The Porter NFL family has never been short on confidence. Pittsburgh Steelers great Joey Porter Sr. built an entire prolific playing career — filled with Pro Bowls, All-Pros, and a Super Bowl — around trash talk and extremely high belief in his own talents.
His son, Joey Porter Jr., is unsurprisingly doing the same.
After a Pittsburgh OTA practice last week, a confident Porter said he’s already the NFL’s best cornerback. Mind you, the boundary defender has not made a single Pro Bowl or All-Pro team yet, and he’s only entering his second year in the league.
But that’s how the Porters operate. They try to get ahead of the curve. They try to speak things into existence:
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So his answer was pretty much a given when he was asked, “Who is the best cornerback in the NFL?”“Me for sure,” Porter said following an OTA practice last week …
“There are a lot of good DBs in this league,” Porter said. “Nobody was doing what I was doing going against WR1s the entire year and locking him down. I don’t care if I am mentioned in there or not because they are going to hear my name eventually.”
Porter’s comments are only brazen because he hasn’t really achieved anything notable quite yet. He has the talent and pedigree to be an elite cornerback and may well play like that this season on a stout Pittsburgh defense. It wouldn’t be shocking to see his play rise into the stratosphere very soon.
But for now, he sounds like his dad. And that’s not a bad thing, considering where his dad’s NFL career ended up.