After being selected in the second round of the 2023 NFL Draft, CB Joey Porter Jr. had to wait almost half the season before being handed the starting position. He was behind CB Levi Wallace and CB Patrick Peterson on the depth chart and didn’t crack the starting lineup until Week Eight due to a Wallace injury. The following week against the Tennessee Titans he started his second game, but this time he asked head coach Mike Tomlin if he could follow WR DeAndre Hopkins.
At the time, Tomlin thought his request to follow Hopkins was crazy, but Porter ended up shutting him down.