Steelers' Joey Porter Jr. Ready for Big Role as Jalen Ramsey Heals | Patrick Queen Steps Up to Lead

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Steelers finally get back Joey Porter Jr. just in time as Jalen Ramsey is set to miss games due to injury. But is he ready for the major cornerback role he'll have without Ramsey on the field?

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0:00.0	The good news for the Steelers is Joey Porter Jr.'s back.
0:04.6	The bad news is Jalen Ramsey's not.
0:07.0	So what do they do in the secondary moving forward?
0:09.3	We talk about that and more here on the Locked on Steelers podcast.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Chris Carter.
0:13.0	Let's get into it.
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0:55.7	You know him, you love him from SteelersNow.com. Alan, Alan joins us here. Alan, the Steelers got to, did their sort of walk through early week, by week practice that they do normally on Mondays coming off of a by week. And Joey Porter Jr. was back in action. We got to talk to him.
1:14.9	We'll get to a clip of him in the second. So good news that the secondary is getting him back, but they're also probably not getting Jalen Ramsey for a couple games. He had a hamstring injury in that,
1:20.3	in the, that Ireland game against the Vikings. What's your outlook for this secondary and what
1:26.3	they're going to have to do and what it's
1:28.2	going to be like with basically swapping you know the guy that you know a guy and joey porter you
1:33.8	want to be the number one cornerback and the guy who kind of has been the number one cornerback
1:37.3	well i mean i think the versatility of ramsie is hard to replace i think they'll try to use
1:43.7	brand neckles to do that.
1:45.5	But it's difficult to put anybody, any one person into the role that Ramsey has been doing.
1:52.3	I think it's impossible, actually.
1:54.1	I don't think there's anybody you can just give that job to.
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