{"id":849623,"date":"2026-09-16T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849623\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:36:10","slug":"dulac-wouldnt-shock-me-if-steelers-trade-joey-porter-jr-floats-third-round-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849623\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulac: \u2018Wouldn\u2019t Shock Me\u2019 If Steelers Trade Joey Porter Jr., Floats Third-Round Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time the Pittsburgh Steelers traded a malcontent star, they received just a third-round pick in return for WR George Pickens. Could history repeat itself with CB Joey Porter Jr.? The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s Gerry Dulac thinks it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has no leverage in this matter. I can\u2019t tell you what they\u2019re going to do because I don\u2019t know, but I know this,\u201d Dulac said via 102.5 WDVE\u2019s Morning Show on Monday<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen it in the past\u2026If somebody comes and they\u2019re willing to give them a decent offer, it wouldn\u2019t shock me at all if they trade him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Steelers have so far taken a diplomatic approach to Porter\u2019s in-season holdout. The team has allowed him to remain sidelined under the guise of a back injury despite multiple reports indicating he is healthy enough to play.<\/p>\n

Even Mike McCarthy continued using the \u201cramp-up period\u201d<\/a>\u00a0explanation as recently as Monday, maintaining the team\u2019s public stance on the situation.<\/p>\n

At some point, the Steelers may have to stop playing nice if Porter continues to refuse to honor the final year of his rookie deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not just going to sit there and tolerate or acquiesce to what he wants. If he wants out and they\u2019ve had enough, then you know what? They\u2019ll get rid of him,\u201d Dulac said.<\/p>\n

The issue is, whatever team trades for him needs to turn around and give him the contract he was hoping for. Not that many teams have enough cap space to do so at this point in the NFL calendar. Porter may not return the Steelers as much draft capital as he would have in March, for example.<\/p>\n

Dulac floated what a hypothetical trade return could look like for Porter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they could probably get a third-round pick for him,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m hesitant to call it a charade, but if the charade continues, then what\u2019s the point of even having him around?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh could still be holding out hope that Porter realizes he has little leverage and returns to the team for the remainder of his contract. But if it becomes clear that isn\u2019t happening, the Steelers may decide it\u2019s better to get something in return for him now rather than let the situation drag out into another Le\u2019Veon Bell-like standoff.<\/p>\n

And just like George Pickens, the trade return may not be as rich as some fans are hoping for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time the Pittsburgh Steelers traded a malcontent star, they received just a third-round pick in return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[47383,170709,30949,20019,349,99,3795],"class_list":["post-849623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-102-5-wdve","tag-dve-morning-show","tag-gerry-dulac","tag-joey-porter-jr","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849623","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=849623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}