Joey Porter Jr Contract

I don't think the Steelers will pay him an APY of 32 million, for that kind of money you better be an All-Pro with 5-6 interceptions a season.

 

Not sure, but whatever they do , they need to keep him.

 

UGH not worth it

 

Something from another team. After all I keep hearing how the team’s hands are tied by the Watt contract. The sky is falling. Porter will be a Raven.

 

My dudes, don't be jinxing us.

 

They can't even afford their center.

 

That's a lot of cheddar for a guy with only 1 INT last season. Heck, he only has 3 career INTs in 47 career games. That's an INT per game rate of 0.06 which is 4-5 times worse than elite CBs. If he wants to be the highest paid CB in the league, let him do it elsewhere. I'd give him an extension but $32M a year? That's nuts.

 

This is a "make an offer and let him test the market" situation IMO. A reasonable offer, not crazy low or high.

We are not contending for a Super Bowl until we get a franchise QB anyway.

Spend on the O-line, capable receiver, and keep some powder dry. Not spend a bunch on one guy.

One shut-down corner does not make you a contender.

 

I'll see how the new defensive scheme is. Because if it's what the new coach did with his old team, I dont see porter working out to getting a new contract.

 

OK, I will bite. Where are they getting the $32 million number from?

Right now not a single CB in the league is averaging over $30 million. Only 8 CBs are being paid over $20 million.

 

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Three years ago....reddit got the twitter account to post a made up story:

OTC has Port at $20 million annually. https://overthecap.com/player/joey-porter-jr/10856

 

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Right!!
I mean interceptions in the end are basically the other team just handing it over to the defense.
The defense in no way put effort into acquiring the ball.
15 interceptions last season total and our LBs were among the top with 2 a piece.

My thing isn't the ints, dfp, pbu, or sacks

he has improved yet nowhere near the 15 int/yr I predicted when we drafted him

but

32 million ??? LOL PUHLEASE not worth it.

Hope his dad stays out of it. Dog knows, they don't need him beating anyone up at the table.

 

I would give him 20 x year

 

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/contracts/_/year/2025/position/cb

That is all the CB contracts signed last year. With a rising cap, anything signed moving forward will be MORE than those numbers.

I feel like slotting Porter above Jaycee Horn and below Stingley feels accurate for his play. So....best case the Steelers talk everyone into $28 million. Worst case, they pay an upcharge for the higher cap and get it done at $30.

Honestly, the more you look into it....the less ridiculous that $32 million number seems -- despite the source!

 

Current highest AAV for CBs appears to be ~ $30MM / year.

I do think Porter has been very good. But I don't know that he would become the highest paid CB in the league without ever having made a probowl.

But cap inflation is both powerful and real. So he'll get paid a lot of money.

I'd hope to keep it under $30MM / year though.

If it's > $30MM, I hope that we win on other aspects of the deal (e.g., structure, length, guarantees). And that it's not like Watt's deal where we lost basically every facet.

Some numbers to think about how we might get to some kind of estimate (numbers after year 2 could be totally off).

Current franchise value for CBs appears to be something like $21.5MM.

We could say that we can say that we'd tag him at $21.5MM and then again with a 20% raise ($25.8MM). Then he'd get something that looks like the cap inflated market rate after that.

So the first two years of the deal should cost the team something under that $47.5MM.

I'd prefer to get a 5 year deal here but let's say they would rather do a 4 year.

Then maybe we say something like we'd give him $32MM then $35MM for those two years (these numbers might be too low because cap inflation has been really high recently).

Then total would be 21.5 + 25.8 + 32 + 35 ~ $114.3. To do the 4 years 128MM in the OP, you'd be giving another $5MM in each of years 3 and 4...since the first two years are fixed from the tag rules.

Over 4 years with my (made up) numbers, that's $28.5MM / year.

If it's 5 years (with the last year maybe at something like $38MM), then it becomes $152.3MM, or $30.5MM / year.

So I could see giving him something over $30MM if the contract if 5 years.

Contracts are basically never longer than 5 years because you can only amortize the cap hit over 5 years.