, Porter answered, \u201cYeah, for sure, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Porter did participate in today\u2019s walk-through practice but said that\u2019s not any indication of what he\u2019ll be doing when the Steelers open the season on Sunday, September 13, against the Falcons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really can\u2019t speak too much to the future, but today I was out there, running with the guys, still trying to get back fully, but we\u2019re going to try to take it day by day for the most part, and that\u2019s the same page me and coach have been on so far,\u201d Porter said.<\/p>\n
Porter said his contract situation has weighed on him but he thinks he has the support of the people in the Steelers\u2019 facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been tough, not going to lie,\u201d Porter said. \u201cIt\u2019s my first go around this, but I mean, it\u2019s been also great because I have all my guys with me, all the coaches and players really on my side, understand everything about the business side of things. . . . It\u2019s been a little bit tough, but at the end of the day, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Steelers say they won\u2019t negotiate with Porter during the regular season, which means they have less than two weeks to get a deal done. And Porter is sending a message that if they don\u2019t get a deal done, he may not be there when the season starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. wants a new contract. If he doesn\u2019t have one before the season starts,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-834003","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\/834003","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=834003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}