{"id":39063,"date":"2025-04-07T01:50:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T01:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=39063"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T01:50:47","slug":"breaking-new-steelers-cornerback-reveals-mentoring-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=39063","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: New Steelers&#8217; Cornerback Reveals Mentoring Role.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m-detail-header--dek\">The Pittsburgh Steelers new star says he is going to help Joey Porter Jr. fix his game.<\/div>\n<div class=\"m-detail-header--flexbox\">\n<div class=\"m-detail-header--meta\">\n<div class=\"m-description--list\">\n<p>Young\u00a0Pittsburgh Steelers\u00a0cornerback Joey Porter Jr. has the makings of a star, but veteran cornerback Darius Slay Jr. thinks that he has a few things in his game that he needs to fix.<\/p>\n<p>On his\u00a0<em>Big Play Slay<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>podcast, the brand new Steeler talked a bit about Porter, and seems more than willing to take him under his wing and teach him everything that he knows.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"ql-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DI3aDGBAV8M?showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m gonna make sure to get him right,&#8221; Slay said. &#8220;I told him, I watched him, and he does that cinch-in-step where he gets it. Now, he\u2019s just gotta work on being better down the field. I watched his film, they were calling him for a lot of aggressiveness down there with the pass interference. I\u2019m gonna tell him, \u2018You beat him at the line. Just cut him off and now you\u2019re the receiver. Go get the ball now.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Porter has been known to get pretty handsy when he gets down the field, and the referees were cracking down on him this past season. 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