Through the first three games in his career, rookie CB Joey Porter Jr. has not played a single snap on defense that wasn’t either as a dime defender or as an injury fill-in. That has still translated into 48 defensive snaps and an increasing amount of work, but that’s not a sustainable model for progressive exposure. His snap count has only gone up because dime usage has gone up due to in-game circumstances.
It leaves one to wonder when we might see him contributing more for his own merits in a bigger role. He’s generally held his own when he has been in the game, and he’s even made some big plays, particularly in the second game, with a key pass defensed and on the final competitive play in coverage to force a turnover on downs.