As we do every week to prepare you for the upcoming game, we give you our X factor of the week. Sometimes it’s a player, unit, concept or scheme. Here’s our Pittsburgh Steelers X factor against the Detroit Lions.
STEELERS VS LIONS X FACTOR: CB JOEY PORTER JR.
With some of the penalties he’s accrued throughout the year and the overall problems the Steelers have faced defensively, Joey Porter Jr. isn’t quite getting all the credit he deserves. And he really should be getting that credit, because he’s having a career-best year in many areas.