{"id":851389,"date":"2026-09-17T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851389\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T21:48:14","slug":"joey-porter-jr-exits-thursday-practice-early-with-medical-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851389\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey Porter Jr. exits Thursday practice early with medical staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy told reporters earlier on Thursday that cornerback Joey Porter Jr. was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/mike-mccarthy-joey-porter-jr-slated-to-do-more-today-than-he-did-yesterday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">scheduled to do more at practice<\/a> than he did on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>But things have changed. <\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reporters on the scene, Porter exited practice with a trainer during the portion of the session open to media. <\/p>\n<p>Porter went through the team stretch and some individual drills before exiting the session.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Porter was listed as limited \u2014 but not for the back injury he was limited with last week. Instead, he was listed on Wednesday as non-injury-related\/conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters note that there was no further update immediately available from the Steelers on Porter as he left practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy told reporters earlier on Thursday that cornerback Joey Porter Jr. was scheduled to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-851389","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\/851389","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=851389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}