In the Pittsburgh Steelers Week Nine win over the Tennessee Titans, rookie CB Joey Porter Jr. took on the assignment of shadowing Tennessee WR DeAndre Hopkins. Porter shut him down, with his performance garnering praise from defensive coordinator Teryl Austin, who also said the Steelers want Porter to turn into a corner who can shadow and cover the other team’s top threat routinely.
“I think what happened is he liked that, and we thought that match-up would be good based on how we were doing some coverage things. Hop is a bigger receiver. He’s a bigger guy, kind of matches up with him.